Just today when trying to run Forza Horizon 5 from a new laptop I got an Xbox login popup with some QR code I was supposed to scan but the window was super small and I wasn't able to resize it to actually see the full QR code. One has to wonder what is going on with Microsoft if things like these pass they "quality" checks.
Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
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Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#72Yesterday I discovered that Windows 11 has two right click menues that appear depending on where you click on a file???
I despise W11.
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of. The biggest problem with Vista is you had a lot of Windows XP computers running happily on 256 and 512MB of ram. That made updating to Vista REALLY painful to a lot of people. I think people forget about how little resources 95, 98, and XP needed to run. XP was also criticized for being a ho…
I don't think we should excuse Microsoft for bloating Windows because memory became abundant.
A lot of that bloat is due to compatibility and the 32bit -> 64bit transition.
Linux has suffered from the 32/64 bit problem as well for quite some time. The only difference is because of opensource it's been easier to slowly kill off the 32bit ecosystem.
That's not been an option for windows.
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of. The biggest problem with Vista is you had a lot of Windows XP computers running happily on 256 and 512MB of ram. That made updating to Vista REALLY painful to a lot of people. I think people forget about how little resources 95, 98, and XP needed to run. XP was also criticized for being a ho…
>Windows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of. Not really, Windows 7 had a lot of work poured into it, fixing Vista issues. Even first public betas of W7 were more polished than any of Windows 8..11 releases. That includes work on minimal amount of "noise" notifications, driver issues, speed, design etc
Basically all of those fixes were applied to Vista before the 7 beta. There were some rough parts to Vista's released, but a lot of those were polished by SP1 and SP2.
The reason the W7 beta went so well is because it was already just based on later versions of Vista.
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#75I'm not being factious, but is there any Linux distro with a desktop experience that matches Windows and macos? Like, yes, I know there are many flaws with both. A lot of sound, technical issues with windows and macos. A slew of UX ones as well. But despite W11 carrying around remnants of Windows 98 still, both of those OSes _feel nice_. Multiple desktops work well, nice gestures, simple installers and applications.…
> Multiple desktops work well, nice gestures, simple installers and applications.
Multiple desktops on Windows is not a nice experience for me. When you switch the desktop on one display then they ALL change for every display. I need them independent ala macOS or it is just so infuriating to use. Win11 also has big Fisher Price sized title bars now and macOS Tahoe isn't far behind. I think the GUI designers are on magic mushrooms when coming up with these designs.
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#76With as much telemetry and unwanted features, one would be forgiven to find the actual OS under it all.
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If hating Microslop was an Olympic sport I'd be on the podium every 4 years, To be fair, I agree they are overdue for a truly awful release. I mean, there was Windows Me and then 7 years later Windows Vista. Those were truly Gold medal awful podium releases. Even with Windows 11 I don't think we've hit that level in the cycle just yet.
Absolutely not. ME was unstable but had charm, it deserved a lot of the dislike because NT was just so good ... and they really should not have removed Real-Mode; that would have been the reason to use ME over NT2000... Vista though? If you genuinely gave me a patched Vista and said that it was a viable alternative to 11... I would 100% take that 10/10 times. Vista's problem was that it was heavy and people sold devi…
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
The purpose of Notepad, for Microsoft, is that it is an experimental playground, and always has been. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180521-00/?p=98...
I know who runs that blog, but that's a really exaggerated take. Notepad has had nearly identical UX from Windows 1.0 until 10. Sure, there's a search feature that appeared at some point, ditto with the status bar, at some point they made it able to open files larger than 64K, and apparently you can open files from URLs directly? Five or so noticable changes in an extremely lightweight and utilitarian application in…
To wit: "Second was how he got Notepad to load files so quickly"
So much for that
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#79ExplorerPatcher fixes everything I hate about Win11
Re: Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
#80Hate is a weak word, basic stuff like notepad, snipping tool or terminal don't even work today https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-...
My most recent astonishment was they've shoved copilot into notepad. Why did they get rid of Wordpad and ruin notepad again? It's like they've forgotten the entire purpose of Task Manager, Notepad, etc. Then again (gestures at World Economic Forum today)...feels like I'm mainlining crazy pills these days.
Wordpad confused too many people looking for Word and not finding Microsoft 365 for Family Workgroups Home Edition, especially after they boosted Windows 10 Wordpad to have enough features/power to replace the lost word processor of Microsoft Works, so it was removed.