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>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities TIL those exist (genuinely). I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
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There are genuinely some great power toys available.
Definitely! I couldn't live without the "Quick Accent" PowerToys to quickly add accents that don't exist on my keyboard, I use it hundreds of times a day.
And typing ALT 0151 to get an em dash, I mean seriously?
For someone typing accents and em + en dashes on purpose — well before it becomes an AI’s trait — it’s so infuriating, I can’t believe people type books on Windows. All this while macOS solved this, built in the OS, since ages now…
I've done it before on Windows 7. Resized system clock, resized start menu button, removed "Terminate batch job (Y/N)?" warning in cmd, etc.
Most annoying is that VirtualBox stops working with the patched uxtheme.dll.
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Life on Linux is great. My modifications stick for as long as I want. Permanently if I get my patches upstream.
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> MS Word is properly great if you only use the custom style rules (basically CSS classes) at the paragraph level, and never directly apply styling (basically inline styles) except for super basic stuff like making a word italic MS word also has character styles (like a CSS style on a ). IMO you should use instead of bold or italic. (There are three more types of styles: linked, table and List. See https://office-wat…
I'm aware, but Word's notorious "I clicked one button and it ruined the formatting of my entire document" stuff doesn't happen if you mark a word as italic or bold here and there in the middle of a sentence. The whole point of only using the style rules is to prevent it doing that. But yeah for layout , ie headings and the likes, only ever use the styles, never "bold, bigger bigger bigger". Don't touch the line spaci…
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There are people like this, although very small minority. I've met one at university - he was probably the first person to have Windows 8 laptop with a touchscreen, showing off to everyone how cool is was (at that time). He was also really good at Microsoft Word, unironically - he made extensive use of custom styling and could format an assignment paper in like 30 seconds. He was super useful in group projects.
Wow it sounds like you're describing exactly me. All the way until the touchscreen laptop with Windows 8. Scary shit! I used to laugh at the LaTeX masochists in college spending 15 minutes just to put a picture where they wanted the picture to be. They had to add like four 1-character modifiers to the "insert image" command, each of which meant "yes, really here", "no, don't move it to the next page" and "nono, reall…
>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities TIL those exist (genuinely). I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
I was a Windows modding enthusiast until I tried Linux and the modding there was superior (and then compiz appeared). These days whenever I use Windows I install bash and use a terminal so I don't really care about the window management, other than maximizing windows.
And then I use my touchpad to switch between virtual desktops and the jerky animation reminds me why I prefer to run non-game Windows applications remotely from a Mac.