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10 was bad 11 is a little better but no enough. With win10 they started with more annoying ads and the start menu with apps and the click bait news in the start menu
still leaps better than windows 8
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10 was bad 11 is a little better but no enough. With win10 they started with more annoying ads and the start menu with apps and the click bait news in the start menu
still leaps better than windows 8
I recall it being pretty mediocre at release, just a reskinned 8.1. 10 started to come into its own much later after NT10
Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again
I still remain naively hopeful and cheer them on, however.
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still leaps better than windows 8
Aside from the start menu no, not really. Windows 8 is the most performant operating system. No laggy animations (thanks to DirectUI), fast boot time, especially fast on older systems. Windows 10 started the whole lagfest.
As someone who builds desktop apps: Is there any reason I would use this over something cross-platform like EGUI? I am kind of over software being OS-specific; this is one of the biggest compatibility mistakes we've made. Along with the related process of making drawing pixels on a display a complicated process!
But it is used to implement various parts of Windows, such as the File Explorer, so any improvements are helpful for general system performance.
Will any of this translate to Windows programs like File Manager? Whatever their Image viewer is even called? For some ungodly reason, on my last remaining Windows Device, which is a Surface Book 2 (a Microsoft made laptop!) with very vanilla configurations, everything slows to a crawl in the file manager and if I try to view images on a directory and do the "right arrow" for next or "left arrow" key for previous. It…
> Will any of this translate to Windows programs like File Manager? Did you not read the thread? That's literally stated as an explicit goal.
Also seeing stuff like text fields re-implemented from scratch in XML scares me. I don't like to see that.
This might be off topic, but wish Apple would focused on Finder performance (app loading, window refresh, etc) like this blog post by Microsoft.
And in case you're curious, my disk is only using 250GB in use (50GB for Apps, 150GB for System Data, 50GB for macOS)