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Whenever I see "modern Windows experience", it always turns to be worse than the original one.
I take your point, and usually you're right, but in this case "modern features" includes things like having an "extract" button show up when you right click an archive file in Explorer.
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I migrated from 7-Zip to NanaZip, a fork with modern Windows features that the original developer refuses to implement. https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
modern windows features? I imagine an electron rewrite, with DirectX 12 and Copilot buttons everywhere
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> People die in car crashes. We can't eliminate those altogether, but at least we can take steps towards making things better, instead of telling them that maybe they should just not drive. Tough problems regardless. I agree with the sentiment but there are limits to what we can and should do. To stay with your analogy: We don't let people drive around without taking a test. In that test they have to prove that they…
> It's _your_ job to understand the basics I feel like this line of thinking is dangerous: people hit the wall hard when they don’t have sex ed, or financial education classes, or even basic classes on how to cook or do crafts (we had those in school, girls mostly cooked and the guys got to learn woodworking but also swapped sometimes; and later in university there were classes about work safety in general), or compu…
In the end that's fine. I have no idea how my car works and if the guy from the repair shop says that I need to pay for a new clutch then that's what I'm gonna do. I am aware that I don't have the knowledge to know whether or not I'm being scammed or not. But I _accept_ that because the alternative (getting to know a lot more details about a car) simply doesn't appeal to me.
If someone wants to use the same approach for everything he does on the internet then that's perfectly fine. But then he needs to accept the consequences as well.