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Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by sgerenser »

snarfy wrote: post #74
pid-1 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I distro hop with my home laptops and use Windows at $JOB I've decided to install Windows 11 preview around June 2021 and have been using it ever since, so I could eventually help my coworkers, validate our workflows etc... I am curious on why people in HN dislike Win 11 so much. For me the upgrade was basically about minor UI changes, which I got used to in 1-2 weeks. I am a sysadmin / cloud whatever and it broke no…

Shell extensions are hidden under an additional click. Shell extensions have been a part of windows since at least windows 95. Right click -> "Open with 7-Zip" is no longer an option. Now it's right click -> more options -> "Open with 7-Zip". It's stupid.

Annoying, but can apparently be fixed with a registry setting: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/disable-show-more-options-cont...

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by Jerrrry »

schoolornot wrote: post #92
XCabbage wrote: post #63

> somebody at Microsoft edited a critical comment that I made earlier this week to simply read “hello there”, still under my name Moderators on web forums everywhere need to learn that this kind of editing, when done without a publicly visible indication that the post was edited against the nominal author's will, is unacceptable. I've gotten into this argument on Stack Exchange in the past (although fortunately on St…

I'm surprised it didn't kill Reddit when Steve Huffman pulled that stunt on the site: https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...

If it is against trump, it doesn't matter, it must be 'good', is an actual sentiment, felt by many, including the people drooling here.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by petee »

perlgeek wrote: post #52

It seems Feedback Hub is a way to give people the feeling that they have somewhere to be heard, without them actually making any difference. It's a bit like with online petitions: most people feel they have done something after signing a petition, but the vast majority of petitions don't change anything.

A big give away is they now mark your feedback as 'we have seen this, thanks' less than a minute after you post.

The link "what we do with your feedback" I'm sure is just Rick Astley

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by mavhc »

als0 wrote: post #61
pid-1 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I distro hop with my home laptops and use Windows at $JOB I've decided to install Windows 11 preview around June 2021 and have been using it ever since, so I could eventually help my coworkers, validate our workflows etc... I am curious on why people in HN dislike Win 11 so much. For me the upgrade was basically about minor UI changes, which I got used to in 1-2 weeks. I am a sysadmin / cloud whatever and it broke no…

People hate Windows 11 because Microsoft have decided that most hardware, including many powerful workstations, are not eligible to upgrade.

Yet if you do install Windows 11 on said hardware, it gives no warning that it's "unsupported"

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by mavhc »

blooalien wrote: post #29
skc wrote: post #23

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People have been predicting the demise of Microsoft for going on twenty years now. Gets old frankly. They are incredibly diversified. If anything, they themselves no longer see Windows as the crown jewel, which would explain more than a few HN gripes

People have been predicting "The Year of the Linux Desktop" forever now, too. Truth is, for some that'll never happen, and for others (like me) it happened many years ago.

No one cares about the desktop any more, and linux won the mobile race, in some fashion.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by password4321 »

Arisaka1 wrote: post #62
gandalfgreybeer wrote: post #47

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Whenever a game I play is released on the Nintendo Switch, I am a little bit happier (eg Diablo 3, Tetris Effect). There’s honestly nothing keeping me in Windows except for video games (which I have less and less time for each year). I’m sort of looking forward to the day I won’t need to play video games on Windows and just be happy with a MacBook and a Linux workstation.

I'm the same. My drive doesn't have enough space so I'm stuck using WSL2 for React/Node development, and I'm waiting for an unreleased game to see how it will perform on Linux before I make my permanent switch. Every other game I play is on Steam and have decent Proton support, or is a retro game where I can use Retroarch and PCSX2 natively.

> My drive doesn't have enough space

The recommendation here is to buy a larger drive (and a usb->sata adapter if necessary), clone to the new drive, and keep the old one as an offline backup!

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by munchbunny »

snarfy wrote: post #74
pid-1 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I distro hop with my home laptops and use Windows at $JOB I've decided to install Windows 11 preview around June 2021 and have been using it ever since, so I could eventually help my coworkers, validate our workflows etc... I am curious on why people in HN dislike Win 11 so much. For me the upgrade was basically about minor UI changes, which I got used to in 1-2 weeks. I am a sysadmin / cloud whatever and it broke no…

Shell extensions are hidden under an additional click. Shell extensions have been a part of windows since at least windows 95. Right click -> "Open with 7-Zip" is no longer an option. Now it's right click -> more options -> "Open with 7-Zip". It's stupid.

That reminds me, one small thing they changed that disproportionately annoys me. They moved copy/cut/paste in the right click menu from near the middle as three textual menu items to a single row of icon buttons at the bottom of the menu. Took me several minutes to figure out that’s what they did.

Why do that? It makes a smaller click/tap target for touchscreens, it’s genuinely hard to find and hides the discoverability of the keyboard shortcut, it’s inconsistent with in-app right click menu patterns, and it’s just inane for how many other little details could have been fixed instead.

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by jcpham2 »

Jaruzel wrote: post #44
suction wrote: post #5

Feedback Hub indeed seems to be useless - because it is designed to act as a sink hole. Yet the topic the author of this article and apparently hundreds of others are describing as a show-stopping miss of Windows 11: The ability to see open documents ungrouped on the task bar. That's not a "bug" which needs to be addressed directly by developers. And really? That alone is a reason to go through a harrowing downgrade…

I think Microsoft's preferred window navigation method is the Windows+tab combo, and from there you just click on the app/document you want. That said, it's had that sort of functionality forever, and I personally still never use it.

Windows key+tab user checking in to say yes this is how I find myself in a sea of combined Windows or alt+tab to just cycle until I find it. It isn’t ideal but it’s my default method ever since combining windows was introduced in 7, or 8, or Vista or wherever it began..

Re: Shenanigans on Microsoft Feedback Hub

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Post by TowerTall »

iamevn wrote: post #70
oblio wrote: post #66

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Wait, that doesn't sound right. You can't have multiple Word documents open at the same time in Windows 11?

Probably referring to this behavior from TFA: > Previously you could choose to “never combine” apps so you had one-click access to each document. Now you are required to use two mouse actions to open each. If you have "foo.txt" and "bar.txt" open in, say, notepad, you get one notepad icon on your taskbar that you click on once to open the list of windows and then once more to actually switch. Previously you could tel…

In windows 10, in a multimonitor setup with "never combined" enabled. If foo.txt is on the left monitor and bar.txt is on the right, the two icons in the taskbar almost always has opposite sort order compared to the the monitor layout.

Clicking the left icon bring up the document on the right monitor and clicking the icon to the right brings up the document on the left. You very often end up picking the wrong document and must do over. That pretty annoying.

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