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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by Fizz43 »

drnick1 wrote: post #160
cheschire wrote: post #45

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When things randomly break in my Linux install, I fire up Claude

Not sure why people are downvoting this. LLMs have made Linux far more accessible than before.

I highly doubt this. As someone who is pretty active in a lot of beginner linux communities its becoming the case that a lot issues are caused by users following LLM instructions and creating issues where there were none.

Example someone will want to configure something and the LLM will give them advice from the wrong distro thats 5 years out of date. If they asked a person or looked on the fourms they'd have got what they wanted in a few mins. Instead they go down a rabbit hole where an LLM feeds them worse and worse advice trying to fix the mountain of issues its building up.

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by p_ing »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #243
p_ing wrote: post #111

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> I used a .reg file to disable the new context menu. Complaints about Win 11 performance abound. Brings back slow context menu. The purpose of the new context menu is to get rid of the COM init that made it so slow!

I haven't noticed slowness in the right click menu on <= windows 10. On Windows 11 it's slower simply because I have to open a second menu to get to what I want.

You've not had WinRAR, 7Zip, TortoiseSVN, et. al. as COM extensions, I see ;-)

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by p_ing »

odie5533 wrote: post #233
p_ing wrote: post #221

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I would expect Microsoft to relegate little used features to CLI rather than figure out how to integrate them into the UX.

Depends if they want their OS to be easy to use with wide appeal like macOS, or a CLI nightmare like Arch.

I have to use xattr -c on every "untrusted" binary in macOS just in order to run it. So much for easy to use with wide appeal...

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by snielson »

I'm not a developer, but I consider myself relatively tech literate. That said, I really like Windows 11 and many other MS products such as M365, Edge, new Outlook, One Drive, and even Teams is tolerable (maybe not as polished as Zoom). Copilot is still struggling to find relevance, but I just chalk that up to MS pivoting rapidly to figure out how to make it useful (I currently use the enterprise version solely to draft emails, which is a huge time saver even if it is a bit pricey at $30/mo). The complaints I see on here so frequently just don't register with me. For example, I never see any ads. Maybe there is a setting I turned off long ago, but I cannot recall ever seeing an ad. The setting must be persistent with my Windows backups because no ads show when I reinstall Windows and restore the settings and configuration from a backup. Things are not always perfect, but the issues I have encountered are relatively minor all things considered.

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by eboy »

ksynwa wrote: post #142

For me the strange and unproductive direction Windows is going towards in encapsulated in the right-click menu in the file manager (Explorer). 11 has a shiny new menu that shows up when you right click. But it is a new coat of paint over the ones from 10 or before. Additional options from for example 7zip don't show up in it. You have to click "more options" at the bottom which them reveals the old menu. There is no…

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Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by lll-o-lll »

tavavex wrote: post #118
autoexec wrote: post #109

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I really hate what they've done to notepad. The entire point of the program was that it was extremely basic. There's zero reason to use it now over something much better like notepad++

The absolutely insane addition of the Copilot button aside, new Notepad did have some improvements that I liked. Tabs are one, but another overlooked feature is that it now keeps track of its state and maintains all the unsaved files that are open in it, allowing me to use it as a momentary place to jot down things that I want to remember but that I don't want to save in a txt file. Basically, like more full-fledged…

> another overlooked feature is that it now keeps track of its state and maintains all the unsaved files that are open in it, allowing me to use it as a momentary place to jot down things that I want to remember but that I don't want to save in a txt file.

There are plenty of apps that do exactly this. Sublime was the best of them that I know.

Notepad was great for the opposite reason. It is ephemeral. I can use it as a scratch pad for passwords and what not, with the comfortable knowledge that it’s all cleared away next reboot.

You can bring classic notepad back, it’s still there, so that’s what I do.

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by wilsonnb3 »

tavavex wrote: post #124
trinix912 wrote: post #69

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So basically rented mainframes like IBM did in the '60s but with ads? I agree about free software but that only works as long as the hardware doesn't get too closed down. At some point even reverse engineering won't keep up with it. We need more free/libre hardware.

The rented mainframes were, imo, far less egregious than what's awaiting all of us. It'd probably be less "massive B2B transactions to cut down on costs and outsource operating a hugely complex machine to its manufacturer", and more "everyone participating in society making mandatory perpetual payments to be allowed to use tightly-controlled devices that they must manage their entire lives through".

> making mandatory perpetual payments to be allowed to use tightly-controlled devices that they must manage their entire lives through

This is the mainframe experience for companies that run on z/OS, the licensing makes Azure look simple by comparison

https://ibmlicensingexperts.com/ibm-mainframe-licensing-z-sy...

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by jiggawatts »

SirMaster wrote: post #212
ksynwa wrote: post #142

For me the strange and unproductive direction Windows is going towards in encapsulated in the right-click menu in the file manager (Explorer). 11 has a shiny new menu that shows up when you right click. But it is a new coat of paint over the ones from 10 or before. Additional options from for example 7zip don't show up in it. You have to click "more options" at the bottom which them reveals the old menu. There is no…

Apps not showing up in the new menu is because the app has not updated to support the new menu. I am seeing third party apps in my Windows 11 right click menu such as WinMerge.

You mean like Microsoft's own apps? Like... all of them?

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by jiggawatts »

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #241
badc0ffee wrote: post #231

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I think part of it is that creating a process is cheap in Unix-style OSs, and expensive in Windows. Windows doesn't want you to exec gcc, cpp, ld, etc. over and over again. It wants you to run an IDE that does it all in one process.

How many IDEs run it all in one process? As far as I know they still call lots of processes.

Visual Studio calls just one (msbuild) for almost all of the compilation process, perhaps half a dozen processes at most. Certainly not hundreds to thousands, as typically seen under Linux.

Re: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

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Post by coldtea »

robertoandred wrote: post #59
coldtea wrote: post #42

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Because there aren't so many great alternatives. There's MacOS, which requires expensive dongles (an Apple computer), and has some of its own systemic issues. And there's Linux, in different subtly incompatible distros, with its own share of problems, and a non-starter if you need and/or want to use many proprietary staples, from the Creative Suite to video, music, and business apps...

Windows doesn't require a computer?

One of a generic PC-compatible machine, available in all kinds of prices, with all kinds of specs, from all kinds of vendors - one of which you likely already own anyway.
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