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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In order to prevent malware from hijacking popular file extensions, anytime an application "improperly" tries to set itself as a default app, it will revert to the Windows 10 default instead. If you are having issues with this, it's probably bring caused by a legacy app or script doing something in a way that is no longer allowed.

Oh. That’s a bit subtle. Sounds like a good explanation though. Would be great if W10 logged this somewhere or in some other way gave the user a hint as to what is happening.

When that happens, you should get a notification that says something like:

> An app default was reset

> An app caused a problem with the default setting for .png files, so it was rest to Photos.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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>Truth to be told it's not a problem with HiDPI monitors but few people own them. It's almost 2020. Apple began shipping HiDPI in 2012. It's absolutely shameful that vendors are still shipping 1080p.

I don't know, what I find shameful is the insistance on a 16:9 aspect ratio. I could care less for the dpi, but an efficient workspace is all I want.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Very valid issues here. Although it has improved, Windows Update is still shockingly bad compared to any decent package manager used on Linux in the past 10+ years.

I never got into an intractable package issue with windows, where the dependencies were broke in a way where I had to crawl through logs and manually delete things to get them working. That’s happened to me a handful of times with Ubuntu and bad package configs.

I've had numerous unrecoverable blue screens after Windows Updates.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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I've started a list since getting my Win 10 machine at work: 1. Sometimes when I select the titlebar of a maximized window to move it to my second monitor it somehow selects the window under the one with focus. 2. For some applications (including MS Office ones) text is blurry when I move from laptop screen to external monitor. 4. Windows 10 ships with a python.exe in the path that opens the MS Store. Figuring out wh…

How on earth are you avoiding things like #2 on Debian? The only OS I've found that properly handles arbitrary DPI since day 1 has been Android.

Also you skipped #3 in your list

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In order to prevent malware from hijacking popular file extensions, anytime an application "improperly" tries to set itself as a default app, it will revert to the Windows 10 default instead. If you are having issues with this, it's probably bring caused by a legacy app or script doing something in a way that is no longer allowed.

Oh. That’s a bit subtle. Sounds like a good explanation though. Would be great if W10 logged this somewhere or in some other way gave the user a hint as to what is happening.

It does get logged and is viewable with the Event Viewer. Useful for sysadmins, but not end users.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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One positive point as the article points out is compatibility. This is the single reason Windows remains the staple of industry software, across almost all industries. It's particularly relevant in light of recent Mac OS X dropping 32-bit support. There are a lot of professionals whose livelihood depends on these older apps that either will never be updated or will take a very long time to do so.

I bet Wine is actually more compatible than Windows itself. Especially if you just look at software up to the Windows 7 era. Can you run Windows 3.1 programs on a modern 64-bit OS? With Wine it can be done.

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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Wine however, is awesome. For UI apps on Linux, I think Wine is a better platform than Qt/GTK/etc.

Wine is okay, but for me it generates lots of errors and overall is much slower compared to a native app. I'd much prefer a native Qt app than a Wine app.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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> Disable all apps from the Windows Store. damn I hate this. did the mistake to try Skype from the app, in a period where Skype for desktop had issues with for transfers, only to discover it's worse in every way, and now I'm stuck, unable to remove it out prevent it from start

Strange I was able to right click -> uninstall the skype store app from the start menu no problem.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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It's worth a mention just how buggy win10 has been for me. I don't spend much time working in windows, but every time I do I encounter one issue or another.

File explorer freezes / crashes.

There is that one empty folder on my desktop that I cannot delete because it is in use, but there is nothing in the folder and no program is conceivably using it.

There are occasional glitches with git. It wouldn't let me clone a git repo somewhere because it said the folder already existed. No such folder existed. Changing the destination name did nothing. Restarting fixed it.

There was a bug which kept rearranging the order of desktop icons, which was actually pretty annoying.

There is a bug that they seem to fix and then break with every other update. Basically, if I go fullscreen with some programs and two monitors set to mirror, the resolution zooms in and it's unusable. This is currently broken in the latest stable release.

Installs from the windows store almost always fail for no obvious reason.

I updated to 1909, or w/e the latest is, hoping that some of the isues I've encountered would be fixed. I've reinstalled the driver and tried fixing it but the USB wifi adapter that I have now no longer works (still works fine in Linux).

I could go on. That is with me going out of my way to not install much at all on the pc, because I know that installing things like tweaks to stop telemetry like the author suggests will lead to even more issues.

Contrast this to the experience I've had with Linux the past few years. It never crashes. Core programs like nemo (file explorer) do not freeze / crash. It updates without issue. I cannot think of a single issue i've had. The computer does exactly what I expect it to do. Stability is vital if you want to be productive.

I'm sure other folks have had the opposite experience. For me though, I am done with Windows.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Very valid issues here. Although it has improved, Windows Update is still shockingly bad compared to any decent package manager used on Linux in the past 10+ years.

I think this is inherently due to Windows registry and no enforced standards for Windows file system. In Linux, packages are generally reviewed to ensure they follow a set of practices to ensure that they use the appropriate directories. Then they simply have to extract the files/folders to install the application, and removing is as simple as deleting those directories/files. In Windows, you really never know what y…

I'll take the Windows Registry over an OS that litters my home directory with dot files, or even simply force me to create my own format of saving my settings (even ~/.settings is barely an improvement).

Saving your settings should be an API offered by the OS and the Windows Registry is pretty good at that.

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