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Our commitment to Windows quality

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Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by VerifiedReports »

anonymars wrote: post #923
VerifiedReports wrote: post #655

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Windows USED to have a polished UX. Is it still better than most Linux distros? Maybe. But it has regressed so far from where it was 25 (or more) years ago that every day I'm still infuriated and depressed that I've had to return to it for work. The idiotic UI blunders alone must waste hours of my life per week. Aside from the absolutely baffling functionality removals, there are the hateful petty ones. Great example…

What about Remote Assistance (built-in)?

It's not built in anymore. Microsoft took it away.

I can't remember exactly what the last name was that they gave the remote-assistance tool, but they removed it from all but so-called "pro" Windows... the one used by the LEAST-likely people to need it.

More anti-user BS from Microsoft. The baffling aspect is how Microsoft thinks it benefits from screwing users like this. I can't wait to buy my parents a Neo and shitcan Windows from their home forever.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by canucker2016 »

vrighter wrote: post #981
canucker2016 wrote: post #900

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> ... the start button is somehow in the middle of the screen ... If you take a look at the size of widescreen monitors, you can kinda guess why someone decided to move the start button/menu to the middle of the screen. I know Samsung and Dell have ginmorous 49 inch monitors. Start menu that pops up from the lower left corner of the monitor would be a bad UX - the user might not even notice that a menu had popped up…

the user would most definitely notice a menu popped up. Because they clicked it themselves

Tapping the Windows key on the keyboard can also bring up the Start menu (or another key combo like WindowsKey+X brings up the Power User/WinX menu ).

With the Windows Key next to the Alt key on many keyboards, the user could press the Windows Key accidentally when they wanted to press the Alt key.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by ben-schaaf »

fyredge wrote: post #665
ben-schaaf wrote: post #387

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> Put your non-programmer relative in front of each, have them do some common simple tasks, like print an email on their printer, and ask them. My grandma does this all the time from her Linux laptop. My grandpa needed help getting it to work the first time under Windows.

This sounds disingenuous. How does your grandma fare on Windows? Can your grandpa even navigate Linux? For all I know, your grandma could be a HN user and your grandpa a plumber.

She's significantly worse with technology than he is. Neither could tell you what an operating system is. These are exactly the type of average people that supposedly Linux isn't good enough for.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by jaimex2 »

jaimex2 wrote: post #763
PaulKeeble wrote: post #469

Microsoft has spent over a decade swimming against their users interests at this point and during that time frame Linux has been improving its desktop and improving kernel performance. We are now at the point where Linux emulating Window's entire API space for games with worse drivers is dangerously close on performance with none of the privacy invasion and anti user features. Its pretty late in the game for them to…

It's been 10 years since I booted Windows or MacOS. It's been fantastic. People always find an excuse but really they are doing themselves a disservice.

Microslop employees down voting - lol

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by gnarlouse »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #874
gnarlouse wrote: post #719

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Apple achieved it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple then spent ~15 years un-achieving it. It started with iOS 7, and has culminated in the Liquid (Gl)ass era: a mess of unintuitive menus, terrible and inconsistent UI patterns, the lobotomite twins Siri & Apple Intelligence. Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.

Snow Leopard was riddled with bugs. Take a look at all the updates it had following its release to confirm that.

Was it? I remember it being a pretty solid experience.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by azv_ »

After downgrading from Windows 11 to 10 last year, I got rid of my last Windows PC in favor of Mac mini. It's too late for me, I lost all remaining trust in MS, I'm not looking back. I might get the Steam machine if it's well received after release.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by wasmperson »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #384
wnevets wrote: post #350

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Its one of the first things I turn off.

How? I feel like every time I do my ~1 yearly Windows reinstall I need to google it and then alter half a dozen registry keys and a bunch of group policy settings, and some of them are the "old" settings now replaced with something even more vaguely named (probably on purpose).

It's been a while but from what I remember the easiest way to block this was by disallowing outbound network requests from search/the start menu in the firewall settings. It worked across all versions of Windows I tried it on.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by frankzinger »

toraway wrote: post #971
halJordan wrote: post #954

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It's definitely not bad luck. It's entirely a driven chosen situation. Read the blog post. They're not improving quality there reverting anti-end user decisions. "Quieter defaults," "more control over widgets" There's zero intention to improve the fundamentals of the os. These are what a smart group thinks will be the smallest concession to retain goodwill. Come off it with "bad luck"

Look at the names, the parent comment is implying hiring Indians destroyed Microsoft with a wink/nudge. And conspicuously omitting Phil Spencer who led the deteriorating Xbox/gaming division for almost a decade but instead chose to include Spencer's replacement of 1 month and some Xbox PM because his ethnicity wouldn't fit.

Not sure why this is being downvoted. That comment was clearly implying Indians ruined MS.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by lostmsu »

xnx wrote: post #909
deng wrote: post #225

If you want to know how serious to take this, just look at this gem: > Enhancing Search: [...] Clearer and more trustworthy results, with results from content on your device easy to understand and clearly distinct from web results So yeah, you still get web results in your search bar, a feature absolutely zero people want and which is just there to fake Bing success, just with a little divider now next to the applica…

It's crazy when the option to integrate Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ ) is right there.

To be fair Everything is heavy. 400MB on my current machine.

Re: Our commitment to Windows quality

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Post by xnx »

lostmsu wrote: post #999
xnx wrote: post #909

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It's crazy when the option to integrate Everything ( https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ ) is right there.

To be fair Everything is heavy. 400MB on my current machine.

470 MB. Probably proportional to index size? For me, it's a good use of available memory.
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