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Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate 10. I'd rather have 7 again. It really sucks being forced to change OS when it's a bad switch, sucks even worse when it's because there's no choice.

I remember the day I built my PC and realized the only Windows OS most new games would run on was 10. So much bloat and useless crap, so many intuitive features gone or moved to obtuse places.

Microsoft is really good at enshittifying things and has been for the last decade or so. If only it wasn't about the money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At the risk of being unpopular, I think a lot of what people perceive as unintuitive or worse in terms of settings and OS features is just change. I'm on Enterprise Windows 11 at work and I wouldn't willingly go back to Windows 10.

I think because it's Enterprise I'm dodging a lot of the worst of it - ads, telemetry, surprise updates, etc - but the unified settings are better once you learn them, tabbed File Explorer is better, dark mode switching is way better - there's plenty to like.

I want to see the rise of the Linux desktop as much as anyone, but implying Windows 11 is all bad isn't that fair an assessment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I take issue with the settings menu still relying on the old menus while having shuffled things around so I'm forced to look for settings. I don't really bother with tabbed file explorer because it doesn't bother saving my last open folders. I can't speak to dark mode.

I can say that the start menu is horrendously slow, it can take up to 5 seconds for it to load. Sometimes keystrokes disappear in the start menu only to magically appear some time later. They made the right click menu worse and only changeable in regedit. They made RDP credentials only saveable using CMD. They removed vertical taskbars. There are a lot of issues in going to windows 11 for me.

I'm sure there are some improvements but at work we have a wiki page on how to unfuck up windows 11 so it works how you expect it to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Change is a big part of it certainly but the fact that Windows is coming dangerously close to only functioning online to serve you as many ads as possible and to extract more and more of your personal data to sell all the while owning a once not for profit AI company gives such megacorp vibes.

I'm really not going to be happy about being forced to switch because a high end pc built years ago is suddenly "outdated".

By no means is it Ultra 4K HD compatible but it can still run anything AAA just fine. There's no excuse for what Microsoft is doing in my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Agree with all of those points, I just don't love the reductive notion that every change is a bad change and nothing's been for the better. In several ways it's a better OS - but as you say, they are also getting more contemptuous of the end user with things like privacy, anticompetitivity, and ads.