Hi
I'm knarf
D'ya like me ?
No ?
buh bye
If it ain't user friendly, or continually demands I walk on eggs so I don't upset her pretty little head ... I don't want it.
I tried Linux a couple of times, not for me. I’m too braindead and lazy to even learn the vocabulary. Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook and Firefox take care of 99% of my computing needs on an XP system.
I’ve got Win 10 preview in VirtualBox on my MacBoo Pro. I haven’t played around with it much yet, but annoyance #1 (same as Windows 8) is that you can’t even create a single user account without creating or using a Windows ID.
I mean, I know Apple pushes you to get/use an Apple ID, but at least it’s optional and they give a clear means of bypassing it (as I have on a Mac Mini I use as a home theater hub). But it appears that Microsoft makes it mandatory, or at least doesn’t give you a clear option on how to proceed without it.
MacOS X, last time I used it, had similar problems with many applications. Admittedly, this was several years ago, so that may have changed. I tend to not use Apple products. I respect myself too much for that.
Not sure what he's talking about, other than making a gratuitous swipe at a rival that is typical of an O/S fanboy. I'm typing this on a new iMac with a 5K retina display and it's gorgeous and perfect. Every app works great on the 5K screen.
At this point in the development process, the UI “look and feel” is probably the least polished part of the package, so the author’s conclusions are not unexpected.
I asked it to find a web page by name in another drive. I might as well have asked it to find the square root of Pi! I ran searching and then disappeared.
Having a good-looking software store is pretty critical. And that's something still lacking in non-Android Linux-based systems right now. Even Ubuntu could use some serious improvements in its software store experience.
Wrong. Having a store is not even necessary for Windows, as everything you need is available, mostly for free, by just searching for it and using reputable sources. Easier and much more variety than Linux. I am still waiting for a real equivalent to AutoHotKey for Xubuntu that i use on a laptop.
In Windows 10, the Start Menu is back… kind of. There's no more full screen of animated tiles (Windows users dodged a bullet, there). But what Windows 10 has now isn't all that much better. Other than the fact that it's not, technically, full screen.
You can make it full screen by hitting the r. top arrow. But it is still too set up like for a kindergarten. Classic Shell is still an improvement even without the (don't call it) Metro UI.
Below is the difference btwn the default WTP start menu and classic shell. Which would you prefer? (You can nuke items in either one.)
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What Windows needs to do is to make the OS more customizable like Firefox. Linux is actually more so as regards window and desktop personalization, as W/8/10 offers less than W/9x/XP.
The Right Click Context Menu Extender should be standard. Also a clock like T-Clock , which shows seconds (which MS has yet to think was a worthy option after 15 years) and other options.
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Here is a neat tweak to add things to the Windows key and X shortcut (which itself is a plus for Win/8/10):
Does this mean that Windows 10 gets rid of that stupid “ribbon” menu and gos back to the simple, user-friendly menu?
You could, but you wouldn't be around long.
” Microsoft opted instead for a full-screen display of animated tiles, which, as every four-year-old can tell you, was both annoying and stupid.”
Running 8.1 on desktop and laptop. I use the non-tiled default. My wife loves her tiles.
As someone with two 4k monitors, I’m stoked about the HiDPI support. Some things in 8.1 and Linux are absolutely useless due to their micro-size. I ratcheted up the DPI scaling to 250%, and it helped, but some things are still micro.
I’m not looking at Win10 until it’s gone through the motions. I personally love the 8.1 Start menu and hate the idea of going back to the old school excessively large Start menu.
True linux users don’t use a GUI... I went there! ;-p They use a windows machine or a mac for play time.
In Windows 8, Microsoft killed the Start Menu – that simple, nested menu that let you find and launch applications (a paradigm used in operating systems since the days of the Pharaohs).
Well, since Windows 95. And, IIRC, there was a launcher thingee in OS/2 Warp.
And the right-click context menu was directly copied from OS/2.
Microsoft opted instead for a full-screen display of animated tiles, which, as every four-year-old can tell you, was both annoying and stupid.
Windows 8 is "of de debbil".
Luckily, the good folks at Microsoft provide a "full screen" button that makes this new Start Menu take up the entire screen. For those moments, I suppose, when you feel you could be more annoyed by the Start Menu… if only it took up your entire field of view.
M$ hired some of the Gnome 3 interface developers? The jump from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 was similarly jarring.
can keep the Windows fans at bay.
Windows users aren't that annoying. They're just completely oblivious to the existence of anything else.
I have to use windoze for my job - I have linux (well and some windoze at home). It’s not the UI or the features that drive me crazy with windoze - it’s windoze itself. How a process or the system itself can just take a nap and the whole system becomes unusable. And the lack of customization and key bindings as well. You can put lipstick on a pig OS but it’s still a pig OS.