Nuc 1.1, you’ve encapsulated my exact feeling for the entire Windows 10 thing.
The interface from Win 95 to XP was fine. It was predictable, usable... it just worked. It was comforting in the fact that users could rely on things working the exact same way and seeing the same kinds of things in their interface for 20 years.
Like cars with steering wheels and 2 floor pedals. Put whatever you want under the hood; the user didn’t need to go back to school to know how to drive it.
I’m an old MS guy, used DOS back in the day, adopted Windows when it was 3.0 (remember File Manager and Program Manager? Those were the days...). Once I learned the ins and outs of Windows 95, MS could practically do no wrong in my eyes. It even dumped ideas and software that didn’t work without too much protest.
Then Gates left and Ballmer unleashed Windows 8.0. My God what a Charlie Foxtrot.
The Windows 10 interface was a compromise between 8 and the old 95-98-XP-7 interface. It, like all compromises, pleased very few people.
At least the codebase was slimmer and trimmer. Too bad it’s not 100%. I have yet to get DVD burners on any of my Windows 10 machines at home to work. I have to burn CDs and DVDs on a Linux box I have in a spare room. Before 10, the other machines burned DVDs just fine, then the 10 upgrade made it go BOOM! no more DVD burns.
I noticed copying or moving files and folders to other drives, even USB sticks, is much slower now too. Weird.
And after MS Edge decided it wanted to be the default browser, without the one feature that I loved on IE - the dropdown list of URLs most visited - I went over to Google Chrome, which has a whole other set of issues but is still preferable to Edge IMO.
I agree. MS-DOS I once had a book that taught one how to use it. Elephant drives, Osbourne’s, I’ sure you know the drill. We sure date ourselves FReeper. I guess I just don’t want to waste what is left of the rest of my life learning how to interface once again with a piece of electrified silicon. I am not going to do it. I’m not. God knows what Microsoft plans for enterprise work stations. At work we are using. 32 bit 7 and of course we are running out of memory for large documents and multitasking on individual work stations. It is a large company and going to 64 bit LANs and WANs will be quite expensive for them. Eventually everything will have to go to Windows 10 and the company will have to eat the lost productivity while everyone comes up to speed interfacing with the stuff. Hope I am fully retired by then.