Why is there a butthole on Stallman’s nameplate?
I banished Windows from my life a long time ago. My quality of life improved shortly thereafter. I had reached rock bottom after spending a day trying to unbugger my mother in law’s computer. It felt like waking up after a long bender in a pile of my own sick. She caused the pain herself because Windows invited it without guardrails - yet somehow I was holding the bag. I’m Windows-clean now and no longer offer to try (or agree) to help. I know the personal risks. I support you if you’re still enraptured by the Windows range and despair. I get it. Getting clean isn’t easy. Gather the strength.
My flatmate is now a Linux user. But it took her so long to make the switch. What finally did it was when she sat down at a default windows 11 PC that I was fixing and we just opened the start menu saw a ton of ads and software applications that weren’t installed and you had to pay for. I showed her that almost every single application has ads for products built in (co pilot buttons, one drive etc) and I said this is what you’re going to pay money to upgrade to.
She installed mint and loves it. (I hate it because mint has so many small issues that are fixed in newer versions and it uses x11)
React Native’s new architecture is not that bad.
You basically just got a single lightweight JavaScript thread that runs your rendering and updating logic, and then all the components are bound directly to underlying C++ native components.
I would still expect the start menu to be aiming for zero dependencies and as fast a start as humanly possible, but it’s not that crazy compared to something like Electron (which itself is not as inherently bad as most people make it out to be).
The real problem with slow web apps has less to do with the architecture of the apps, and more to do with them letting developers build apps really quickly and easily, meaning that you often have apps built by developers who don’t entirely know what they’re doing and introduce tons of inefficiencies like double rendering etc.
Yep it’s pretty bad…
I haven’t used windows in so long, the only thing I know about it is the incredibly high volume of complaints regarding it.
Yes, the most popular OS on the planets used by the most people on a daily basis, also has a high number of memes about it. Shocking. What information you’ve gleaned.
Being the single OS that has had a chokehold on the prebuilt computer industry for ages doesn’t mean it’s popular. It’s also used in tons of workplaces where people don’t have a choice. High number doesn’t automatically correlate to “popular.”
I didn’t mean like people’s choice popular, I just meant most used. The more something is used the more memes you’ll see about it’s issues.
For what it’s worth, just because something is popular does not mean it’s perfect, or even better.
I think a lot of the complaints about Windows 11 are overblown, but a lot aren’t. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh I don’t think it remotely is. I just find it irritating that someone sees lots of complaints about the most popular thing and takes that as an indication that it’s bad, and ignores the indication that it’s not (it being the most popular thing).
Lots of complaints about something popular literally means nothing on its own. The content of those complaints have validity, but there’s nothing to learn from their metadata.
Actually lots of complaints has meaning. It means lots of people have problems with it. It doesn’t mean anything else but this.
Yes. But if you have many complaints from MANY MANY users, it may not mean anything serious, it could still mean a very small fraction have problems. Absolute number means very little without context. That’s the purpose of the previous comment. Please note how it doesn’t say anything about qualities of Windows.
the most popular OS
It’s barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.
Fair point, I would argue that it’s not e entirely fair to compare a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility, for a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications, but it’s not entirely unfair either, they’re still both OSes and lots of the complaints have nothing to do with the burden of legacy support.
Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.
This is true, especially for games. But for some reason, even though some compatibility features have been removed from windows, others still remain. Hell, if you look into System32, you can still find the dialer app from windows 95 (still with its original icon, btw!), or Windows Vista’s “bubbles” screensaver, and they still run.
Edit: this is not a windows praise, it’s a critique. Those parts are dead weight, and windows isn’t even that good at offering compatibility for old software
a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility
I have an app built for Android 4 running on my Android 15 device. It looks ugly but it works. Of course other apps will not be so lucky, but some backwards compat is absolutely there.
a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications
Not really, Microsoft is steadily breaking old stuff. For example lot of 10-15 year old software that was doing something hardware-related would be broken now due to driver signing changes/restrictions (e.g. WinRing0 things).
Same here. I can’t figure out why anyone uses based on what I read.
i use win 11 and i can’t remember the last time i used the start button. there is no need.
I’m thinking that maybe I should upgrade my old Win 10 Pro laptop to Windows 11 Pro, “just in case”, instead of going full Linux everywhere.
And then I read shite like this.
You’re not making it easy for me Microsoft.
Linux everywhere and then Windows VM labeled “Shitty Spyware Do Not Open”
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Gosh, after all the hacks I do to Windows I often forget how terrible the experience is for all my users our there raw dogging it. 🪦
It’s WHAT?
It’s not that bad by default, it just gives it a disadvantage in terms of performance, but if you care about it you can still make it run smooth and be not-that-heavy. Microsoft just doesn’t.
Is right click menu one too? After boot, it always takes like 5 seconds for it to show up, recurring times it takes <1 second (not instant). I run last gen ryzen somethingsomethingXD and 4070 so my PC can definitely run a context menu.
On windows 11 or windows 10?
The <win10 context menu is old and poorly designed. Each app that declares itself on the right click menu gets to hold up the entire menu for like 3 seconds each. So if you have one poorly designed app that can appear on that list your right click menu will be super slow. Try to go through the right click menu and disable each app that appears one by one until you find the culprit.
Windows has this official tool, if you go to the explorer tab and find …/contextMenuHandlers section you can easily disable them one by one but i haven’t used it personally.
Win11 tried to fix this and moved to a different model but in doing so made the first level right click menu functionally useless.
Win11. I remember it being fine in Win10, though I didn’t have that many applications there, now I should have even less though.
Maybe I’ll look at what I have there now, in case I indeed have a misbehaving app.
Best thing about Windows 11 is that my hardware doesn’t support it
It probably does. Microsoft just tried to pull a fast one and get everyone to upgrade because windows 11 was just that great!
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My PC is 10 years old. It is not supported
And yet it’s somehow less awful than the Windows 10 start menu. Is it still improvement if you put the bar under the floor yourself?
Are you really asking?
No wonder why Windows is sluggish
I thought they were using winui or win32 ngl
