The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets
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- 7 de Ago, 2024
Holy shit, that's amazing! GG to the paint.NET dev. I'm personally not a big fan of how "updoot-brained" he is about forcing updates on you, but I'm happy he finally got the domain. I had fallen for it many times myself.
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- 30 de Mar, 2023
Hopefully it sets a precedent that if you own a domain but not the trademarks of the domain then it's worthless to anyone but the trademark holder.
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- 20 de Oct, 2019
I have the latest Windows update and in the good news, the Start menu and apps do actually start up noticeably more quickly. I am as surprised as anybody else.
On the downside, the idiotic and crappy way search is handled in Windows explorer remains unchanged. Example: You search by name in a directory structure and some of the results are directories matching that name. Great - you click on one of those to open in a new tab in Explorer. What do you get in that new tab? The normal directory path? No. You get "Search Results". Or double click to enter that directory and the path above is still deriving from "Search results".
There is no clean way to get directly from a folder you have found via Search to a normal path for that folder. You have to right click on it, select "Copy as Path", go to either the current address bar in Explorer or one in a new tab, paste the result in, delete the quote marks from either end, then hit return. Now you have a normal file path that you can go up and down from, etc.
Idiocy.
On the downside, the idiotic and crappy way search is handled in Windows explorer remains unchanged. Example: You search by name in a directory structure and some of the results are directories matching that name. Great - you click on one of those to open in a new tab in Explorer. What do you get in that new tab? The normal directory path? No. You get "Search Results". Or double click to enter that directory and the path above is still deriving from "Search results".
There is no clean way to get directly from a folder you have found via Search to a normal path for that folder. You have to right click on it, select "Copy as Path", go to either the current address bar in Explorer or one in a new tab, paste the result in, delete the quote marks from either end, then hit return. Now you have a normal file path that you can go up and down from, etc.
Idiocy.
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- 19 de Abr, 2019
I had tried out the Experimental build from early May, and it was already like that. Menus would open noticeably faster. You still can't move the taskbar, though, am I right? I couldn't, and that build's number was 29591 — far ahead of whatever you might have got.
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- 20 de Oct, 2019
Still can't move the taskbar, correct. MS still have a long way to go. Not just on the outer parts of Windows like this, either, but down in the nuts and bolts compared to Linux as well. Honestly, their entire development process seems to have ground to a screeching halt sometime from around five years ago.
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- 30 de Abr, 2023
"Open file location"
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- 20 de Oct, 2019
Ah. Yes, that is better. Thanks. I was simply clicking on it in which case you're "in" a folder within a search results hierarchy. Still no clean way to just open it in a new tab, though - again, that has the search results as part of its hierarchy. Considerable room for improvement.
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- 30 de Abr, 2023
Yeah it's not a good experience. I wonder if there's a way to add a shell extension command to the registry to force the ability to open it in a new tab or window.
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- 15 de Nov, 2021
Right Click > Open Folder Location
It's silly that this isn't the default, but it's slightly easier than copy/paste the path.
I think that's about when they fired all their seniors. Hot trend in tech right now.
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- 13 de Sep, 2018
and the QA teams.
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- 15 de Nov, 2021
that was 12 years ago
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- 30 de Abr, 2023
My company did this a couple years ago. Lay off one 10yr+ engineer in the USA and hire 15 juniors in India in his place.
And it's going about as poorly as you'd expect.
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- 15 de Nov, 2021
engineers are like lego bricks
you see
one shitstained indian engineer is like 1/10 of an american senior so
just stack them up
same result
easy
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- 20 de Oct, 2019
Or to bring back that old Programming nugget of wisdom: "Management believe you can produce a baby in one month, by getting nine women pregnant."
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Most of my career I have either been the hero (I refuse now) or have seen most of the dev done by heroes.
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I have an extremely autistic conundrum.
I'm setting up a Win 10 laptop that has been airgapped since 2023.
Is there a way for me to install Microshaft Wangblows security updates without also accepting all the dogshit horseshit "features"?
If not, is there any downside to updating before I gut as much spyware/adware/bloatware/AI/garbage as possible with OOSU/Blackbird/WPD/etc? In other words, is there anything updates have added in the last few years that I can't easily get rid of?
I'm setting up a Win 10 laptop that has been airgapped since 2023.
Is there a way for me to install Microshaft Wangblows security updates without also accepting all the dogshit horseshit "features"?
If not, is there any downside to updating before I gut as much spyware/adware/bloatware/AI/garbage as possible with OOSU/Blackbird/WPD/etc? In other words, is there anything updates have added in the last few years that I can't easily get rid of?
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- 16 de Ene, 2021
If you want to stay on 10, I would suggest installing IoT version. It's less bloated and will receive monthly security updates for a few more years.
Orcinus Orca
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I dualbooted Linux Mint XFCE with Windows on my laptop i couple of weeks ago, and i'll state my pros and cons:
Pros:
- Linux Mint takes less space, and utilizes less resources.
- Most functions of Windows can be replicated normally by Linux Mint.
Cons:
- Weird-ass file system for Linux. USBs are OBVIOUSLY a separate disk, not even part of the operating system!
- Hypertechnical. Ohh, would you like the GAYNIGGERBALLS file manager or the HYPERTROPHIC BANANADICKSHIT DE (HBDDE)?
I do this
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- 30 de Abr, 2023
Once you get out of the functions that can be replicated by a Chromebook I find it starts to get a lot more annoying.
For ex, if I want to burn an ISO to a disc in Windows I use ImgBurn, it's pretty well the gold standard. On Linux? I am advised to use `dd` or to hope K3B wants to work.