I'm hearing a lotta bitchin' about Windows and not enough uninstalling.
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survivorship bias - those who have uninstalled, are not bitching about windows anymore
Can personally confirm, linux has been such a blissful experience all the frustration just evaporated, no need for such reckless hate.
I typed "add or remove programs" which is verbatim the name of the shortcut, clicked enter, and it searched Bing for the phrase.
Windows search bar is useless.
If anyone wants a fix for this, yes I know Windows sucks etc, I have to use it for my job:
Press Win + R, type gpedit.msc, and hit Enter.
Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search.
Double-click Do not allow web search and set it to Enabled.
Double-click Don't search the web or display web results in Search and set it to Enabled.
Click Apply and OK.
Why do people still suggest using Group Policy for this?
It's complicated for the average user, it's non-existent for the vast majority (Windows Home doesn't give access to gpedit.msc).
Just go Search -> Settings -> turn off Web Search, like a normal person. Job done.
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If this comment was suggesting a Linux command to fix an issue on Reddit, rather than Windows aerobics on Lemmy, it'd have a thousand comments about how Linux is not ready for end users because nobody wants to browse obscure options to fix usability problems.
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Stop trying to use your computer and get back to consuming damn it. Why are users so difficult!
I remember how the startmenu didnt suck on windows 7 and just worked. Good times. That was also the last time where you could find most of the options in one place.
Like in 2015 i was weirded out how a multibillion dollar company wasnt able to just make a new app for settings with feature parity to the old thing for their major new OS release. 10 years later: lmao.
Even the windows 10 startmenu didn't suck if you took the time to customize it - The Metro tiles were nice, with grouping and folders making everything pretty neat and reducing the need for the standard program list to a minimum; I made mine 3 columns wide, which made pretty much every app i regularly needed available on the fly, using horizontal space that's much more available than vertical one.
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Unrelated to that exact image but I'm gonna rant about other windows shit because I feel like it.
Windows decided my page file needed to be 80 GB. I do not want it to be 90 GB. I go to the start menu and search up "page file" to see if there's a settings menu. First result is a random file in an application's directory that can't be opened/displayed by any program on my PC, then a list of other unrelated files.
So I open Control Panel, hoping to find it where I did before, and I click on System. What do you know, that menu no longer exists, and redirects to Windows Settings. Where do I go from here? Maybe the giant Installed RAM section because the page file is just a (overly simplified) method of extending your memory to your disk? No, of course not, that menu's not actually a menu, it's just a stat counter.
Instead, I have to go to Device Specifications, then the section titled Related links, then click Advanced system settings. Oh whaddaya know? Now I'm in the settings menu that used to be behind the original System option in Control Panel!
Now I'm in the Advanced tab of that menu. But where do I go from here? That's right, Performance Options, and then another Advanced tab!!!
Then I have to click the Change button, where Windows has... conveniently enabled System managed size so it could choose to set my page file to 80 GB.
I edit, it, hit Ok, have to hit Apply in the other menu too, have to close out the no-longer-needed Settings and Control Panel windows that only served as a maze to get me here in the first place, and THEN I can restart my computer to reduce the size of the page file, even though it is currently not in use by any program, and all data is in RAM, and the file could reasonably be shrunk by the system at any time.
After the restart, this process begins all over again, because this is my third attempt, and Windows automatically reverts back to managing the size itself, and sets it to 80 GB. I have 5 GB of storage space left on my disk.
The descent into advanced Advanced menus really is the cherry on top of this shit muffin.
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As I say, when you're hunting around for something in Windows and you come across a dialog box that came straight from Windows XP.... you're getting close.
Had to go through this the other day. At the third consecutive "advanced settings" menu I wondered if this was some kind of sick joke
All this yes. If you're actually looking for help, you have to also click "set" after changing the page file settings.
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They can do whatever they want, it'll be without me.
I'm not saying that my Linux installation was super easy to set up, but once set up, I've had fewer problems than Windows.
I for one do miss my system restarting in the middle of some work to apply an update.
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The Windows start menu is completely useless now. I know they pushed using the search to find apps, but I never used it that way except as a last resort.
I've been on Mint for just over a year, now. I'll never go back.
By find apps, do you mean the ones I installed already or ones in their marketplace or whatever?
Because I've never been able to have it find my own god damn programs that I installed locally and fully given up on ever using the start menu.
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Holy shit. Mac user here, that is wild.
Spotlight isn't much better, ads creeping in, and in App Store, Apple TV, and tons of popups for apple subscriptions now
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I know this is the wrong audience, but you can type cmd into explorer and it will launch a terminal in that directory (I think this works with any command in your path)
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as a linux user (so, genetically superior in every way) i do not have this issue. hahaha....ah.
.... sudo app install ....... a friend?
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I said show me the true terminal!
Just Install Linux
Maybe it’s my Win 11 Pro or the fact that I took 2 minutes to go to Settings and click a few toggles, but I don’t have any of this. 🤷♂️
A lot of these annoyances can be disabled somewhere in the Settings, but the problem is that there are so many of them tucked away all over the place. Windows 10 (I haven't used 11) was better than Windows 8 in terms of how unified the settings were, but I remember a few instances where I had to go rummaging through the skeletons in Windows' closet in order to change some stuff (e.g. having to go through the old-style control panel rather than the Settings).
Furthermore, Windows has the annoying habit of changing settings after updates, and it's an unnecessary inconvenience to have to go traipsing through the settings again and again to revert unwelcome changes. Even if it's only the minority of settings that get changed, and if those changes aren't too frequent, it's still draining on one's executive function to make your PC actually behave how you want it to. People get burnt out, and then this contributes to them struggling to find the time and brain to go through changing things.
Mostly though, I am just irked that it's necessary to go into the settings to turn this stuff off. I am a very techy person, and thus I enjoy tinkering (or perhaps "I enjoy tinkering, and thus I am a very techy person), and stuff like this annoys me so much because I know that I'm in the minority when it comes to willingness to wrestle my tech into the shape I want it. Most people won't go to that effort, even if it'll only take 2 minutes — the key thing here is that many of them don't know it'll only take a couple of minutes, and I don't blame them for that.
Good software needs to have sensible default settings. If that were the case, then I think we'd see more non-techy people figuring out what particular settings align with their preferences. As it stands though, configuring Windows to work in a sensible manner is a Task, and the activation energy required for that means that many won't do it.
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