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"My Windows 11 user experience document that I keep adding to" (pastebin.com)

submitted 6 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Note: I don't care if the issues listed can be fixed - it's still like selling a nonworking car then getting the users to go to the shady cyberpunk district to get the fixes. It's like selling a dangerous power adapter and then go, hey, you can get an expert to go in there and do some soldering to the bridge rectifier and bulk cap trace widths, fix up the spark gaps so it complies with the most basic of safety regulations, and it will work as well as the competitor's, so aren't they practically the same? "Duurp, well at least you CAAAN get inside and solder-" Hey, what if a power supply just worked and was well featured? After like 40 years of development. Ever thought about that?

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Windows 10 and 11 periodically beg me to turn on OneDrive and 365 and switch Edge to the default browser and stuff like that

[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why is there no proper text editor like on other systems - oh, right, M$ wants to sell office 365 subs! "Well, you can download-", yeah, sure let's have grandma go to Huckter Joe's Totally Not Trojans inc. JUST TO EDIT TEXT! IN FUCKING 2025!

it really is weird how much proprietary OSes gatekeep basic-ass good text editing, and how absolutely nothing mainstream includes even basic developer tooling anymore. there’s a big, unnecessary moat around development and I don’t like it.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does Windows no longer have notepad?

[–] Gurfaild@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

Apparently it's infested with AI now - maybe PowerShell ISE is the closest thing to a reasonable text editor that comes with Windows nowadays, and that's only because it's a deprecated app they haven't removed yet

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

some of the settings windows appear to be really old windows stuff that got sort of just hung on there. Which is fine if they work but the whole GUI is a bit of a hodgepodge. It's like they took old windows, threw a new incredibly clumsy GUI on top, and also abandoned the effort halfway.

The settings system has been that way since like Windows XP. This is not new to 11, except that they added a new layer of gui styling to the mess, but that happened in 10.