Millions of people using Windows 10 are facing a tough choice. Microsoft plans to stop offering security updates for the system, leaving countless computers vulnerable. For many, upgrading to Windows 11 simply isn’t an option because their hardware isn’t new enough. This situation is pushing users to look for alternatives. But here’s a fresh twist […]
      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        92·
        2 months ago

        What the actual fuck? How the fuck does that even work? So if you don’t have any Internet connection you can’t use the goddamn start button what the

        • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
          27·
          2 months ago

          No, I think it works without a network connection. But it’s an Electron a React Native app now, which means it’s a glorified webview displaying an HTML document pretending to be an app because apparently even Microsoft don’t give a shit about MAUI.

          Electron apps (and similar shit like React Native) are notorious for being slow and extremely resource-hungry. You know, exactly what you don’t want a care part of your OS to be.

          • ThyTTY@lemmy.world
            12·
            2 months ago

            It’s worse that that. Only parts of the start menu are in react native (but it still needs to initialized every time you open it)

    • Tahl_eN@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know that I would say “much worse.” But it’s more than incrementally worse, which is what most of the updates to Win10 have been over its lifetime. So straw, meet camel’s back.

  • naeap@sopuli.xyz
    21·
    2 months ago

    but here’s a fresh twist in the tech world: Linux

    Fresh twist?
    Like a multi decade old and proven system is the new kid in the block?

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      proven? how is a system proven for usage by common people that can’t even do automatic updates safely? It’s just recently getting to that point, with offline updates!

      yeah you and me can use it fine. we can run apt upgrade, dist-upgrade, and fix when it does not boot anymore, but most of us are aware that our parents but also non-tech friends can’t.

  • freebee@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    2 months ago

    Still in disbelief how they wreck it even in the simplest things.

    Remember how clicking the audio system tray icon would open… The common audio settings and nothing else, idem dito for the network icon. For some incomprehensible reason they jammed those system tray icons menus all together a few years ago, you need more clicks, it’s less intuitive and less efficient. For what reason? No one knows.

    Remember how right clicking an icon would open a quite extensive context menu? Gone. Now it’s a few BS options I never need. For example “open with…”: gone. Now in the freaking context menu you have to click “more options” for another, full context menu to appear.

    Incredible BS tiny changes with a big negative user experience impact I truly cannot grasp why they’d do it. Only reason everyone sticks around is (bad) habits, vendor lockin and obligations for certain software by school or work who insist on keeping Microsoft because they themselves are also vendor locked in or just very very scared of change.

    • hietsu@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      2 months ago

      Not to mention the other great features of the shiny new context menu: Annoying little lag when opening, and changing of the content about 1.5 secs after it has opened — right when you have started to click some item so you end up doing some random unintended thing. Chef’s kiss