Personal computing discussed
bfg-9000 wrote:You get used to the UI. It's kind of like the "personalized menus" that you used to disable because it would move things around on you all of the time so you couldn't find them--even the order of drives in Windows Explorer get scrambled around depending on what you used last, and this kind of behavior makes it usually faster to just start typing in what you want into search. I don't really mind this, as it reminds me of using a PC pre-Windows 3.1 (and spelling counts too because it's not as good as Google in trying to decipher misspellings).
FireGryphon wrote:Is there a third party Classic Shell like there was for Win8?
bfg-9000 wrote:Classic Shell itself works in Win 10 and fixes Windows Explorer too.
However there's so much screen real estate these days that you could just put the icons on the desktop and use it like Windows 3.1 or Palm OS
FireGryphon wrote:Complaining has died down, but that doesn't mean the security concerns are gone, just that you need to know how to turn off the right features to make the OS 'safe'. My impression that once you get that under control, it's just another version of Windows. Irrespective of all that, if you need to live in that ecosystem, there isn't really a choice, is there?
End User wrote:It is basically the same as Windows 2000. M$ has no creative spark.
bfg-9000 wrote:That said, with each version upgrade Microsoft has been systematically removing the real gems in the UI like the right-click-on-the-Start-button shortcut to Programs and Features, which forces you to wade through the corresponding useless Metro App version to get to the more powerful Control Panel version.
LostCat wrote:bfg-9000 wrote:That said, with each version upgrade Microsoft has been systematically removing the real gems in the UI like the right-click-on-the-Start-button shortcut to Programs and Features, which forces you to wade through the corresponding useless Metro App version to get to the more powerful Control Panel version.
More powerful how? You lost me there. (Hell, for people who really think that there's an easy link to Programs and Features on the right side of the Apps and Features page. Though I can't see any reason one would want to use it.)
whm1974 wrote:So Metro is still part of Windows 10????
synthtel2 wrote:In Linux, I've configured that menu key nobody ever uses to open a terminal, so it's menu key -> type first few chars of program name -> tab complete -> enter. With virtual desktop abuse, the extra terminals left hanging around are no problem, and winkey+[number] to go straight to a desktop makes virtual desktop abuse easy.
synthtel2 wrote:whm1974 wrote:So Metro is still part of Windows 10????
Yes, but it isn't nearly as bad as in Win 8.0. At this point it's mostly just a bit of benign multiple-personality UI, which you're probably already used to as a Linux user. The store and other aspects like that are mostly avoidable.
LostCat wrote:bfg-9000 wrote:That said, with each version upgrade Microsoft has been systematically removing the real gems in the UI like the right-click-on-the-Start-button shortcut to Programs and Features, which forces you to wade through the corresponding useless Metro App version to get to the more powerful Control Panel version.
More powerful how? You lost me there. (Hell, for people who really think that there's an easy link to Programs and Features on the right side of the Apps and Features page. Though I can't see any reason one would want to use it.)
just brew it! wrote:I also configured Ctrl+WinKey+Alt+T to launch a double-width terminal window, since I found myself doing the "launch terminal window, then resize to make it approximately double-width" thing really frequently,
whm1974 wrote:Well I use Xfce which is fairly straightforward, and runs well.
whm1974 wrote:So Metro is still part of Windows 10????
synthtel2 wrote:* The privacy issues remain a major factor for me.
bfg-9000 wrote:That does make it look like Win 3.1/NT 3.1!
Aphasia wrote:But isn't that why Microsoft is actually releasing a tool that will allow you to look at the telemetry that you are sending back to them, since they seem pretty commited to be transparant about the whole thing.
In my world, there are much worse things out there to be worried about. And I'm working wihin the security field. There are just some things basically not worth wasting energy caring about when there are so many other things that are infinitely worse you want to get look into getting rid of.
ludi wrote:bfg-9000 wrote:That does make it look like Win 3.1/NT 3.1!
It's particularly useful for systems that undergo frequent resolution changes (laptops, and systems accessed remotely). A former coworker started using it when he got tired of his desktop icons jumping around.
Captain Ned wrote:End User wrote:It is basically the same as Windows 2000. M$ has no creative spark.
Because they still support 3.5mm jacks?? Oh, and M$ is ever so triste and passé.