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How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer (www.youtube.com)
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Dave & I don't always agree, but this was a good video. Admitting Windows coddles it's users too much, showing why Windows lost it's hardcore audience, and what it would take to win any of us back. (Not that that's likely, but what it would take)

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Great line at the end:

...Windows tries to be a friendly town for everybody and the zoning board forgot to include a neighborhood for the weirdos who build their own furniture. We don't want to take over your town, we don't even want to change it. We just a workshop with sharp chisels and permission to make a mess. Give us that and we'll stop complaining about the art you choose for City Hall.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

i don't understand the analogy, what is that actually referring to?

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I take it as them saying: give those interested the tools and ability to mess with deeper systems and customisation and ability to break things. That doesnt have to change the experience for everyone else.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Honestly what Microsoft should have done was sorta what Apple did with BSD but with Linux, write a killer front end but leave the Unix bits underneath. There’s your workshop to make a mess.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

that's what i mean, i don't get that criticism. what can't you do with windows? what specifically are they asking to do?

[–] ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
  • Use it without OneDrive being bundled
  • Use it without a Microsoft account
  • Use it without ads
  • Use it without Copilot

Yes, I know there are ways around each of these but the settings are all in different places, Microsoft keeps changing where the settings are, resetting to defaults on OS updates, and at least for trying to use it without a Microsoft account, actively closing loopholes for doing so.

[–] Kiernian@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Use it without telemetry Use it without mandatory notifications that turn themselves back on if you turn them off Use it without file grouping by date if I so choose

There's a giant list of configuration options they took away from 10 to 11 and more that they keep making more and more difficult to find, and this trend has been going on since aero was introduced in xp.

Some of us liked the power user options in win2k and feel they should have been expanded, not removed.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

"You do you but let me do (and fuck up) my own stuff. And stop preventing me doing that"