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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.

Talented in what

to be fair, the talent and paygrade doesn't matter if the management is ass. Modern dey corpos are a disaster in that regard

But other operating systems (as well as Windows with power toys if you hit alt + space) do this without having to integrate a search engine into the system search lol

I want to upvote and downvote you at the same time lol.

I'd expect a serious OS to have this by default, without internet. gnome-calculator can take in typed input for any conversion - volume, weight, currency; without an internet connection, right on the calculator screen.

Do you hit alt+space at all? I accidentally discovered it just recently, hit it by accident, hit escape real fast, but then the mental picture registered in my head and I was like hmm, but couldn't figure out what I hit. The software I use for work has all sorts of ctrls and alts in it, and soi resigned myself to having to stumble upon it again, which fortunately I did. It's mainly a quick and easy calculator, you type some equation, and then you can have it automatically go to your clipboard.

This may just be a power toys thing, I have no idea, I use tools that are beyond my ability, whatever happens happens.

at this point arch linux is more user-friendly

I empathize with this slightly non-ideal situation.

But can you imagine how insane it would be if you were told to do something like copy/paste swapoff /swap && truncate -s 8G /swap && swapon /swap into a terminal? TEXT? Like a caveman? The horror! The heresy! How can anyone be expected to do something so complicated! This is entirely unreasonable UX and the reason why Linux is straight up unusable.

Btw here's 15 bazillion commands in a .ps to perhaps disable some of the ads in your start menu until the next time your computer reboots.

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

The descent into advanced Advanced menus really is the cherry on top of this shit muffin.

All this yes. If you're actually looking for help, you have to also click "set" after changing the page file settings.

This is the same kind of response when someone denies global warming/climate change because they looked outside and the weather around them appears normal.

All the problems these people bitch about with Windows never happen to me. Maybe it's because I started with a plain vanilla ISO, no preloaded crap. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Best part? When I mention that I'm not having these problems I get downvoted.

I believe the claim that Windows search is “indeterminate”, and won’t give the same answer each time. I’ve had things I’ve tried that turned out like that.

Eh, people put up with much worse shit than this in the grand scheme of things.

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.

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.

But OP wanted Terminal, not cmd.exe They're not the same thing.