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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It takes Windows 11 a minute to load the "control panel" window... just hangs.

Re-release XP and be done with it, you're bad and you should feel bad.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What follows is our plan to raise the bar on Windows 11 quality this year, with a focus on performance, reliability and well-crafted experiences.

Pavan Davuluri
Executive Vice President, Windows + Devices

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What was that about Windows K2 again? Ah, who cares

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They gave up, K2 is a tougher climb than Everest.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

If they had tried at least we'd get a 1/5 chance that the windows market stranglehold dies lol.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Set alarm for 10am

OK setting alarm for 20am

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

I think instead of the computer showing you the time, they should replace the clock program with a chat prompt so you can ask the computer to guess what the time is

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 10 points 13 hours ago

Nadella won't be satisfied until he maps everyone's enter key to fuckong copilot.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 54 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (27 children)

Hello, this is the Linux comment

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[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Jesus Christ. First they fucked over notepad and introduced dozens of application breaking new bugs and broke decades of existing functionality, now they're thinking about breaking the damn clock ?

Wait, no, they've already broken the clock in windows 11 because it no longer shows seconds, and doesn't respond to clicks on non primary displays.

I guess they decided it wasn't broken enough.

I'm getting so sick of their shit.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh you want to see a fun win11ism? Use the calculator to determine the number of days between 2 dates.

Win 10: 2 fields you type in

Win 11: no typing is possible. You must click and scroll through a calendar ui for each date.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't even know the calculator could do that.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

It borderline can’t now

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's wild to me that clocks stopped responding on non-primary windows. The first time I noticed that I thought it was broken- and I was right, because there's zero rhyme or reason for removing that functionality.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think they removed it, as such, it's more that they rewrote the clock from scratch and didn't know the old clock did that, and didn't care to find out.

Similar to how task manager used to suppress the refresh if shift was being held down and that no longer works in Windows 11 because they rewrote it and never looked at Dave's original code.

[–] brynjolf@lemmy.ml 2 points 54 minutes ago

I still can’t believe how slow the task manager is in windows 1a, how do you ever release a task manager that is slower than before? Disgraceful developers and managers over there now

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is it your laptop, or theirs?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's obviously their laptop.. what's your point ?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If they've ceded that much control, there aren't many ways it's still their hardware left.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm not following you... Like most corporates, they've locked it down, in this case with BeyondTrust, so that it's not even possible to run unapproved executables without a dialog box popping up and demanding and explanation which then creates a ticket with security, who casually deny it a few days later.

[–] BigTwerp@feddit.uk 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can't they just make tabbed file explorer work properly instead?

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What's wrong with tabbed file explorer? I haven't run into any issues yet

[–] BigTwerp@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There's no way to automatically open new folders in a tab. You can right click but in windows 11 it's hidden in the more options menu by default. You can overcome some of this with regedit but I only use windows for work and naturally I'm locked out of that.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I have never been bothered by right clicking the folder then selecting new tab or new window if I don't want to just enter the folder, but at the top of the window on the bar there are 3 dots. Click that icon and hit options it pops a settings window up and u can select if u want 2x or single click to perform action and if u want to just enter the folder or by default have it open in a new tab or window. If w11 did one thing well I thought it was the new file explorer lol. I haven't done any regedits for these options but sucks to be locked out of that for many reasons!!

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 12 points 19 hours ago

Motherf-

🤦🏻‍♀️

I started writing a clock app of my own because the Windows 11 clock app didn't have a proper analog mode and it's pretty useless. (Windows 3 clock app had analog mode, why not Windows 11?)

Some time ago I was ranting that instead of adding an analog mode, Microsoft will probably just pointlessly add Copilot to the clock app.

...Don't blame me! I was just pointing out the obvious direction Microsoft is going for, whether we like it or not!

Aaaaanyway. This summer's project is to figure out how the hell the Godot layout system works so I can make the layout responsive and I can release 1.1.

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