I love how it has settings option in the Start Menu that completely ignores most of the settings on your pc. Good luck finding out that there is a control panel if you're coming from another OS. There are 2 different set of settings for everything.
as if the general public is going to be able to figure out how to do linux let alone linux package managers.Man it's better than windows 8 in a lot of ways but windows 10 still kinda sucks considering it's the most popular OS in the world. I am working from home ATM so I have a lot on my mind and the windows 10 mail app was fucking up. I then remembered that for some reason to update it you don't use windows update but instead the Microsoft Store app. Why on earth is it like this over in a separate section? Linux package managers have had the right idea about this for almost plural decades at this point.
That's not to mention all the other weird shit that happens with it that's almost impossible to figure out. It must be because microsoft only hire people for 18 month contracts now that everything has gone to shit.
it'd be really great if people stopped spreading this FUD.
This is controversial (but it shouldn't be) but Windows to this day, and even with 10, still has the better task-oriented desktop UI/UX over macOS. The only thing macOS has going for it is the trackpad gestures (and a more unified OS UI visual design), which are great on their own, but using macOS in a desktop environment with a regular keyboard and mouse for serious work? Good luck.
macOS also just has weird OS-level behaviours that are left over from the days where it made sense only to Apple people. When you click on the red 'X" in a window in macOS, it doesn't actually properly close the whole program/app, just the window, and the app/program is still taking up RAM and resources in the background. This makes literally no sense, and is even counter-intuitive for an end user that doesn't know how operating systems work on a deeper level. Also the maximizing of windows and full-screen stuff in macOS is just one giant disaster and just a head-scratcher of bad UI/UX design, you're just left there thinking how could something this bad could come from a company like Apple. None of it it friendly towards use of a computer mouse, especially compared to how the snapping feature works in Windows.
I always forget how to get to certain "legacy" menus like the Network Connections screen or Sound Control Panel because the defaults open up the Windows 10 menu screens which seem to lack certain functionality from the legacy menus.
This is controversial (but it shouldn't be) but Windows to this day, and even with 10, still has the better task-oriented desktop UI/UX over macOS. The only thing macOS has going for it is the trackpad gestures (and a more unified OS UI visual design), which are great on their own, but using macOS in a desktop environment with a regular keyboard and mouse for serious work? Good luck.
macOS also just has weird OS-level behaviours that are left over from the days where it made sense only to Apple people. When you click on the red 'X" in a window in macOS, it doesn't actually properly close the whole program/app, just the window, and the app/program is still taking up RAM and resources in the background. This makes literally no sense, and is even counter-intuitive for an end user that doesn't know how operating systems work on a deeper level. Also the maximizing of windows and full-screen stuff in macOS is just one giant disaster and just a head-scratcher of bad UI/UX design, you're just left there thinking how could something this bad could come from a company like Apple. None of it it friendly towards use of a computer mouse, especially compared to how the Windows-snapping feature works in Windows.
You can uninstall Mail simply by right-clicking it in the Start menu now and clicking Uninstall. While a lot of people hold off on Windows 10 updates, I have to say that the value in keeping up with Windows 10 updates is that things to progressively get better in most cases, including the fact that the number of built-in apps that can be easily uninstalled increases.The Windows Mail app updates through the Microsoft store because it's a separate, uninstallable app.
This is controversial (but it shouldn't be) but Windows to this day, and even with 10, still has the better task-oriented desktop UI/UX over macOS. The only thing macOS has going for it is the trackpad gestures (and a more unified OS UI visual design), which are great on their own, but using macOS in a desktop environment with a regular keyboard and mouse for serious work? Good luck.
macOS also just has weird OS-level behaviours that are left over from the days where it made sense only to Apple people. When you click on the red 'X" in a window in macOS, it doesn't actually properly close the whole program/app, just the window, and the app/program is still taking up RAM and resources in the background. This makes literally no sense, and is even counter-intuitive for an end user that doesn't know how operating systems work on a deeper level. Also the maximizing of windows and full-screen stuff in macOS is just one giant disaster and just a head-scratcher of bad UI/UX design, you're just left there thinking how could something this bad could come from a company like Apple. None of it it friendly towards use of a computer mouse, especially compared to how the Windows-snapping feature works in Windows.
Full-screen mode sucks yeah but you're not supposed to be using any kind of maximising on windows in macOS anyway, that's a bad habit people are importing over from Windows.
One thing I find particularly insane in MacOs is that if I have a directory full of images, I can't just open one, then press right and left to go through all the images in that directory. That's basic stuff right there. Explorer has a number of other quality of life features that make it super useful. For example, I can navigate to any folder, right click and have a menu option right there to open that folder in Powershell (or command line, depending on how you're configured).
I'm not sure what "not supposed to" means. The UI shouldn't dictate to me how I size my windows. Plus, if someone is using a 12" Macbook, you can be damn sure they're maximizing windows.
You're able to butcher the end user experience, with poorly built intranets and arbitrary OS restrictions, deploying to shitty 5 year old Dell and Lenovo laptops that are barely functional.There is not a greater enterprise OS solution than Windows.
The SCCM is pretty fucking amazing and there is nothing like it that exists.
Yeah, buy your artist a Mac in your twelve person company.
Large corporate solutions require tools built over decades and refined for power.
We're able to tailor the OS experience for the end user, office has seamless integration into AD, mass software deployment, etc, etc.
My biggest gripe with Win 10 is that it will not allow me to turn off Smart Pin to log into my personal desktop at home. Just let me boot directly to desktop
Use column or list view in Finder, they're fantastic!
The Mac OS traditionally hasn't been about maximising windows, it's not the optimal way of using it. When I click on a window it becomes the active one while on Windows it becomes the active one and actions a click too which is really inconvenient a lot of the time.
Right now I can see 2 Word documents snapped side by side, a Terminal window, Messages, Finder, Apple Music and my web browser while still having my Dock and Menu Bar visible on a 21" screen. Tunnel visioning on 1 app at a time (or 1 per screen) isn't the Mac way of doing things. I never use maximise on my 11" MacBook Air either.
Different OS, different ways of doing things. On Windows I either snap windows or maximise them as my Mac workflow of having loads of windows scattered everywhere obviously doesn't work. I adapt to how Windows wants to do things.
The Mac OS traditionally hasn't been about maximising windows, it's not the optimal way of using it. When I click on a window it becomes the active one while on Windows it becomes the active one and actions a click too which is really inconvenient a lot of the time.
Right now I can see 2 Word documents snapped side by side, a Terminal window, Messages, Finder, Apple Music and my web browser while still having my Dock and Menu Bar visible on a 21" screen. Tunnel visioning on 1 app at a time (or 1 per screen) isn't the Mac way of doing things. I never use maximise on my 11" MacBook Air either.
Different OS, different ways of doing things. On Windows I either snap windows or maximise them as my Mac workflow of having loads of windows scattered everywhere obviously doesn't work. I adapt to how Windows wants to do things.
The launch was rough and the inconsistent messaging about what was happening didn't help. That being said, it was 5 years ago and people are always quick to highlight negative things and leave it at that. Windows 10 is good now and has been for awhile. Some people being hyperbolic saying it's unusable or a disaster.Stuff like this is why I'm still on 8.1 with Start8 to make it look like Windows 7. When 10 came out I just kept hearing nothing but bad things from people who updated, and the word of mouth never really improved from what I've seen.
Don't just sit there and hook us up with these QoL hacks you little bastard.
I don't see why they don't just put all the control panel functionality into their new settings and then get rid of control panel
It's not bullshit considering that it's happened to me many times on multiple different computers with different spec levels, mechanical drives and SSDs, all running Win10.I'm doing this right now and it's absolutely not true. The best match is the Notepad app, then some folders, then a different app that might be what I want, then some settings. Don't make bullshit claims like this. If yours is doing that, then it's probably broken. There's a difference between intended design and something that is broken.
There are hundreds of millions of Windows 10 machines in the world, I'm willing to wager the vast majority work as intended but some percentage experience indexing or search issues.
Now that I've been using my laptop as an actual laptop more as I'm working from home, I find it so weird that even the "modern" features are so bad. Like why can I only adjust the brighness through the notification panel in 25% steps?
Except when you can't. Like you can't get to the legacy mouse properties menu without going through the modern settings page. Or at least I can't figure out how.
I understand. My Win machine is for gaming only. I use Arch btw.I'd be running arch if I didn't use Adobe suite for work and play street fighter 😬
BTW when did macs become the malware destination of choice? Mrs Stinkles complained her iMac (last year's model) was "kinda slow" - it was utterly unusable thanks to a search malware that had infested every browser and installed a profile so it couldn't be adequately scrubbed.
It was so bad I ended up archiving her files and nuking the whole thing from orbit. I haven't seen that kind of horror show since the early oughts on grandpa's Windows PC. (He still opens every goddamned pdf anyone sends him) - I used to BEG him to get a mac to avoid exactly that.
This one got on the Mac via a fake Flash permission window - to be fair it's pretty convincing - and thankfully it's just adware (or at least that's as far as it got) - anyone have a reccs fir a free sturdy anti virus for Mac? And why doesn't apple have one? This specific malware is two years old now.
It's not bullshit considering that it's happened to me many times on multiple different computers with different spec levels, mechanical drives and SSDs, all running Win10.
Yes, notepad will *eventually* come up as the main result, AFTER the web search has run, but it takes a second or two and you have to stop and wait for the result to populate.
On windows 7, I can just fire it off without looking and notepad will immediately open.
On 10, I have to type notep, pause, then wait until I see the icon before pressing enter.
It might work for you and that's cool, but in my experience it doesn't work more often than it does.
Maybe my internet is just faster and can pull the search results faster than your computer can? Who knows. Either way it still happens.
Same situation here, Game art/animation and sadly, Windows is the better option by a mile.As someone who works in animation maya on Mac is garbage. A proper 3d pipeline works way better on windows than a Mac. Gpu rendering on a Mac? Not a chance.
Everything is fucking amazing. I wish there was a OSX version.For programs, sure. For documents? It's worthless. For example, here I compare Windows Search to a third party app, Everything, to look for a simple .JPG file -
This file was even placed in a folder on the C:\ drive, but Windows Search couldn't see it. I could've placed it inside any number of folders on any drive and Everything would've found it just as quickly. Apparently you have to keep indexing with Windows Search in order for it to find files in new locations - with Everything you tell it what drives to search on first run, it indexes everything in a quick scan, and from that point on you're good to go. It will instantly index any new folders instantly when it next runs, quietly in the background without you noticing it doing anything at all.
I know some people swear by Windows Search, but for me it's been pointless with every single iteration of Windows so far and I doubt I'll ever move away from using the tiny but awesome program that is Everything. I'd never use any search program to search for a program anyway unless I'd really lost it as everything is listed in ClassicShell's start menu or are in a small number of folders.
Meh to Windows Search. The only time I ever use it is to launch Edge (which for some reason isn't listed on the Start menu) when I need to use a different browser.
Personal preferences with maximizing windows depends on which windowed environment you got started in. As someone who was using Mac before Windows, it always baffles me when I see people working with maximized windows on a >20" screen. I size my windows to the optimal work space, which allows me to have them floating around my screen wherever I need them. The times I do maximize them, I appreciate them being shoved into their own space, which I can slide back and forth between with ease. I've also got iTunes open fullscreen in another space, because I don't need it open on my main desktop.The Mac OS traditionally hasn't been about maximising windows, it's not the optimal way of using it. When I click on a window it becomes the active one while on Windows it becomes the active one and actions a click too which is really inconvenient a lot of the time.
Right now I can see 2 Word documents snapped side by side, a Terminal window, Messages, Finder, Apple Music and my web browser while still having my Dock and Menu Bar visible on a 21" screen. Tunnel visioning on 1 app at a time (or 1 per screen) isn't the Mac way of doing things. I never use maximise on my 11" MacBook Air either.
Different OS, different ways of doing things. On Windows I either snap windows or maximise them as my Mac workflow of having loads of windows scattered everywhere obviously doesn't work. I adapt to how Windows wants to do things.
For programs, sure. For documents? It's worthless. For example, here I compare Windows Search to a third party app, Everything, to look for a simple .JPG file -
This file was even placed in a folder on the C:\ drive, but Windows Search couldn't see it. I could've placed it inside any number of folders on any drive and Everything would've found it just as quickly. Apparently you have to keep indexing with Windows Search in order for it to find files in new locations - with Everything you tell it what drives to search on first run, it indexes everything in a quick scan, and from that point on you're good to go. It will instantly index any new folders instantly when it next runs, quietly in the background without you noticing it doing anything at all.
I know some people swear by Windows Search, but for me it's been pointless with every single iteration of Windows so far and I doubt I'll ever move away from using the tiny but awesome program that is Everything. I'd never use any search program to search for a program anyway unless I'd really lost it as everything is listed in ClassicShell's start menu or are in a small number of folders.
Meh to Windows Search. The only time I ever use it is to launch Edge (which for some reason isn't listed on the Start menu) when I need to use a different browser.
Everything is fucking amazing. I wish there was a OSX version.
Personal preferences with maximizing windows depends on which windowed environment you got started in. As someone who was using Mac before Windows, it always baffles me when I see people working with maximized windows on a >20" screen. I size my windows to the optimal work space, which allows me to have them floating around my screen wherever I need them. The times I do maximize them, I appreciate them being shoved into their own space, which I can slide back and forth between with ease. I've also got iTunes open fullscreen in another space, because I don't need it open on my main desktop.
Whenever I have to help a Windows user at work, I can't believe how many windows they have maximized that don't need to be maximized. Like, a fullscreen window for each and every goddamn email they have open. Is this truly necessary?I've only been using Macs for 15 years so I was very much a Windows kid growing up. Either some kind soul told me to let it go and stop maximising windows when I got my first Mac or I quickly figured it out myself because of Expose, which was a revelation coming from Windows XP!
Just tried it, IMHO, it's no where near as useful or good as everything.
Got annoyed by this and found out you can do a shortcut to mmsys.cplThey fucked the sound settings, it's driving me mad trying to change anything.
Whenever I have to help a Windows user at work, I can't believe how many windows they have maximized that don't need to be maximized. Like, a fullscreen window for each and every goddamn email they have open. Is this truly necessary?
Just tried it, IMHO, it's no where near as useful or good as everything.
I don't need the features of Alfred, I just want an instant file name search of all files that I can sort.To be fair Windows does not make it easy unless you're using window snapping as clicking on a window will also action a click. Whenever I have tried using Windows like I would a Mac I have ended up clicking on Discord names, clicking on links I didn't want to, clicking on the new email button in Outlook etc. You have to be very aware of where you are clicking on a window when making it active even from within the same app. I find it really claustrophobic and limiting but I guess people are used to it.
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I've tried Wox on Windows which uses Everything and it's nowhere near Alfred's level.