What frustrates you about windows the most? To me is:
>the absolute disregard to any design consistency across the OS
>windows explorer (terrible file manager)
>if I had to add one more thing, it would be cool if windows had a little more options about how you can customize it, like easily switching icons (I know you can switch icons, but chances are you will probably screw up your system eventually if you do that)
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It's a fucking dumpster fire on an HDD and I still have one at work.
The most frustrating thing for me is that that they have't recalled Windows 10 and offered indefinite support to users on 8 and 7, so they can spend 5 years rewriting the NT kernel and another 2 years implementing a completely refreshed UI in Qt.
I've had to fix Windows installs for a few people, and it was probably just how obtuse it is. Everything feels hidden and nothing is intuitive or clear. Even after looking up how to do something it isn't clear, since there are always multiple ways to do even the simplest of tasks. Windows is like an old storage cellar, sure the person who has been there since it was small and manageable can find their way around, but anyone new to it will be immediately overwhelmed by the sheer size of the mess.
>windows explorer (terrible file manager)
You what.
Since the keyboard-driven ribbon in Win8 (which was clearly inspired by vim navigation browser addons), it's the best file manager shipping with the OS ever. Combined with basic tiling and native workspaces, it can even serve as a poor man's Total Commander. It still has a long way to go to become a proper FM, but it's clearly an unusually big step towards power use, as well as CUI for everything instead of GUI-only.
>absolute disregard to any design consistency across the OS
This. If they made the OS look like 7 or Vista aesthetically, I'd jizz my pants. The least they could do is make there be themes for it so I don't have to install Custom Shell to make it kinda look like 7 or Vista.
That's not realistic in the slightest
Unfixable errors that just break your system so you have to sit through 2 hours of reinstalling
Wake up user, you're having one of those absolutely crazy dreams again.
Windows is DRMware and spyware. Has way too much bloat.
It breaks after a few months and the only way to fix it is a reinstall.
Shit basic desktop usage compared to Linux (default software and drivers, window controls, screenshots, settings, keyboard shortcut customisation, terminal/console, app store, 10x slower updates).
Bad UI which can't be changed (win 10).
>It breaks after a few months and the only way to fix it is a reinstall.
As opposed to linux which breaks all the time.
>Shit basic desktop usage compared to Linux
It's physically impossible to have worse desktop usage than linux.
>Bad UI which can't be changed
Literally the same on 99% of distros, except you can change the UI to another equally bad and unpolished one.
Linux is infinitely more stable and easier to use.
Cry more, winfag.
have you thought about replacing the windows shell? en.wikipedia.org
The best replacement is bbwin or bbzero
go here first
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Nice projecting, FOSSturd.
Windows is objectively inferior to all other consumer and server grade operating systems. Get over it, or soothe yourself with some helpful dilation.
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>no one store for all of your software (Something like linux store or smartphone store, they could have had something like this along time)
>no build in update downloader
>no clear way of fixing errors need to google for few hours and try everything
>reinstalling is easier than fixing
>have multiple desktops but cant launch software to desktops that i set up at start
>No easy way of transfering settings to a fresh install
Some of this problems could be fixed by third party software but i really dislike it somethings should be standard by now. If I didn't had games I would switch to Linux. There are improvements in Windows and I have been running it for a few years without problems. But I hate it when I have to fix other people problems and even Microsoft solutions dont work and I need to reinstall, just kills me everytime. Like there could have been a better way of doing this or something to assure that critical system files could be checked and working and that user installed software doesnt breake your system. How could that even be possible in this age?
>. If I didn't had games I would switch to Linux.
Run Linux in a VM. AAny gayming box is more than fast enough to run two OS at once.
If it's objectively inferior, why is everyone using it?
Checkmate, tranny.
>As opposed to linux which breaks all the time
Ever heard of NixOS? It's incapable of breaking by design, and even if it did break, you could roll back generations (system states) or select one on startup in GRUB. Can your Winblows do that?
Because everyone has growned acustomed to it.
And that is because back in the 90s it actually was the easiest to use system for most people. Linux has come a long way since, but it's hard to win against the OS that has had such a head start in market share. Linux was made easy way too late.
Clicking help in the new control panel, being sent to a bing search opening in the browser that brings me back to the exact same page in the control panel
Pakistan should nuke India just for that reason
The fucking bloat of windows
Win 10 pro continuously install shit like candy crush. You can get rid of it but it's difficult.
Enterprise is like a whole different OS
Almost all arent in active development.
Pro doesn't, it's the lesser versions that do.
pic is priddy much what happened to my xbox 360
i want them blades back
>>the absolute disregard to any design consistency across the OS
Used to be very well designed. Not anymore...
Because 10 is a testing ground CoreOS.
>switch to newer version of Windows (and to the same extent Office)
>all menus and settings are arranged COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY, can't find the simplest functions or settings to save your life
>every new version seems to take more control away from the user
>newest versions have mandatory updates and telemetry
That's why I'm planning to use Win 7 for as long as I possibly can. It's what I'm used to. I'm getting to old for these constant changes.
Also I suspect that with mandatory updates software developers will rely on users having them, and that the latest versions of a lot of desktop programs will eventually conflict with LTSC that hasn't seen an update in two years.
>Program stops working as it should out of nowhere
>Look up a fix
>Find 9001 with at least 12 different "solutions"
>Try them all
>Still broken
>Hit windows key
>Start typing control panel items
>Sound
>Legacy applet is right there and open it like normal
>be the next day
>Sound
>Only find the new dogshit "setting"
>Somehow control panel applets stopped indexing
>Redundant control panel in general
>OH I SEE YOU WERE GAMING LET'S CHANGE SOME SETTINGS
>Programs that take control of your system volume
Brain melting pajeet logic
I think the thing that pisses me off is how frustrating an experience just keeping the OS up to date is. On Windows 7 the update system just seems to shit itself at times then you have to do some ridiculous shit like run an update system fixer. Windows just has all these little issues that end up taking a lo g time to fix. Meanwhile my MacOS install which has been upgraded through 4 is releases just works. Update installs never hang. The system literally never shuts itself in any way
>the lack of tweaking the system & the ui
>the vastly inferior ntfs file-system
>the clunky & ineffective windows update
>to get full control you need enterprise edition
>non-pirate windows is insanely expensive
Is that what frustrates you the most?
you are retarded
The search function
or lack thereof
I just stopped trying to use it. Its worthless
The fact that it's moving further and further away of what I'm looking for in an operating system. Just give me a stable, secure and lightweight platform on which I can build.
>As opposed to linux which breaks all the time.
Stay away from bleeding edge distros or stop being a brainlet
If I could get that with the new taskbar features, WSL, and possibly multi monitor support.
Everything has become a mess since Windows XP-7 because of forcing design changes oover the old. I don't even know where my settings are anymore.
It always had a search, but it have always been shit. But Everything exists and it's amazing.
>As opposed to linux which breaks all the time.
Imagine being an adult in the tech industry and saying this in a meeting about what platform your uptime dependent product should run on and thinking you won't be immediately laughed out of the room.
Linuxfags are to stupid to use win10 lmao
>linux desktop is the same as server linux
While SCCM's dipshittery comes close, if I had to only choose one, it would be that there is no version of windows sold to individual consumers that doesn't have literal ads in the start menu, that can come back anytime Microsoft pleases by updates. The fact you have to remove all this shit on install should be all the proof you need that Terry was right about Nigger Cattle.
It's just amazing how a small team of developers are able to come up with a better software for windows than microsoft itself. I mean, for instance there is Sharex, which is a way better print-screen/annotation software than windows natively has.
If you're talking about regular editions of W10 then:
UAC
Cortana
Forced ads and updates
Bloated
But, I mean.. you can just turn off all these things.
Why would you disable UAC?
No you can't.
Anyone remember how Windows handled updates in the days of XP and prior?
I don't, but I will tell you one other thing I don't remember, this fucking nightmare of having an update every time I turn on my computer, and having to sit there with a spinning circle while it says, "Getting Windows Ready..." and "Installing update..." for however long it takes.
I just don't remember that at all. And most *nix distros just let you use your computer while it's installing updates. Why does Windows have to be so far behind in terms of convenience and usability?
I don't understand how Microsoft is getting away with their shit OS. It's so problematic that we're looking to move away from it at my company.
I once turned off updates. Somehow, the OS found a way to turn them back on and removed my ability to turn them off again.
you literally right clickon it in the start mrnu you troglodyte
why do you even need a shell?
It's more convenient than having a million different front-end GUI programs installed for every trivial tool.
>Anyone remember how Windows handled updates in the days of XP and prior?
It didn't handle updates (disks or manual downloads), then it handled them manually (through IE magic on the MS website, later integrated as an OS program), and then it finally became automatic in XP, very similar to today's system.
As for the slow, bad update system, they do this primarily to gather your dick pics. However, it's also because people just didn't know they needed to update. Being out of date often meant getting viruses from ads or porn sites on IE, without clicking on anything suspicious. The autoupdate seems like it's gotten worse because Microsoft wants to continue supporting an intricate mess of APIs and services and drivers and legacy bullshit that other OSes have dropped over a decade ago, and also because they don't want to pay the price for too many competent engineers.
What file manager do you recommend user?