I’m all for it.

  • weedwhacking@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everyone knows Microsoft OSs are tick-tock anyway. The failed 11 will be superseded by a well received 12, and the cycle will continue. Can’t kill 10 until 12 is fully accepted. Like 10 and 7 before it.

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      1 year ago

      I find this funny as I remember the first 5 years of Windows 10 be like everyone hates it because it’s not Windows 7

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        Well it was replacing the tile-silliness of Windows 8, any OS that booted would receive some goodwill in comparison

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t count on that, if the rumor mill of windows 12 being a subscription model ends up true, it will be recieved far worse than 11 did.

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        1 year ago

        It seems a little far fetched for a subscription model to take off after Microsoft basically turned the OS in to freeware with ads.

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          I thought it was a little far-fetched as well, but there was a post I believe it was here a few weeks back of people that were running the windows 12 beta snooping around the code and seeing references to subscription classification and typing

          This is a PC mag article that refers to it. it doesn’t go in as depth as the other post did

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            1 year ago

            I guess they would just put in a lot more ads to make it sound at all reasonable.

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        This was never a thing. Someone took a blurb said by someone on a call, and ran with it. No one fact checked, no one looked at context. At least not until after the articles were out.

        The subscription stuff has always been on the enterprise side. Hell, it’s available right now and you don’t see it on the consumer side.

        In fact, 11 doesn’t even require activation. You can just install it, never activate, and continue to use it perpetually. How would the next step in their movement away from requiring consumer purchase be to charge monthly for access? Makes no damn sense right out the gate.

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          1 year ago

          I feel like I will have to revisit this comment in a few years with ‘aged like fine milk’… Hope I am wrong.

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      1 year ago

      failed 11

      By what metric (other than clickbaity tech publication headlines)?

      Every Windows release, even including “the good ones”, my repair shop has been inundated with requests to go back or post-upgrade troubleshooting work.

      We’ve had none of that since 11’s release. The only botched upgrades were due to underlying hardware conditions and everyone else has been neutral at worst.

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      before 10, on 8.1 everyone was the same with 10, that it will be the next Vista, by the same logic that XP was OK, Vista was NOK, 7 was OK, 8 was shit, 8.1 was OK…

      don’t forget, for several years, 10 was unuseable and lots of people - including me was not willing to use it.

      for a few years, 11 will be the devil but soonly enough the migration will happen - it has to, if someone needs Windows…

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        10 became usable when they walked back most feature changes and made it closer to 7. I had completed blocked out the awful start menu at 10 launch.

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          the start menu on Windows 10 is still unusable to me, so I end up just searching. sometimes it doesn’t even find a match when I type the exact name of the app I’m trying to launch. it’s computer software that can’t search text. I think it’s really good though and I hope that Microsoft makes a lot of money forcing people to buy new computers with Windows licenses attached to them. isn’t Jesus wonderful? God works in mysterious ways. I believe he has a plan for all of us. I’m taking a shit

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            The start menu is actually pretty good if you spend some time customizing it with your apps and programs. Having organized folders and groups is a “game changer” (ok not really, it’s neat though) for me.

            I also recommend adding all the programs to the start menu scrolling thingy. There is a folder somewhere on C: that you can put shortcuts into and they appear in the scrolling menu. Don’t ever rely on the search to launch programs that aren’t in that menu or setup comprehensive indexing yourself.

            Or just use “everything” to search for everything. Everything is extremely fast and indexes everything (hence it’s name) very quickly, and you can search with wildcards or boolean operators or my favorite regex.

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                1 year ago

                Then don’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                I do it because it makes my life easier (especially with “Everything”) and it doesn’t take long to do. But you do you.

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      I actually like 11 compared to 10 (so far as I like Windows in the first place - I only use it on my work-provided computer, Linux everywhere else). People rightly complain about the advertising and tracking for why they won’t upgrade but doesn’t 10 have that too?

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        I still have windows 10 on my work computer which is the only windows device I have, and it is riddled with advertisements, especially the start menu