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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

“We tried asking. We tried begging. We tried bullying. We even tried tricking people into upgrading. We tried everything short of actually making a usable OS!”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I understand how it is possible for an OS to interrupt one's use of one's own computer to beg for money or to install spyware. I don't understand how such an OS would still have users.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If I didn't have to use it for work, and if Ableton Live made a Linux version, I'd never use Windows again. Every single activity is interrupted by messages that are effectively adverts for things you're not interested in. The Start menu still doesn't work after 29 years of development. Searching for a file is ridiculously slow and doesn't find the file. Everything else is also slow, all the time. I have given up trying to arrange my desktop icons because they always go back to the same position they've been stuck in for months. All the applications hang, and the whole system has frequent unresponsive moments where God knows what it's doing but it's nothing I asked for. I dual boot into Linux and it feels like an oasis of peace.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah, sorry, didn't mean to rag on people that have to work with it. I think we're all frustrated that it's still so pervasive even though it gets worse every year.

[–] Valmond 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Check out "everything" for windows, it finds files, all files, instantly. And it's free.

If I worked at Microsoft, on windows, I'd be so ashamed I wouldn't tell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I use Everything. It is a thousand times more useful than Windows's file search, even though it only indexes filenames, not file contents.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

"Please people, please... just give us your money. We might leave you alone after that. For a while."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Surely more AI will fix it!