alexnode
Posts: 212 +96
I do the same, but because the start bar is really useless. All this AI money and still we have to put manually the software we use.
Microsoft unveils a new "human-centric" Start Menu redesign for Windows 11
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CapNemo72
Posts: 51 +92
So they had all Spartans helping them with refreshing the Menu that needs to get simpler, not need to honor any kind of icon, just do its job off having the list of software you have.
Its ironic, it it does not look Spartan at all.
Is that so hard?
If someone needs weather or news, they can install widget, and there you go. Why stress people that do not want this and have to go through many clicks to remove it?
But I guess, if you are in that UX design tea, you want to make a case that your job is meaningful and that all of them are needed there. So you do not meaningful things . . .
Its ironic, it it does not look Spartan at all.
Is that so hard?
If someone needs weather or news, they can install widget, and there you go. Why stress people that do not want this and have to go through many clicks to remove it?
But I guess, if you are in that UX design tea, you want to make a case that your job is meaningful and that all of them are needed there. So you do not meaningful things . . .
The downside of this is that you're using Linux, and that you're researching and learning different desktop environments. Before trying to find application analogs, port your data, and get everything working.
Linux desktop proponents don't get that most people treat their OS like a toaster not some sort of cherished hobby to tinker with for fun.
Anton Longshot
Posts: 186 +356
As a (very) long time Windows user I've PAID for my OS several times. Now Microsoft scr3ws users over by releasing a version that's a literal AD PLATFORM in an attempt to lay their grubby hands on MORE money.
And they'll undoubtedly repeat this scheme next time, and perhaps break all current tweaks and fixes
Unless they turn back this particular ugly clock they have lost me.
I no longer trust them and don't want to do business with such a traiterous company.
Sad because Microsoft's past work is largely responsible for my love of computing and I'll sorely miss Windows and my favorite apps. But nothing lasts forever and I'll no doubt find satisfactory replacements soon.
And they'll undoubtedly repeat this scheme next time, and perhaps break all current tweaks and fixes
Unless they turn back this particular ugly clock they have lost me.
I no longer trust them and don't want to do business with such a traiterous company.
Sad because Microsoft's past work is largely responsible for my love of computing and I'll sorely miss Windows and my favorite apps. But nothing lasts forever and I'll no doubt find satisfactory replacements soon.
TechMonger
Posts: 7 +3
Either nobody noticed or just didn't find such details important: They show a Skype icon to advertise a future start menu. Does Microsoft not know that Microsoft killed Skype (that is, put it out of its misery thank you) which was surely planned some time ago. 
amghwk
Posts: 1,714 +1,729
Don't know why Microsoft needed to screw up the original Windows 95 Start menu. Or at the most, Windows XP menu was more than enough, which was polished in 7. After 7, everything went downhill.
I have a handful of applications I don't use often. So infrequently that I don't remember the name.
Back before they ruined the start menu, I'd simply go look under "audio" or "video" or wherever I put it. In fact, I could do it with the keyboard and quickly organize it because the start menu was just a folder.
I skipped windows 8 and just never tried organizing the windows 10 menu. The once per 8 months when I want to use screen2gif; that's when I'm annoyed at microsoft trying to put a mobile "app launcher" on a desktop os.
It's not like this anymore. Installing and using distros like MXlinux or Mint are much easier and faster than windows. Depending on people's expectations of course, but for a general use, these distros work amazingly. My kids use it all the time and say that windows is harder to use. When you try to find your way out of notifications, you know you 've reached the bottom.
But Linux choice is more of a long term one. It's the decision to be in charge of the tech side of your life and not being held as a hostage by micro$oft forever.
99.9% of people don't care about this and happily leave their tech in the hands of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Amazon, etc.
Like I said before, very few people treat technology as a hobby and cause versus a tool.
I'm not held hostage by Microsoft and roll my eyes at people who use this kind of language. You're also inducing feedback from your kids, because they know what makes daddy happy or avoids a rant.
99.9 is a big number and probably would reasonably be more around 95 and shrinking every day. These 95% don't care about anything and follow blindly the mass while enjoying the ease of not thinking too much, and it's OK for me. About my kids, a lot of speculation on your side. They're not being taught the sheeple way and have no problem disagreeing with dad. My students on the other hand are sometimes absolutely lost while using windows as they have so little control and so many stimuli and challenges.
Not trying to convince you anyways, glad for you that you found an OS that matches your needs.
No need to go that far back. Win 7 start menu was good enough.
Same here. I can launch things much faster from taskbar and it's jump lists, than I can from start menu.
Half the time the search in the start menu cant even find what im looking for and it randomly resets anyway. No to mention that once you start the search there is no way to go back to pinned shortcuts. The only way is to close and reopen the start menu. A truly moronic design.
That's hilarous. Good catch.Either nobody noticed or just didn't find such details important: They show a Skype icon to advertise a future start menu. Does Microsoft not know that Microsoft killed Skype (that is, put it out of its misery thank you) which was surely planned some time ago.
Imagine discarding most of humanity for not sharing your niche OS hobby!
ZedRM
Posts: 2,942 +1,962
You made that up. I know for a fact more that .1% of people care about how their UI functions. Stop lying.
You "know for a fact" and your reference is "I want to believe that this is true."
Personal computing on desktop Linux is still a niche hobby/religion
ZedRM
Posts: 2,942 +1,962
No, I work in the tech industry and I see, first hand, how people use Windows. That's how I know. Stop lying.
People don't care to switch to Linux. That's the empirical bottom line.
ZedRM
Posts: 2,942 +1,962
And yet many are. More than ever before. That's the bottom line. Many more have switched from Windows to Android phones or iPhones as their daily computing platform. Microsoft has done this to themselves and instead of fixing the problem, they're making it worse.
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