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Re:What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective by cm2187 on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:00PM (#16140218)
Windows 10 has its own UI problems. It is very chatty, possibly even more than Vista, there is an almost permanent flow of notifications on the bottom right corner of the screen. When searching for something in the start menu the result is completely unpredictable, and searching for "control panel", "mmc" or "adapters" usually yields nothing, but sometimes it does. The permanently evolving two control panels makes that even when you learn where a setting is, it can move to another panel within 6 months. There are many rough edges. Like you launch a remote desktop connection, you get a grey window asking for credentials, the login is not selected by default and no keyboard shortcut allows you to select the login box, you must use the mouse. I really question whether Microsoft engineers even use their own OS.
Re:What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective by revelation on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:59PM (#16140440)
My biggest problem with Windows 10 right now is that with creators update, they basically decided to break scrolling on touchpads. Instead of smooth scrolling, you now move your fingers a bunch, then the whole screen shifts suddenly.

This completely breaks scrolling. My eyes can't properly follow that and the touch component is off: you move your fingers, nothing happens, then suddenly a lot. It's not continuous, which makes no sense for finger interaction.

Apparently it's because the app has to support the specific touch input events for scrolling and before creators update, they would simulate it. Now they don't. I really don't give a fuck for their reason if it means even scrolling in Explorer doesn't work anymore.