Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
by desiarnezjr on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:52AM
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I understand that OSs are really complicated. I've been exposed to every one now for almost four decades.
What's dismaying is that in that four decades it's now just regression. I admittedly have used MacOS for a couple of decades -- simple and it works well enough, but always run Windows as a secondary OS and Linux "as needed".
Windows has gotten so ersatz and bizarro that it's just strange to me when I do use it every few days.
Windows 2000 / Windows 98 had it down. It wasn't fancy, logical, and it worked. It's been a confusing mess since Windows 7.
Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward
by bigbizisverywyz on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:16AM
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Windows 7 was probably the best it's been for a long time.
But you're right, they completely screwed up the control panel. If not for that then it would've been the new pinnacle (let us never discuss Vista).
Luckily that was a VM in my Linux box (the luck is that I use Linux, not Windows.) The Linux equivalent would be either cron or systemd, which are configured with text files that I can type full screen if I care. Microsoft made a ton of work building those graphical UIs and in some case the result is worse than not doing it and using text files. Note that GUIs are not magical. To do what I was up to I still had to look for documentation and eventually had to type some XML in a text area. That is to start a task after another one completed.