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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by smegger001 on Friday June 23, 2023 @05:11PM (#36452207)
you would think they could figured out that programs not directly opened by the user shouldn't be able to steal focus from the program the user is currently interacting with. seems like basic UX/UI failure
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by causality0 on Friday June 23, 2023 @07:37PM (#36453697)
You're talking about people who haven't figured out you should be able to edit the options on the right click menu from a single settings menu and that the task bar should expand and contract dynamically with the number of open windows. Microsoft stopped improving the Windows UI around 2006.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by Aerbil313 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @09:03AM (#36458357)
You’re talking about people who use Macs.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by smegger001 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:48PM (#36473884)
desktop user interfaces on all 3 main operating systems peaked by 2010, at that point everything became aimed at clueless cellphone users.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by account42 on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:01AM (#36477728)
This is actually pretty hard to get right. Just yesterday I was confused why opening my text editor under KDE didn't pop up a window. Turns out some update to KDE's focus stealing prevention (or some other involved component) changed things so the new text editor window got pushed behind existing windows.

This isn't an argument for not trying though.

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