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vlord
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Windows is becoming dumber by the day.
Effectively each patch lessens it effectiveness and dishonors all the hours of work we put in.
It has digital dementia and does not even give a crap about it, because it's in the so very late phases of degenerating that it doesn't even notice anymore.
Today I learned that, Apps you uninstall now still appear in your Startmenu. When you reinstall them, you most likely will have two entries, both look the same. You have to have luck to guess-click the right one and eventually your application will open. But a click onto the other (identical) entry will do nothing. You tend to wait a few seconds, though, because you know windows and how fucked up everything is so you give it some time, only to then be pissed because nothing happens and this repeats over and over again with no solution other than you deleting some cryptic entries in the windows registry, which is not recommended and can lead to system instability.

Truly, I hate the OS and software development of the last two decades so very much that you almost cannot imagine...

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  • 2
    ...do you hate it enough to just... you know... switch to linux?
  • 3
    Yup, I‘m using Windows mainly as a gaming OS for years now.
    I‘d go insane if I had to use it for work or something productive.
  • 0
    @tosensei since he's nagging about some start menu entry it's probably a windows application he wants to use. Else i would advice the same, almost everything is in browser now. I have five desktop apps:

    - vim

    - vscode

    - telegram

    - element

    - google chrome (whatsapp web and others..)

    and some command line tools. But my laptop is basically empty and because of that, i'm switching working on two laptops all the time without noticing which one i'm working on. Same setup, same kind of laptop
  • 1
    @Lensflare that's my main reason for keeping it this long. If unix had proper hardware support, I'd waste no additional time with windows :/
  • 0
    @tosensei I'd love to do that for real - and I already have a unix on my disk; but I'm the dualboot (or, rather triple-boot) kinda guy and therefore subject to all bugs and changes at once.

    Some software you won't find on Windows, some not on Unix, some things are not working on Mac.

    And if you really want no limits, you need all OS at once :cry:
  • 1
    @vlord well, you can always cram windows into a virtual machine, and macOS into a garbage can.
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