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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

These threads are exhausting. You can easily turn this off. I didn't even have to look up how, I right clicked the task bar weeks ago and just disabled it. I didn't notice it move because it had been off this whole time.

But sure... The ONLY solution is to ditch Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but how many "easily changed things" do you need for the camel's back to break?

I feel like I constantly hear of tiny little things that get worse in windows. Sure, maybe each individually is not a big deal, but it all is just forever added on, constantly creating a slightly worse user experience.

In the end, windows is not follow a very user-friendly/user-centric design.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Are you insinuating Linux (or osx for that matter) is well known for shipping well loved defaults?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's basically what it was for me. For many years I've had a folder saved on my computer called "registry tweaks", in which I've maintained a growing list of notes about all the settings and registry edits and other cruft I have to change to make Window less-shit. (Most of it is about the registry, but not all.)

That list of tweaks just kept getting longer; but there was also a growing set of things that were bad and unfixable; (various nags, and surveillance / telemetry etc.) . No one thing was intolerable, but as a whole - it just isn't worth it any more. It's easier to learn to use an entirely new OS than to continue to wrestle with the enshitification of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They replaced one button I never used with another button I'll never use. Oh no.