• @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    391 year ago

    If only they didn’t intentionally give up compatibility with 250 million PCs by introducing artificial CPU requirements, then adoption rate would be higher…

    But blackrock and vanguard (they control ~15% of Microsoft, Intel, AMD) really needed to increase their profits by selling more CPUs…

    Also it didn’t help that until October 2023 the taskbar was completely broken and unusable, people like me forbid the installation of the os in the company for that reason alone

    • voxel
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      121 year ago

      the taskbar still broken and unusable.
      icons straight up disappear when you switch virtual desktops using the touchpad, tray icons sometimes don’t show up, messing with some things can cause an explorer crash

      • @trigonated@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        On my end, the icons disappearing happens sometimes when switching with the keyboard. Also, I happen to use full labels on the taskbar items (like on 95 to vista) and they’re all sorts of broken, especially when changing virtual desktops.

        Also, despite having quite beefy hardware (Ryzen 9 + 4090), I can’t use an image as wallpaper (only a solid colour) otherwise changing virtual desktops has like a inexplicable 1 second lag after pressing the shortcut keys.

        This is the kinda shit people would give up on Linux for.

    • @uid0gid0@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      This is what finally pushed me fully over the edge to Linux on my main PC. Nothing wrong with it but they just don’t like it.

    • @icesentry@lemmy.ca
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      31 year ago

      What do you mean by the taskbar being unusable? I used it on my windows 11 laptop way before october 2023.

      • @Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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        81 year ago

        Combined icons make the computer unusable for who has multiple windows open from the same application.

        For example if you constantly have to switch between 5 excel files you can’t directly click on which you need

        It’s the reason I can’t stand MacOS at all

        • @icesentry@lemmy.ca
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          11 year ago

          Sure, that’s not ideal, but it’s far from unusable. I’ve used the combined icons since windows 10 wqs released and never had any issues. It works fine for me.

      • You still can’t make it narrow or move it to the sides of the screen either. It sucks at work at 1080p because the taskbar takes up half the screen it’s so massive.

    • @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      Yeah, maybe a few delusional shit heads making insane decisions for absurd reasons completely insulated from reality by a thousand layers of abstraction isnt good and we should just count anything run this way as already dead?