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It's always frustrating to see Microsoft keep going all in on digital assistants that nobody has ever asked for, while the core of their products is still completely broken.

For example, I have multiple Win 10 PCs where explorer completely falls apart and breaks if you leave the PC on for more than, like, 2 days. It's been like this for years. Whenever Win10 has updated over the last 2-3 years, it's just been to do offensive stuff like running a full-screen ad, or force-enabling a literally useless search box. That's how backwards these devs are. They track usage of the search bar, and they think the reason nobody uses it is because they don't know the feature exists. Even though it only gets hidden when somebody turns it off, on purpose.
I think the most recent update to Windows did nothing but make the "News and Interests" menu annoyingly expand to the top of the screen Windows 8 style, instead of being a compact menu - and this behavior can't be changed nor can I find any acknowledgement that they even did this and it's not some kind of bug - granted this probably a "Google is completely useless in 2024 problem".... but Bing's AI doesn't have an answer either. So at this point I think they're just getting a laugh by screwing around with the small number of people who even bother interacting with their bloat... So why would we trust them that any of the new bloat could ever, possibly, in a million years be good?
There current Windows product owners seem to have the sole goal of making users as uncomfortable with Windows as possible. Why?

Not to forget mentioning the slow animations, bad layout, clipped corners, and general awfulness, of Windows 11, Edge, Etc. Maybe they should check to see if their loss of market share has anything to do with people being unhappy with the current state of windows, before shoving another 100 gimmicks down everybody's throat, which also won't ever get functional.

Fix your crap Windows. In the very least step back and acknowledge that the mad rush to buy Chromebooks in 2020 had nothing to do with the GUI or features - and had everything to do with how you could buy a kid an entire computer for half the cost of a retail Windows license.
 
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Giroro said:
It's always frustrating to see Microsoft keep going all in on digital assistants that nobody has ever asked for, while the core of their products is still completely broken.
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Meanwhile there's a report out there that Linux is now basically at 4% usage. It was only a few months ago that it was 3% desktop usage.

We keep hearing that Microsoft's intransigence will never ever translate to people becoming Linux users, yet it is Windows that is on a 20 year decline and Linux is higher than ever. So, yeah, people are switching after all.
 
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Meanwhile there's a report out there that Linux is now basically at 4% usage. It was only a few months ago that it was 3% desktop usage.

We keep hearing that Microsoft's intransigence will never ever translate to people becoming Linux users, yet it is Windows that is on a 20 year decline and Linux is higher than ever. So, yeah, people are switching after all.
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And?
Have you personally made the jump to Linux on all of your personal systems?
 
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If Microsoft really goes all in with AI, I'll consider making Linux Mint my daily driver OS. It would mean having to pay for Rider as a replacement for Visual Studio, but it might be worth it depending on how bad Microsoft makes Windows. I already had to buy StartAllBack just to get a left-aligned task bar...
 
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I already had to buy StartAllBack just to get a left-aligned task bar...
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Unless you mean something else, this is built into Win 11.
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USAFRet said:
Unless you mean something else, this is built into Win 11.
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I actually meant having the taskbar docked on the left side of the screen, not just the icons being aligned to the left. I should have worded that better. Prior to Windows 11, support for that was built-in. I also am not a fan of having always-combined window groups and no window titles in the bar. StartAllBack solves all of these issues, thankfully.
 
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