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Unprecedented Linux Growth in Europe Amid Windows 10 End-of-Life (blazetrends.com)
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[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Still in disbelief how they wreck it even in the simplest things.

Remember how clicking the audio system tray icon would open... The common audio settings and nothing else, idem dito for the network icon. For some incomprehensible reason they jammed those system tray icons menus all together a few years ago, you need more clicks, it's less intuitive and less efficient. For what reason? No one knows.

Remember how right clicking an icon would open a quite extensive context menu? Gone. Now it's a few BS options I never need. For example "open with...": gone. Now in the freaking context menu you have to click "more options" for another, full context menu to appear.

Incredible BS tiny changes with a big negative user experience impact I truly cannot grasp why they'd do it. Only reason everyone sticks around is (bad) habits, vendor lockin and obligations for certain software by school or work who insist on keeping Microsoft because they themselves are also vendor locked in or just very very scared of change.

[โ€“] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not to mention the other great features of the shiny new context menu: Annoying little lag when opening, and changing of the content about 1.5 secs after it has opened โ€” right when you have started to click some item so you end up doing some random unintended thing. Chefโ€™s kiss

[โ€“] gabelstapler@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago

I think this is the smartphonification of the desktop. Android and iOS hide most settings, it works out of the box, while the user has no idea what's happening in the background. To be honest: at least the reliability of the software has drastically improved. Nowadays the network just works, so no need to know the details. I remember the days of Win95 and BNC network, where it always took an hour and several tries until the network was up.

[โ€“] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Try managing your printers in the modern interface.