• kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Brand new word (well not actually, I read it before in another similar post, but you know what I mean).

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    6 months ago

    That’s not nearly shitty enough. It’s too useful. Look at all the options and other clickable things you got on the start menu, and it only took one click to open it.

    That’s not how this works anymore. If this were truly made today, it would be needlessly “streamlined”, i.e. everything is hidden so as not to “clutter up” the UI with useful things, and make more room for…nothing. Just wasted space.

    We hide everything behind multiple clicks now because the “average user” starts bleeding out their eyes if they’re forced to see many things at once.

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 months ago

      Also, icons. The icons in Windows XP are too recognizable. You need to minimalize them. In fact, minimalize it so hard that not one person could understand what the icon is even referring to.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 months ago

        Abstract art icons.

        Folder: rectangle on its side. Start: triangle pointing up. Trash: rectangle standing up.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Whatever happened to her? I can’t even remember the last time I heard anything about Janet Jackson.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    241·
    6 months ago

    “Turn off computer” requiring admin privilege escalation is a clever touch.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    23·
    6 months ago

    I mean, Windows 98’s “Active Desktop” was pretty much this.

    Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they’re sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we’ll finally accept it.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      It’s the full start menu with one click, and the toolbar isn’t needlessly centered, so yeah. I’d actually take this over Win11

      • hobovision@lemm.ee
        2·
        6 months ago

        You can set the taskbar stuff to stay on the left, at least in the version of win11 I use for work.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 months ago

    That [Yes] [Remind Me Later] thing is so 2007…

    Nowadays Windows features all have a definitive [Off] option, that will fully hide the feature from view and only enable a daily message that pops under your mouse so you can turn it back on any time you want.

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    Honestly if Microsoft reintroduces the skeuomorphic UI I’ll tolerate any bullshit they pull. It’s just objectively pretty IMO.

    Also this start menu doesn’t have nearly enough useless negative space. Here is my work Win11 start menu for comparison:

    • lud@lemm.ee
      9·
      6 months ago

      How can it be objectively pretty in your opinion?

      Sounds highly subjective to me.

      For the record I think it’s ugly.

        • lud@lemm.ee
          2·
          6 months ago

          Unrelated but can Microsoft please update the old rsat tools.

          Yes the app “users and computers” work but it could have been so much better if it had a few adjustments like a search bar.

          When editing GPOs why the hell can’t I just change an existing setting without opening the editor and digging through the whole damn tree first.

          Shame the MS never will improve these tools because on prem is not the cloud.