by nilsandrey on 10/4/21, 11:09 PM with 88 comments
by userbinator on 10/5/21, 1:29 AM
We’ve improved the experiences for touch in Windows 11 when you’re using a tablet without a keyboard. You’ll see more space between the icons in the Taskbar
What if I'm NOT using one?
Thank you Microsoft, for taking away even more customisation, dumbing down the OS to new levels, and shoving more adverts in our faces. Now people have even more reasons than before to try Linux or macOS.
A new era for the PC begins today
You're right about that --- an even more locked-down and user-hostile (all in the name of "security", of course) era begins.
As a long-time Win32 developer who started writing utilities for DOS and then moved to Win16 for a short while, the direction that Windows (and the PC platform in general) is going is really sad and horrifying to see.
by Someone1234 on 10/5/21, 1:28 AM
Four months public beta wherein they fixed almost none of the major problems. Listened to almost none of the user feedback. Massive inconsistencies and half complete ideas abound.
This isn't the worst Windows I've tried, but it is perhaps the worst RTM. If this was still in public beta I'd call it "serviceable" as a daily driver if you can deal with the quirks.
But RTM-ing this? Shipping new computers with an even buggier build than the latest? Ouch. My barely computer-literate relatives should not walk into a Costco and out with a computer with this initial experience.
by easton on 10/5/21, 1:25 AM
Also, WSL graphics support (which isn't coming to Windows 10 for some reason), winget has been moved to stable (that is coming to Windows 10), and Windows Terminal is included in the box (but doesn't replace the cmd.exe or powershell.exe terminal emulator for some reason).
by johnebgd on 10/5/21, 1:37 AM
by devwastaken on 10/5/21, 1:41 AM
Windows lost 10% market share to mac and Linux since 2019. Microsoft should be firing more people and having singular leadership in direction. Make something for the developers, the graphic artists, the people that need their operating system to be apart of their work, not hinder it.
This falls on deaf ears of course, Microsoft is far from saving unless something significant of top leadership gets the boot and somehow attracts a new visionary that isn't already working in greener pastures.
by davemtl on 10/5/21, 1:51 AM
by lopatin on 10/5/21, 1:43 AM
by lowlevel on 10/5/21, 1:31 AM
by worldmerge on 10/5/21, 1:56 AM
by literallyaduck on 10/5/21, 2:06 AM
Not a rhetorical question.
by znyboy on 10/5/21, 1:48 AM
In my case on a Z270 PC from 2017, a BIOS update enabled the dormant and otherwise unadvertised TPM.
by mistergoodwin on 10/6/21, 1:59 AM
Notes: I had switched to Edge back when it became Chromium based. Privacy aside, it's not IE and it works for me. I don't tweak the OS unless there is friction with getting what I need done, if my apps run it's doing its job. If I need extra functionality then an application is responsible to add it, not the OS.
If you're trying to do something dramatically different to how the base OS works then obviously its not the OS for you, if you have no choice then try working with the OS and not against it. If you're trying to run old applications based on old APIs then you need an old OS don't expect them to always work in future.
A lot of complaints seem to sound like people who want to use a linux-based OS but for some reason refuse to? I'm also curious what customisations are being made, are they actually functional or are you just spending too much time on r/unixporn and trying to make things pretty, please elaborate on your griefs.
by codebook on 10/5/21, 1:50 AM
by nassimsoftware on 10/5/21, 1:16 AM
by listic on 10/5/21, 2:34 AM
Can anyone please explain what TPM (2.0) is and whether it works for or against me?
by rubyist5eva on 10/5/21, 2:04 AM
by dnndev on 10/5/21, 1:43 AM
Make a new OS without the windows debt.
by dataflow on 10/5/21, 1:39 AM
by talentedcoin on 10/5/21, 5:29 AM
by markbnj on 10/5/21, 2:04 AM
by sieabahlpark on 10/5/21, 1:15 AM