I had no issues with Windows 8. Guess that makes me an idiot. Thanks.
We’re talking about Windows 10
You’ll be reinstalling a lot of stuff every time Microsoft gets a wild hair across its asshole. Take a screenshot of your add/remove programs and stash it somewhere so you can remember all the stuff it will break and uninstall for you in order to put you back to that fucked up excuse for a start menu.
I think you are trying to say something like:
“the intro was with Win8, now that we are at Win10 it can’t be considered the source of the drama anymore because it was a previous version.”
If that is what you are attempting to say, I think it’s pretty obvious why the source of the drama can be due to a change that happened in a previous version.
Or maybe you are thinking that the Win10 UI is very different from what people vomited over and that my “source of drama” doesn’t apply to Win10 because there is zero similarity between Win10 and Win8?
While my post was an exaggeration, objectively, there was and is significant unhappiness with the Win UI changes after Win7.
It wouldn’t be true even to say that there is ZERO similarity between Windows 8 and OSX.
As I mentioned upthread - if you don’t like the tiles on the Win10 start menu, it takes a few seconds to make them go away forever, and you end up with something that looks and behaves like a more modern, mostly-better version of Windows 7
People resist change because it causes them pain
Change causes pain when it is big
Change gets big when you resist it for too long, and get left behind
Windows 8 wasn’t all that bad. It was the wrong product for the market, but the reaction and drama was very silly - it wasn’t bad in the technically-flawed way Vista or ME were bad - it just ‘looked scary’ to a lot of people, and got badmouthed by a lot of people who never even really tried it.
Just because there is a remedy doesn’t mean it’s not disruptive and a net negative to have to figure out how to revert the system to a more usable state.
It reduced usability for a significant percentage of users with no long term net positive. That is a technically flawed UI.
Most Windows users perform some sort of customisation after installing or buying any version of Windows. You’re making something out of nothing.
Windows 10 is a stable, relatively secure, capable modern OS - it can be very simply made to behave in a comfortably similar way to Windows 7 without any need for third party skins or add-ons. There is very little reason to fear it, and plenty of good reasons to embrace it.
That is the helpful assistance I am trying to offer the OP, or anyone else faced with the fear of upgrading from Win7.
My problem with it, & I’ve avoided getting it on my PC by still using Win7, is that they broke stuff that was around since the beginning of Windows, at least 3.1.
I’m a keyboard user, meaning I use lots of shortcuts, <Ctrl> + {This}, <Alt. + {That}, etc. instead of doing things I could with a mouse. In Win 10 they put in that @#$%& ribbon that they introduced in Orifice 2007 but in doing so, they broke or at least altered the shortcut keys that have been around for literally decades. One must use the mouse as the keyboard shortcuts take more steps & you can’t do certain things unless you’re in the right part of the ribbon.
I’m not a violent person but if [del]a[/del] sereral nuclear ICBMs were to suddenly fall on Redmond, WA I wouldn’t shed a tear.
Have you a link about how to do that?
Here you go:
The part you want is ‘pin and unpin tiles’, but it’s so simple I might as well quote it here:
Once you have unpinned all the existing tiles from the Start Menu, the tile area will collapse down and the Start menu is then just a single column of folders, shortcuts, etc.
Which shortcuts are you missing in Windows 10? I have to confess I don’t use keyboard shortcuts a lot outside of the very basic copy/paste/insert within applications - but as far as I can tell, the ribbon items in, say, Windows File Explorer still seem to have keyboard shortcuts (at least where a keyboard shortcut makes sense)
Cite?
In my experience, Windows users seem to fall into three categories.
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Those who are too scared or too uncomfortable to change ANYTHING.
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Those who do experiment and customize.
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Those who are using a computer on which their corporate IT dept discourages or actively prevents any changes whatsoever.
I’d be very surprised if categories 1 & 3 don’t substantially outnumber 2.
funny, I’d think the fact that macOS and Linux don’t run any of the programs they use would be a bigger problem, but what do I know?
Thanks, Mangetout.
Anymore, the main program used by a huge percentage of people on their desktop is simply a web browser, and Firefox/Chrome are available on all of the major platforms.
Desktop apps are a declining market. Even so, Microsoft Office is available for macOS, and can be made to run on Linux; the same is true for the Adobe Creative Cloud.
I have no cite - it’s merely my impression from experience of supporting both corporate and personal users that the folks most resistant to change tend to be the ‘got it just how I like it’ mindset - i.e. they have tinkered with a few appearance settings, shortcuts, folder structures and are comfortable with the changes they have made.
No problem. Oh, I forgot to mention:
Left click the Start Menu button to get the main start menu - mostly folders, but a few shortcuts to power down, log out, etch
Right click the Start Menu button to get a different menu of more administrative, Control Panel-y sorts of things
What you are ignoring is that for most people there was no need to customize for something like Win7 UI to be a reasonably productive model of interaction.
This is precisely why there was such a massive backlash, because MS broke something that didn’t need fixing in the first place for people that never had to customize anything in the past.
I did exactly this and it’s a beautiful thing.