How nice of Windows to spam me with notifications when I temporarily fill my scratch disk, despite turning them offā¦
Iām also annoyed by it. I get why it exists, as Iāve met people with zero clue about drive space, but Windows really shouldnāt permanently attach training wheels to the bike.
Iād love a Windows hard mode button, but I guess thatās just Linux now. If only work didnāt need me to have Windows.
āWhy doesnāt Windows have an āexpertā mode?ā (2003)
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030728-00/?p=43043
Feels like his response makes sense on the surface, but ultimately silly. You donāt need to be a guru at Active Directory or GUI development to know how to navigate your OS competently.
Regardless, Iād even just opt for a, ādonāt fucking bother me about literally anything,ā button. But then Microsoft canāt push whatever bullshit product theyāre trying to give you exposure to or sell.
microsoftās version of āhard modeā is removing gui for settingsāhiding them them in registry entries or (unavailable in āhomeā edition) group policyā¦ or removing them completely and needing actual hacks of binaries to do.
Oh, I duel boot. Unless you mean going back to Windows 98, I did that in a VM once to play old shareware games.
How long do the duels last? If your chosen OS loses, do you boot into the winner OS, or do you come back the next day?
Never seen it, what does the feature do exactly? Is it new to Windows 11?
If only we had Windows Hard Mode for real. Letās you break your system as intended. Delete system files, no notifications, nothing.
Too bad not available in this universe.
creating and maintening 2 windows is hard, and they know that more hard mode people can, and probably going to linux, thatās why they are supporting more and more linux, so they donāt lose that consumer
It would be a simple boolean flag to turn off all of the hundreds of useless spam notifications windows insists on using. Not a hard configuration setting to add.
I would expect there to be some tools that fixes Windows, for instance I got annoyed at the start menu and switched to an alternative.
Or else there were some super slim win2k3 images (~200mb), I hope thereās some slim win 10/11 images available?
So sick of all the feedback, rate us, try this feature, whatās new, turn on feature x, etc. that seems to be a part of everything nowadays, even Linux apps. Linux wasnāt this bad only a few years ago and mobile OSs cranked this up to 10.
- If I want to rate an app, Iāll look under feedback in the help menu.
- If I want to see whatās new, show me the changelogā¦once, right after I update.
- If I want to turn a feature on/off put descriptive toggles in the settings menu.
Everything that can be seen from the default view should 100% revolve around fulfilling the function of the app for the user. Human attention is a finite thing and we shouldnāt be wasting it on shit like this.
If an app asks me to rate it, or checks what my rating is going to be before sending me to either a feedback form or Google Play, depending on my response, then it instantly gets a 1 star review
100%
My banking apps CONSTANTLY harasses me with garbage, and the options are either to concede or to āskip for nowā.
No, I want to skip for always!
I just thought of something that was missing from terminal softwareā¦ welp, time to get to work.
Do you wish to subscribe to lsblk premium for only 19.99 to see all your storage devices? (Y/n)
Weird that my wife got no such notice when her HDD was completely full. Yesterday she came to me asking why she couldnāt install something. I checked her HDD and it was 100% full. No notifications for her at all.
I donāt get a single one of these popups and annoying things the entire Internet seems to get. No ads, no notifications, no popups, nothing. I donāt get it. Itās like thereās a metroPCS windows that everyone is using.
Iām the same used windows on my gaming pc most of my life and never had any of these popups. Iām starting to think itās the Linux fanboy herd over exaggerating things to push false news. The Linux fanboys on this site are worse than fucking conservatives.
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