Gareth HalfacreeNov 24, 2023

Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:

* Show my installed programs
* Search my local files
* Provide access to system settings

Here is a list of things I do *not* want the Start Menu to do:

* Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
* Show tabloid headlines
* Show programs I *don't* have installed
* Search the web via Bing
* Show adverts(!)
* Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM

Thanks.

Show threadKieran McGuire
@ghalfacree for real, for real. New Windows features gonna undermine years of convenience and push me to Linux.
Nov 24, 2023 at 10:43amWeb
Show threadFerrichromeNov 24, 2023

@kieranmcguire @ghalfacree They’re making a serious mistake by watering down their operating system.

My gf knows very little about computers, but she can immediately tell her Intel i5 MacBook that she got for work is cleaner and snappier than her new Windows 11 laptop. Part of that is probably because the OS isn’t shite (say what you want about Apple, ya, but MacOS is still decent imo)

Show threadGareth HalfacreeNov 24, 2023

@Ferrichrome @kieranmcguire On the contrary, I find macOS worse than Windows in many ways - the BSD base means it's close enough to Linux for me to think I know what I'm doing, but then Apple gets in the way and everything breaks down.

I had a MacBook Air once. *Once*.

Show threadFerrichromeNov 24, 2023
@ghalfacree @kieranmcguire Fair enough, lol. I am not techy enough to need command lines and such - I do music and photo editing. I’ve been using computers long enough to know when an interface sucks, though🤣
Show threadBarryPNov 24, 2023
@Ferrichrome @kieranmcguire @ghalfacree In January, I bought a new Mac Mini: now on Sonoma. I still have the older Mini, “stuck” on Yosemite.
Yosemite never gives me erroneous messages about removable drives not being ejected properly (when they haven’t been ejected at all).
Show threadFerrichromeNov 24, 2023
@vandyke4ad @kieranmcguire @ghalfacree I haven’t had issues with that on my M1 Macbook Pro, although I do think the whole “eject warning” thing is really dumb lol
Show threadCaroline Bell Nov 26, 2023
@kieranmcguire The most well-funded Linux distros (like Ubuntu) have the same issue, so choose wisely.