I have a feeling that Windows was better in the past (before Windows 8). It was better adapted to the current state of technology. All software was in a crappier state 10 years ago. But now it seems that everything is getting better but Windows is going backward. Today there is even software that is run in a headless browser.
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You are basically building a website that you run as a desktop application. The weird thing is that some of those apps run better than windows apps. You know that you f**ked up when a website has better performance than your native applications. It’s like an amphibious car winning from a speedboat.
But then Microsoft decided to make it even worse and introduced the windows store. Here is a print screen from my store. Do you see the problems?
It’s in 4 different languages!
I live in a country with 3 official languages, but Russian and English are not one of them. The thing is, my system is configured to use English, so it would be normal that everything would be in English. But Microsoft is smart, and they know which language I prefer. So they took a language that is primarily spoken in the southern regions and also used the language that is primarily used in the northern region. Added some random English words in it. And then top it off with 1 Russian word. I actually don’t know if it is Russian if I try to translate it from Russian to English, it translates to ‘Prylady’. When I googled that word I did find this website: ‘http://prylady.by’ which seems to be like a hardware store thing. Which is pretty close to what the 4th tap of the Microsoft store wants to be. (It would be computer hardware, not actually machinery.) Is Mircosoft giving me a hint about the quality of the goods? Is it as good as Russian quality? (The only thing I know about Russian goods is that they tend to work better after some ‘percussive maintenance’).
The next thing I hate about Windows10 is this thing:
You see how my drive is utilized 30%? What if I tell you I have 3 drives and only 1 is being used 100% while the rest does nothing. How can you tell? Well, you can’t. You have to revert back to the old days to be able to use things like this:
The next thing I hate about Windows is setting a picture as a background. You would think that something that simply can’t go wrong. But what if I tell you I have multiple monitors? Ah, the problem starts! I right-click on the foto, then select ‘Set as desktop background’ and poof all my backgrounds are the same picture. But I want different pictures for my monitors. No problem, you select 2 (or more, it actually doesn’t matter that much) then do the same thing. You select ‘Set as desktop background’ and poof, the pictures are randomly set to one of your monitors. There is no way to choose to which monitor you would set it. A logical solution would be that there would be a drop-down box when there are multiple monitors detected. So that you can do: Right-click image, then hover over ‘Set as desktop background’ a dropdown box would drop out and you could choose between desktop 1, desktop 2 or set for all desktops. Can you imagine how easy that would be?
When using Windows, you have to start gambling. Will it work like you think it would or will you need to buy a 3rd party app. There is also another option you can try. You can go to the ‘background’ settings and there you can mess around with the settings a bit until you are allowed to select different pictures to multiple monitors. Then you select the images you want and set them as background. Now they should (hopefully as it doesn’t alway’s work.) be shown in the list of background you can select from. And now you can select which image you want for every monitor. If you have the bad luck as me, then one image will be shown twice and one image will not show up in the list. In that case, you need to keep setting the background images until that image randomly happens to be set to the monitor you want it to be. Then you can change the other images to what you want. (Should not be a problem with 2 monitors, but the party starts with 3 or more.)
The next thing I hate is the sync integration of Onedrive and Windows. just after my fight with my background pictures, I opened my laptop and saw that my background was changed to one of the new backgrounds. It seemed to have selected the background from my first monitor. That was actually fine for me. Then I started my main computer and saw the horror. It had synced the background from my laptop to my main computer! I had to do the background fight all over again. Why? Why does Windows do a double sync?
I decided to turn of OneDrive but then noticed that my desktop icons didn’t load properly. It seems that the desktop icons cannot show a miniature version of a file without OneDrive. So I then decided to turn it on again in the hope that nothing else would fail. A few days later I played a game with cloud sync functionality. Nothing wrong with that right? After 10 hours of gaming, the game saved like it usually does and decided to upload a version of the save to the cloud like it alway’s did, but this time I was greeted by a BSOD. My computer crashed and the error I got was something about a cloud driver failure. I first thought it was the game’s fault. But it was not the game, it was OneDrive. If I turned off OneDrive the game would not crash anymore.
To game or to have working miniature icons on my desktop. What to choose? Apperently Windows can’t do both!
No wonder that Microsoft gave the Windows 10 update away for free. Who wants to pay for this shit. Windows 10 still has 2 settings menus, (Yes ‘Control Panel’ still exist and is still needed for some stuff.) after 2 and a half years. It still keeps changing my language settings every update it does. I still haven’t found any good use of that notification center or those life tiles! I can go on like this until Windows decides it wants to update when I’m getting something to drink. In the past, you need to save early and often if you didn’t want to lose your data, but nowadays even that isn’t good enough:
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