Msg: Re: OT: Win-10 Updates

And I'm with you Kari, as regards points 2 & 3.

After our freelance IT consultant became gravely ill some

years back, never to return, I did what I could to fill in for

him, even thoughI'm just a hobbyist whose tech capabilities

are just a tiny fraction of what his were. This was pretty

much adequate though, up through Win-7, and we did not

need to call in any outside help -- although we came close

to doing that a couple times. With the onset of Win 10

(which for us is pretty recent, because we held off on it

for as long as possible), I have basically thrown up my

hands. Admittedly, I have not dealt with it that much --

by choice. My exposure to it just repeatedly hit a very
frustrating brick wall. It was all so very unproductive

and time-wasting: a constant annoyance of "WHAT are they

calling this longstanding feature NOW, and WHERE have they

hidden it ?!" Said functions are most likely still there, but

change for change sake -- or maybe simply to justify the

sale of the new product -- seems to have become de rigeur

for MS. Productivity becomes largely about familiarity, so

mucking about with what had been a pretty decent, proven,

well-established UI has not yielded any improvement that I

can see. Quite to the contrary. Not any more than that

misguided foray into using those Tiles as an integral part of
the UI, which was introduced for Win 8.

And some things that worked totally reliably under Win-7

don't seem to work properly at all under 10. Like Drag & Drop

functionality for the TeraCopy utility. I've read a few purported

fixes for this online, but haven't yet come up with one that

works.

I expect that I'll keep hammering away at 10 on a couple

boxes, when time permits. While I have managed to make

a few things less objectionable, I'm thinking that in addition

to Flash's detailed recipe for shutting down the obnoxious

invasions of privacy, I'll want to do whatever is practical and

non-destructive towards "turning the clock back" on the UI,

to make it more 7-appearing and 7-working. I was already

aware of things like "Classic Shell", which aimed to preserve

the XP UI. If that marks me as standing in the way of

"progress", so be it. I just want to continue on productively,

with the day to day stuff that I do -- which does not change

much. (As has been the case with XyWrite and its users,

albeit perhaps the extreme example.)

Jordan

On Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 6:58:00 AM PST, Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I think both sides have good points. In this vein,

1) Win10 is technically very advanced and is a real upgrade to what we
have seen before in the Windows realm and much easier to use than Linux
(or even Mac as the Mac's interface may be too streamlined),

2) messing up the user interface of Win7 was completely unnecessary from
a desktop user's point of view,

3) Win10 could benefit from a total overhaul of its architecture, which
is too much based on accrual of features upon features and bug fixes
upon bug fixes (the programming culture at Microsoft has been too
"democratic"),

4) Windows could adopt a Linux-like package update system and a (more
easily ("out-of-box")) interchangeable desktop style. Why not give a
Win7 interface option to those used to it?,

5) on the other hand, I find Windows file management in its current
state quite good (compared to Win 3.1x, Linux Midnight Commander or even
Total Commander which is a good option for Win 3.1x). I still use DOS
XTree Gold in DOS virtual machines (old habits die hard)!

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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