Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode to offset some of its fluffier edges.
Plummer comes from what was arguably a golden era for the Windows operating system: the final days of Windows NT 3.5x and the advent of Windows NT 4. Although it has been decades since he was last involved in the Windows codebase, his code can likely still be found in the OS, in part, due to the blessing and curse of Windows's obsession with backward compatibility.
Plummer's complaints boil down to two main areas: a desire for a hardcore mode that optionally removes all the fluffiness added to the operating system for the benefit of non-technical users, and a combination of transparency and an end to the 'Microsoft knows best' attitude that has plagued recent releases. //
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DoctorNine
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Re: He is so right
With Windows 10, you could mostly stop the dog chewing on itself by constructing a registry cone around its head. Windows 11 though, is M$'s latest attempt to ensure we are unable to stop it gnawing a hole in its rear end, and not only that, there are freaking cameras in the room to record us even trying to do so. I can't even. //
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vtcodgerSilver badge
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Re: I watched the video. He's basically describing Linux.
The Windows registry would require comprehensive documentation -- which it doesn't have, has never had, and probably will never have -- to even begin to approach the utility of the Unix application specific configuration files. //
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If O/Ss were airlines - for those who've never seen it...
https://www.webaugur.com/bibliotheca/field_stock/os-airlines.html. //
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/releases/tag/v4.4.196
