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user-inactivated  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Users of Windows 10 please check in and vent, praise or say whatever you think of it.

OK. Mostly does what is supposed to without being obnoxious.

Not a fan of the start menu. I turned off web search from the start menu. The program and file results are ordered in a way that might be based on some weird priority from past file and file type use, but it must be using some assumptions that don't fit me. I don't like it.

Win 10 continues the same "let's make imaginary folders mandatory" idea that win7 Libraries started. I like libraries in a couple specific cases, but in win 7 & 10 they get in the way more often than they are useful. Also my mom just doesn't quite understand them. If it can't be explained by nesting actual files and actual folders from her file cabinet, she doesn't want to bother with it, but she has added folders to libraries without realizing, thought she had accidentally copied and pasted again, deleted files from the library, and then been surprised when they disappeared from the original folder too. So they aren't powerful enough for me, and not mom-proof enough for her.

The virtual desktops feature is an important step for Microsoft, bringing to windows a FUTURISTIC FEATURE that OSapple didn't implement until '07, Unix and Linux didn't start playing with until the early nineties, and Xerox PARC was so behind they didn't even think about it until the late eighties.

Unfortunately, Windows' virtual desktop implementation feels gnome3ish, and I really prefer KDE.

Windows does have some nice snap-to-edge-resize candy though.