• Pyro@programming.dev
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    It’s especially bad when it’s stuck like that for hours, and you have to make a gamble with a force restart.

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      Spinners must die. I don’t care if I don’t understand what exactly you’re doing, Windows, (I’d be surprised if you knew), but show me something, anything about the steps you’re currently doing, so I can guess if you’re doing something at all.

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        They could actually show you a command prompt / terminal readout, which shows warnings and errors when things just outright fail and the process is borked… but that would scare people, apparently.

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          LOL, yup! I was just going to reply that people find that scary, and then got to your last sentence. Idk why it scares people. I love seeing the output.

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            Even if it scares people, why not provide a goddamn toggle to enable it for the non-dipshits?

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              Because MSFT long, long ago abandoned the concept of giving users choice, or just in general not treating them like idiot babies.

              Brings me back to when I was contracting with them, same time Win 8 came out.

              MSFT does what they call ‘dogfooding’, ie, every worker is alpha/beta testing basically all MSFT software all the time.

              My team was managing SQL servers and running queries. SQL Manager, and a whole bunch of other shit completely broke when 8 came out.

              It initially did not even have the ability to go back to a Win7 style interface.

              They truly believed that limiting all office workers to a UI where they could have, at max, one pane on 1/3 of the screen and another pane on 2/3rds would be completely fine.

              We effectively could do no work for about 1/3 of our contract.

              Working at or for MSFT is a curse I would only wish upon my worst enemies.

              I actually had to quit another, earlier contract as my manager expected me to work overtime without pay. Before that, my one cool boss just showed me that I was being paid about 1/3 of what MSFT was paying the contracting firm for me.

              And that is to say nothing of the massive racism that all the American employees just looked the other way on: Pretty common for Indian employees of a higher caste to treat Indian contractors of a lower caste like total dogshit, and the line from HR was ‘its their culture!’.

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          Windows was designed with the average computer user in mind.

          The ones that don’t understand the difference between internet and wifi.

          But a button to show this CLI would be nice.