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FractalAudio

FractalAudio

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What a steaming pile of excrement.

Seriously? After all these years this is what you come up with?

1. It's an ugly OS. White on light gray on just slightly darker gray. Or you can change the mode to dark and then it's black on black on black. But only for some things. Other windows remain gray on gray on gray. Inconsistency seems to be the one common theme in the OS.

2. Window borders are one pixel wide. So when you have windows on top of each other all this white and gray makes it hard to see where one window ends and another begins.

3. Scroll bars. Again, inconsistency rules here. In some windows the scroll bars disappear. You can turn that "feature" off but then the actual bar you drag turns to a thin line unless you hover over it. In other windows the scroll bar doesn't disappear and the bar doesn't change to a thin line.

4. Did I mention inconsistency? There's a settings "Applet" and also a Control Panel. They use completely different UI language. Some of the things in one aren't in the other but some things are common between the two. WTF is that? Oh, and in Control Panel it has an item "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)". WTF is that?!!! This is an upgrade from a clean install of Windows 10.

5. Lazy programming. I wanted to connect to our corporate server via the VPN. A window popped up asking for user name and password. Near the bottom it said something like "The credentials you have entered are incorrect". Not surprising since I haven't entered any yet. So I enter my user name and password, which are correct, and the message doesn't go away. I hit enter and the dialog box closes and I'm granted access.


The whole thing feels like it's just a money grab. I can't see a single advantage over Windows 10 (which was nearly as bad). I'm sure they'd tell me there's more "security" and "ease of use" but I don't see why that stuff couldn't have been added to Windows 10. The core OS under the goofy UI is the same.

The Start menu and Taskbar have been changed yet again and still don't feel like there's any logic to them. Screams "designed by committee".

But we get "Widgets" which are things that maybe some people use.
 
From what I’ve seen I couldn’t agree more. I have to “upgrade” one of my PCs to 11 to run TurboTax this year (can’t use the web version). Thanks, TurboTax.

BTW, what are the risks for staying on 10?
 
Windows 10 and 11 both suffer from being caught halfway between M$'s transition away from the good old Control Panel that started with the festering turd that was Windows 8. It's kind of a mess now. Some settings are in the new UI while others are still in the old UI. 11 seems to be more in the new UI camp, but still not completely. Because of backwards compatibility, M$ are too scared to pull the plug on it completely.

Apple has its share of problems too. With so many security updates these days, it's more likely for things to get broken in the process. They do have consistency going for them. For the most part, if you've used one iPhone, iPad, or Macbook you've used them all.

Linux is like the wild west. There's almost no consistency between different distros. Same problem plagues Android as well. They're all different enough to be irritating.
 
I have had more crashes with Apple products than with my PC. The core Windows OS is very stable. It's the stuff on top that sucks.

There are MANY programs that I use that simply aren't available for Linux so that's not an option (OrCad, LTSPice, Adobe, etc.). Also, many programs just don't work well under Linux (Matlab).

The Linux zealots have valid arguments but the OS simply doesn't work for some of us.
 
FractalAudio said:
I have had more crashes with Apple products than with my PC. The core Windows OS is very stable. It's the stuff on top that sucks.

There are MANY programs that I use that simply aren't available for Linux so that's not an option (OrCad, LTSPice, Adobe, etc.). Also, many programs just don't work well under Linux (Matlab).

The Linux zealots have valid arguments but the OS simply doesn't work for some of us.
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New OS means new programs. Search for alternatives. I'm sure you will be happy.
 
There's a lot of shit in there that screams either "change for change sake" or to funnel people into Copilot, 365 or Azure. Almost 4 trillion dollars in market cap and it's still not enough money for them.

I'm hopeful that the recent leadership shakeups at Microsoft will help push Windows back in the right direction because there's so much important stuff being overlooked or mishandled while they're desperately trying to get every man, woman, and child using AI for everything on their PC. I was worried about 11 when I realized that we were on the wrong side of "every other version of Windows is good" after 10 was legendary. Maybe Win 12 will be the way to go.

The only real bright spot I see is Pete Brown at Microsoft who's in charge of all things audio and is getting system-wide ASIO implemented soon along with a more sophisticated MIDI implementation. He's very active on Gearspace and is actively fighting for the pro audio people.
 
deathbyguitar said:
If it were that simple, I'm sure it would have happened many years ago. But the man is running a business.
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You need to be flexible and adapt to the market in business. See cloud computing, every company or authority use clouds and realize that they've increasingly slipped into the subscription trap and can't get out. Either you react or you perish. All the AI investments need to be payed. What do you thing how MS and the rest will manage it. You shall pay it.
 
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deathbyguitar said:
There's a lot of shit in there that screams either "change for change sake" or to funnel people into Copilot, 365 or Azure. Almost 4 trillion dollars in market cap and it's still not enough money for them.

I'm hopeful that the recent leadership shakeups at Microsoft will help push Windows back in the right direction because there's so much important stuff being overlooked or mishandled while they're desperately trying to get every man, woman, and child using AI for everything on their PC. I was worried about 11 when I realized that we were on the wrong side of "every other version of Windows is good" after 10 was legendary. Maybe Win 12 will be the way to go.

The only real bright spot I see is Pete Brown at Microsoft who's in charge of all things audio and is getting system-wide ASIO implemented along with a more sophisticated MIDI implementation. He's very active on Gearspace and is actively fighting for the pro audio people.
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Exactly. Much of it feels like "change for the sake of change".
 
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