It’s completely inconsistent with traditional Windows design language and there’s no “Cancel” button or an X in the corner to click on so you can’t cancel out of it with your mouse and have to reach for Esc on your keyboard

It also tries to funnel you into a shitty Microsoft service

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    6 months ago

    I think if you click outside of that pop-up it disappears completely, which as you say is totally inconsistent with everything else in Windows, but it is at least possible to get away from it with the mouse.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      The mishmash of old Windows and the more mobile phone-esque design used in places like the Settings App (🤮) really irks me. Makes the whole thing feel unfinished, not that I would want them to finish what they’ve started and make everything else look like a phone too, mind you

      • tacofoxEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        As someone who has been working in IT, been using SCCM and WSUS to manage windows 10 pc’s since 1807, including LTSB versions, I can attest to how awful the winNT and modern OS integrated has been handled. They slowly take away legacy settings and processes, only to be replaced by some crappy UWP system application, or they just straight up have no alternative.

        I hate that it has started to become a better OS, and with tools like powertoys I’ve been able to make it damn near great, only for them to be moonlighting it for windows 11. And the whole cycle continues as they have just made the OS even more fragmented while still having the same issues win10 did.

          • tacofoxEnglish
            5·
            6 months ago

            Lool I thought the same as I read it back

          • tacofoxEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            I fully agree, though I believe PT and the addins are created and are curated by independent developers within Microsoft.

            Seems to me that we’re lucky to have it at all haha.

            The new best feature for me is screenshot OCR, the window manager is life, the launcher is good but win+r is still quicker most of the time for my usage.

            Things like the explorer file preview are extremely buggy for me and I have to keep it disabled

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        I’ve started using Windows with Windows 98, and they’re basically three UIs that clash with each other:

        1. The OG UI design that started with Windows 95 and continued up to Windows 2000 like this: https://stealthsettings.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/change_ip_v4_address.jpg

        2. Stuff added in from Windows XP to Windows 7 like this: https://blog.usro.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/windows-10-classic-control-panel-1024x607.jpg

        3. That Metro-phone crap that started from Windows 8: https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Windows-Update.png

        Honestly, people don’t talk enough about how the XP-Vista-7 stuff clash with the 95-98-2000 stuff, but it’s there. Microsoft fucked up again by layering yet another UI design on top of the first two, and it just looks like ass.