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I am so tired and this is only my 4th year.
Clicking on a URL in a non-browser app? Surely you want to see that in Edge and not your default browser.
Yeah and every file type opening in edge for some reason? Annoying.
I’m so sick of this. Didn’t they catch a lawsuit over this the first time and have to make it so you can uninstall it?
- The search in the start menu searching the fucking web with bing instead of my computer
- Accidentally hitting F1 and Edge immediately opens with some “help”
Try MSEdgeRedirect, friend. It won’t stop it from opening a browser, but at least it won’t be Edge.
I switched to Linux Mint, it helped as well!
Having to use the wrong slash everywhere
I’d actually like it if it was backslash for local paths and forward slash for remote paths. But if you connect to a cifs share, it still uses backslashes, so the whole thing seems pointless
On my old computer whenever I would launch my computer, the desktop icons would be randomly strewn around the desktop. I had to get a utility app that I would run manually every time my computer started in order to fix it.
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A lot of software did not run under windows NT4. Especially stuff that used the soundblaster directly.
Plug-n-play never worked, and drivers for hardware usually only came on floppy for DOS/win3/win95.
For some reason USB-drivers were not installed by default, either. That’s after swapping through 18 diskettes during installation. Just copy it all if you’re going to have me be a human jukebox.
Being told I should switch to linux
Sometimes friends, in their curiosity, come up to me and ask me, Jordan Belfort-style, “Sell me
this penLinux.” Why do I like it so much, they wonder?And I always tell them:
"Linux is like… the vegan OS. (bear with me) Mac and Windows people don’t really care about OSes. People who switch to Linux either find they couldn’t be assed to deal with it, or they love it, and those who love it love it. Then they always tell people lol.
A good thing though: because everyone’s such an opinionated nerd, the lateral set of problems you run into won’t be ‘solved’ by random Microsoft Forums
/sfc scannows or arcane regedits, but by a nut who debugged the entire thing 30 minutes after the bug came to exist to find a workaround. True story.Buuuut Linux is more of a lateral movement in terms of problems, it’s just a tool after all. You solve Microsoft Recall and start menu ads but run into new but tiny annoyances. I find Linux problems easier to fix than Windows ones because of the nerd army thing but if your Windows setup works for you, it works and that’s really all that’s important. If you do start Linuxing though you’ll learn a lot just by osmosis."
And they usually laugh and decide to keep their routines in place. Don’t hate me vegans.
MS Edge, its a good browser. But fuckin hell does Windows love to shove it in your face every chance it gets.
Use MSEdgeRedirect to use your default browser.
Ctrl+c not copying on rare occasions. Even if it’s my keyboard’s fault, it could be avoided with some visual feedback to confirm to me that ctrl+c was registered ans clipboard was updated, so that I’d immediately know that it didn’t work after pressing ctrl+c, rather than later when i switched to a different window/tab and pasted the wrong thing
The fact that i can’t route audio between apps (without 3rd party closed-source apps). Why is something so basic not included into the system?
Registry
As a c++ dev: winapi. Right away you are greeted by windows.h adding loads of macros with common identifiers without any prefix to your preprocessor. That’s a sign of things to come for anyone who has to use it. Maybe that explains lack of open-source audio routing apps: nobody wants to deal with windows driver development for hobby - and if that’s the case i sure can’t blame nobody for that.
I have to use it for work, and I hate how links to other apps, say a Teams meeting, dot open up the app. Rather, they open a new tab in a browser, only to open the app while leaving a blank open tab in the background. It’s just sloppy as hell.
A nonsensical amount of filepaths absolutely fucking everywhere to check for things.
Having to verify something installed/uninstalled correctly.
Pushing the button that says it does a thing, and it not actually doing that thing.
OneDrive, I fucking hate that thing. Rest I can tolerate but OneDrive really grinds my gears.
It’s rare and fixable, but every now and then I download a file and it just fucks up my icon cache and makes Explorer practically impossible to use. Some other issues I’ve encountered is that if you have a ton (and I mean it, over 10k) of fonts, then apps in general start lagging (VLC and Figma are the ones most affected by this), and that Defender is a bit too good and causes certain apps to lag like mad since it sandboxes it iirc
