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this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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When I was a child I actually learnt quite a bit about my computer by reading all the settings of Windows XP and customizing them.
I hope this doesn’t prevent someone from the next generation to do the same thing…
It will. It's already happening with phones. Younger people know nothing about how computers work.
Just put the search results in under the search bar, bro.
Hey Windows, set my taskbar to run vertically along the left side of my screen. 🖕
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Because coming up with a UI that doesn't suck is too much work
WTF! Just keep it!
You know that friend who wants to sell you his laptop but keeps showing you know it works instead of letting you try it? That Microsoft. So I say fuck them, just keep the fucking thing if they love it so much that they can't let me use it the way I want to use it -> Linux.
It feels like Microsoft is really going all in on this AI trend. Probably because they are well aware that they missed/were late to every major trend since the 90s (e.g. the Internet, music players, smart phones, gaming consoles,...) and they don't have that much to lose any more with Windows' inferiority becoming more and more apparent. So they are probably going for the high risk, high reward strategy where they will either lose the desktop OS market completely (in the likely case AI turns out to be just a regular hype cycle) or win big by being early (in the unlikely case that AI turns out to be much better than it looks like right now AND having expertise with this will help with better versions of this once they show up).
Magic creates a need for wizards
How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .