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Yes, I do agree. The one that haunts my dreams: the credentials one 😤. Credentails come up and you start typing and... nothing.. god damn it, not again!

I think it's obvious I'm a sysadmin 😂.

It is actually easier than you think. With the help of the devs, you could easily solve your problem, plus make them aware of the bug and fix it in upcoming releases. It might take a few days of messages on git back and forth with them, but in the end, yes, you will most probably solve your problem.

No, you Google the shit out of that particular problem, visiting reddit, forums, blogs and god knows what else, find a few bunch of registry files or reg snippets, copy/paste that, do a sanity check on each and every one of them, backup the registry (or a part of it at least), import them one by one in the hope that one of them fixes the problem... and then you discover that these were meant for Windows 7 and not 10 and that 10/11 had that shit removed or doesn't actually obey that registry entry (a bug, they will fix it... some day...) and then just give up and learn to live with the problem.

Never ever buy combo shit. Remember the DVD reader/CD burner combo crap back in the day? They were good at neither reading or burning anything. Thank god the fully featured DVD burners went down in price and these things died.

The memory dump it does is useless... like anyone is ever gonna take a look at that memory dump. Disable it, it just wastes disk space.

And that is why I use fish. Well, one of the many reasons, lol 😂.

My guess is, they had to run it in parallel. So many things relied on the old UI, not to mention run/cmd commands (printui, netplwiz to name a few), that simply just putting modern replacements for those things would have broken every single printer share, user credentials manager, etc., there is out there. So, they decided to run them in parallel. Smart choice if you ask me, since they own most of the desktop market share, if they decided to make a 180 turn on this, that would have cut a significant portion of their user market share... not to mention companies that heavily rely on MS products being pissed AF.

They were transitioning to the new Metro look, that's why the 10 different places for the same setting.

And seeing how slowly Control Panel is being transitioned to the new Metro Settings app, I'd have to guess that that thing is so deeply intertwined in the OS and so many things rely on it, that moving to something new is painfully slow.

Actually, Linux in general, not just Ubuntu. You could even update the app while running said app (like your browser). It won't crash, you just have to restart it in order to use the new version. You could literally be running every single app that the update updates and it won't crash. Once loaded in RAM, there is nothing tying it to the place where it resides on disk. You could even delete the binary if you'd like, it would still keep running... unless you close it, then you won't be able to run it again, lol 😂. There are a few exceptions though, like services (daemons), but that is only in systemd land, other init/service managers will allow you to just restart the service and load the new updated version of it.

Keeping a Pro or a Home install up to date is not always a good thing. From a security standpoint, yes, I do agree, but when half your personal files go missing after an update... you kinda start wondering why you let this thing update automatically in the first place.

LTSC editions though, yes. I leave them to autoupdate. They do it like once a month anyway, so it's not that big of a deal anyway, it's not really such a big problem. And the updates don't take that long, no new features are added, just security updates and that's it.

So, if you're worried about security and being up to date, I'd recommend the Windows LTSC editions. That is the only thing I ever install if I have to install Windows.

Well, Steve did tell them they have a gold mine with the mouse thing and other innovative solutions they had going... they didn't listen 🤷... a bunch of hippies doing weird things according to management, a waste of time and resources. Oh well, we're just gonna take your ideas, thank you very much 🤷.

Shit happens 🤷. It happens to milti-billion dollar companies as well, like MS. In fact, it happens a lot more frequently (and it's more destructive) than it does with Linux or any other POSIX based OS. I have yet to see an update deleting all my personal files in /home.

Troubleshooting problems is about the same IMO, if you're familiar with the OS and how things work (in general). You just use the terminal more in Linux, since you'd have to open the file manager as root in order to troubleshoot, and that brings a whole other set of issues, like file permissions if you happen to copy a file to, let's say /home/<username>/Desktop temporarily, for troubleshooting. Ah, but now the file has root permissions, not the permissions your user has, and root is the owner of the file, so basically, your user only has read permissions, that's it. You can't move or delete the file. In order to move it or delete it, with a GUI, you'd have to open up the file manager as root again and do it from there. And that is why using the terminal to accomplish these things is so much simpler. You just add sudo in front and that's it, the command will do whatever root could do. And then you realize that just copying and renaming the file to filename.bak in the same location where the file originally resides is so much quicker and better. You can delete or move the file just by adding sudo in front of the command, no file manager needed.

So yeah, troubleshooting is more or less the same IMO.