Comment on How I'd fix Windows as a retired Windows Engineer
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day ago
Great line at the end:
…Windows tries to be a friendly town for everybody and the zoning board forgot to include a neighborhood for the weirdos who build their own furniture. We don’t want to take over your town, we don’t even want to change it. We just a workshop with sharp chisels and permission to make a mess. Give us that and we’ll stop complaining about the art you choose for City Hall.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i don’t understand the analogy, what is that actually referring to?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
“You do you but let me do (and fuck up) my own stuff. And stop preventing me doing that”
cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 day ago
I take it as them saying: give those interested the tools and ability to mess with deeper systems and customisation and ability to break things. That doesnt have to change the experience for everyone else.
billwashere@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Honestly what Microsoft should have done was sorta what Apple did with BSD but with Linux, write a killer front end but leave the Unix bits underneath. There’s your workshop to make a mess.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
that’s what i mean, i don’t get that criticism. what can’t you do with windows? what specifically are they asking to do?
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Yes, I know there are ways around each of these but the settings are all in different places, Microsoft keeps changing where the settings are, resetting to defaults on OS updates, and at least for trying to use it without a Microsoft account, actively closing loopholes for doing so.