I actually liked it then, you could just roughly click in the area and would hit the right shortcut.
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The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago8 only gets hate because people lost their minds with the start menu change.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I liked the start page. I don’t use icons on the desktop though. Being able to pull up a customized shortcut screen was quite nice.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I can appreciate what you’re saying, but it’s a terrible idea to force a tablet paradigm in non-touch screen scenarios. 8 would have been fine if you could choose your start bar. Don’t say this wasn’t possible, because there was third-party software to make that happen.
The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I never said it was impossible to keep the old style. Though I do refuse that the start page is only useful to touchscreens. I would have preferred a bit more options than just large or small squares, but it still was a nice way to keep shortcuts close at hand without having them on the desktop. Bringing the shortcut screen over top of everything is much more useful than keeping the shortcuts at the bottom, on the desktop.
Frankly, I found it ridiculous that the start page got so much hate while stuff like bing searches being forced into the local machine search gets no reaction.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 month ago
It had multiple personalities disorder. Two e-mails, two browsers, two settings. It was confusing as hell.