Windows 11's inconsistency

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

You highlight something in Edge and release your finger from the button? New menu. Now you can copy it directly! Great! No need for right clicking every time, right? No! It only works in Edge! You want to copy from Outlook? Nothing! You highlight in Word or Excel? You can change the font of the selected text! No copy option!

You expect it to work a certain way and then it just doesn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I love right clicking, but expecting not having to and then still needing to click it is just… inconsistently inconvenient

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JASN_DE@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s a Microsoft issue, not necessarily a W11 Problem.

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- Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Buddy, wait 'til you hear who makes the windows OS…
  
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  - Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    [product] is causing issues. But that’s an issue with [product], not [company who designed and created product]
    
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- BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  But Windows 11 started this inconsistency!
  
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  - Cris16228@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Like the inconsistencies with the whole system. 1/3 windows 11 style, 1/3 windows 10 style and 1/3 windows 7?
    
    That OS is half completed and released it like that. Glad I switched to Linux ages ago
    
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sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You forgot the generations-old menus and settings windows.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
<chuckles on linux> “he doesn’t know how to use the middle mouse button!”

(for people who may be unaware… in most linux distributions- all of them that I’ve used, and I’ve used a fair number; clicking middle mouse with cuts and pastes the text.)

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- Ditti@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Correction: it will copy, not cut. It’s also not using the actual clipboard, so you can basically have two things “in your clipboard”, which can also be a bit confusing.
  
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- suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fun fact, Edge still has this stupid behavior even on Linux, so highlight and middle click doesn’t work properly since as soon as you highlight it pops up that stupid menu. You have to go into the menu and disable it before highlighting works correctly again.
  
  Signed - someone who is fortunate enough to be able to use Linux on my work machine (yay!) but is still forced to use Edge on it (boo!)
  
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  - FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Wait…. You can get edge on Linux?!
    
    TIL.
    
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Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There was only one time when Microsoft cared about having consistent UI and even did a lot of research on how to make operating system easier for people that didn’t use computers before. It was when they developed Windows 95.

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oyzmo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
One of the many reasons why I shiftet to Linux

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