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CowboyTeal writes:
"Windows 8 is still being disputed as either the product of a genius or a nerdy sadist but that doesn't mean Windows 9 isn't in the works. That said, how would you guys improve Windows if you could change anything about it? Has windows 8 improved or degraded your overall experience of the Windows platform? If you're not a Windows user, what features would you like to see in Windows for possible assimilation?"
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by mcgrew on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:27PM
I'm running Kubuntu on my main tower and W7 on this notebook. Windows needs feature parity with Linux. I can shut the tower's power off over night and just hit the power switch in the morning. It logs me in and reopens everything that was opened when I shut it down.
Windows hides stuff from the user. Example, the first notebook like this one (later stolen from me in a burglary) it took me two months to find out how to shut off that awful "tap to click" feature. Rather than being in mouse control in the control panel, it was a dozen clicks down in an obscure, unlabeled icon in the tray.
I installed Linux on that one, it took one minute to disable tap to click.
The old joke used to be "your mouse has moved. You must now restart your computer." Windows has improved in this regard, but not nearly enough. In Linux you only have to reboot for hardware repair or kernel update. With Windows you have to restart it, sometimes twice, every time you install or remove a program. You have to reboot every single month on Patch Tuesday. With Linux, if there's an update you get a notification, one click and it updates while you continue doing what you were doing.
But the stupid part is, it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to shut down all my files with a reboot, nor open them back up.
I think rebooting is my biggest gripe with Windows. That, and I want my tools to be obedient. I shouldn't have to fight an OS to get it to do what I want it to.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:10PM
1) Why not use hibernate?
2) The tap to click "feature" is often controlled by the touchpad software.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday March 03 2014, @04:31PM
2) The tap to click "feature" is often controlled by the touchpad software.
That's another highly annoying thing about Windows. It's not consistent machine-to-machine, because hardware vendors load it up with a bunch of crapware tied to their hardware. Why should I need to use vendor-specific crapware to configure a touchpad, rather than using a configuration module built into the OS and accessible in Control Panel, which looks and works the same no matter what machine I'm on (assuming it has a touchpad)? On Linux, it's all the same; the userspace programs are part of the OS distro (KDE for instance has its own touchpad configuration module), and work using standardized interfaces with device drivers for devices from different vendors.
(Score: 1) by EvilJim on Wednesday March 05 2014, @12:40AM
1) because hibernate != reboot
(Score: 1) by umafuckitt on Sunday March 02 2014, @07:58PM
Absolutely. The rebooting is nuts. I recently had to do a couple of fresh Win 7 installs and the whole process takes A G E S because after it's installed it has to download updates. It downloads a few then it reboots. Then downloads a few more then reboots again. Painfully slow. Furthermore, there's still no way to uninstall multiple applications at once. So removing the crapware from a laptop can take an hour or so.