@blakeyrat said:
More people are using Windows 8 right now than have EVER used Ubuntu.Where exactly did I ever mention Ubuntu? Nice strawman you have there.
@blakeyrat said:
1) Why the fuck would anybody empty the Recycle Bin? Ever?
Why do you need to pin the Recycle Bin to something?
The biggest change is the replacement of the menu bar, that has been standard on all Windows programs for 20 years, with the God Awful Ribbon®.
@blakeyrat said:
I can already see you're an open-minded considerate person, and not just a grumpy grandpa who hates all types of change. If you're just going to knee-jerk against the ribbon without even considering the ways it's superior to the previous mess of menus and toolbars, well, then there's no real point bothering to listen to your opinion, is there?How exactly is this:
A "mess of menus and toolbars"? That argument was false when Microsoft introduced The God Awful Ribbon® in Office 2007 and remains false today. And once again, you have trotted out the biggest strawman of all. "You old fuckers are afraid of change!"
Bullshit. If that was true I'd still be using DOS 3.3
What I don't like is pointless change that either (a) makes things worse, or, (b) doesn't make things better or worse, just different. If you aren't making it better, then you need to leave it alone because you're just making it worse.
@blakeyrat said:
In any case, I'd like to point out, again, we're all reading the rants of a person **who never actually even attempted to use the OS he's criticizing!*
And once again you're talking out your ass. I have used it. Otherwise I wouldn't be aware of any of these details. I would say it's more likely you are blindly defending something that YOU have never actually used.
@blakeyrat said:
Oh but look:@Mike_Hunt said:
However, having to resort to third part addons to fix things that never should have been changed in the first place,@blakeyrat said:
He had to install it. I guess someone held a gun to his head and said, "you better install this to get your classic start menu back, or I'll shoot all your Naruto action figures!"
When all else fails, resort to pedantic dickweedery.
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Windows Vista introduced the concept of The Administrator Who Isn't Really An Administrator and now Microsoft has pulled out all the stops in their effort to make Windows 10 the most annoying OS ever.Welcome to Windows 10, The OS Where Nothing Is Allowed. Everything you do will result in a dialog box telling you that you "Don't Have Permission". And I do mean EVERYTHING. Even something as trivial as deleting an item from the faux Start Menu triggers a dialog requiring you to Click Here To Provide Authorization.
@blakeyrat said:
If the item was on the computer's "All Users" Start Menu and not the user's, then yes: of course it requires UAC, duh. How else could it work? You're not allowed to shit over other people's Start menu without at least providing some Admin creds.Wrong again. This is not UAC I'm talking about. UAC is off. Just like I have it off in Windows 7.It does the same thing your beloved Windows 7, too.
And in Win 7, with UAC off, I get no security prompts when deleting items -- or doing anything else that I want to do. Once again you've demonstrated that you don't know what you talking about and have most likely never even used Windows 10.
Want to unzip a bunch of files to a folder that doesn't exist? No problem. Just give WinRAR the name you want and it will create the destination folder for you. Oops. Sorry. You're running Windows 10. The operation will fail. Even if you tell winrar.exe to "Run as Administrator". So you have to use File Explorer to create the destination directory first, then unrar or unzip into it.
@blakeyrat said:
I do not believe you.
That's your problem.
@blakeyrat said:
Since you're such an old crotchety elderly geezer, I'm guessing you're trying to unzip into something like System32 (because doggonit that's where we put our files in NT 3.5 and that's where I'm putting it now! Fiddlesticks!)
Wrong again. (Well, there's a surprise). No, I'm trying to unzip into Program Files. But, guess what, in pre-Win 8 you CAN unzip right into System32 if you want. No problems.
@blakeyrat said:
So I might believe you if you provided the experience of unzipping into a folder you actually have ownership of. But given what I've seen of your opinions so far, I do not believe you.
More poor reading comprehension. I specifically said unzipping into a directory that doesn't exist. Pre-Win 8, WinRAR (or many other programs) will create the target directory for you. Post-Win 8, doesn't work. Running as Administrator? Check. Take ownership of the entire C:\Program Files directory tree?. Check.. Winrar.exe running as Adminstrator? Check. And it still fails and you have to unzip/unrar somewhere else and then copy to where you really want it.
Try to create a shortcut in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu" so that it will show up on the Start Menu. Yes, here in the 21st century this is still the only way you can add an item to the Start Menu. Sorry. Permission Denied. But, you can create the shortcut on the desktop, and then drag it to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu".
But you wouldn't know that because you've never actually used Windows 10.
Note to Microsoft: I don't have permission?? IT'S MY F***ING COMPUTER!!
@blakeyrat said:
Unless you're a crazy-person who absolutely loves to see your favorite web sites get DDoS'ed and wants the Russian Mafia to be hugely financially successful, I don't see how you could possibly object to this.
Please explain how making it more difficult and/or annoying to delete Start Menu items or configure things as I see fit, on my computer, prevents the Russian mafia from taking over the world.