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> It's more about the user experience and in Windows, it's horrible and user hostile.

How so?

From where i'm sat every application i want works and i can do all my business / leisure tasks with relative ease.

I actually don't know what i'd even want or need to improve my user experience with WIN10

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1. Taskbar inability to show Date and Time when using small buttons. Is designed around vertical layout and does not allow for horizontal layout. 2. Show all applications reorders the listing by which application was last used versus Gnome tries to retain the a constant display allowing for muscle memory interaction. 3. Windows and be dragged and show off the viewable area making them hidden and having to move the application onto the screen using arrow keys. Some Linux DE prevent hiding applications off screen area. 4. Taskbar still does not work properly when placed at the top of the screen. Some applications will open up and display the title bar in the area, hiding it behind the taskbar. 5. File System; MFT cannot handle resizing and just keeps growing even when files are deleted. 6. File System; Does not allow for modifying file names or managing files while they are open. Want to rename that PDF files that was downloaded to the title showing in the file? Must type in notepad first or write down then rename while in Linux just read and rename while the PDF is open. 7. Volume display will stay on screen while mouse is over the area which so happens to be a common area for application interaction. Pointless delay of interaction while using another means to raise or lower the volume. 8. Windows updates often requires reboots while reboot is only needed on core features. Often restarting the service or DE refreshes to the newer version without a restart. 9. System registry corruption solution a complete reinstall; files versus central binary repository. 10. Linux allows for a complete move from hardware to hardware using as system rsync with run-time directory and file exclusion and retention of permissions. Windows cannot do this requires a long install time with the inability to have a 100% equal environment to the previous system right away without spending hours re-configuring it.

> Taskbar inability to show Date and Time when using small buttons. Is designed around vertical layout and does not allow for horizontal layout

I am confused. Also you can add an extra line break so the formatting of your comment is better with each bullet on its own line.

https://thundercloud.net/infoave/images/2021/time-date-on1.p...

https://www.thundercloud.net/infoave/new/show-or-hide-the-da...

Or use 3rd party app for time formatting. It got yanked on W11 though. I sorely miss it.

https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock/releases

I keep a windows VM (Aws lightsail, 2 cores) in case my my app fails to build on it. It was usable but only when disabled Windows Defender. I joked about it to my wife who uses MS suits that Windows is made for running Windows defender. She has smooth ride on her 8 cores laptop.

I was also frustrated how much downloading I had to do to compile a simple c program. Chocolaty is what makes me not give up. Poweshell is good too.

I am kind of surprised that its that close to Linux performance!!

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