And yes, Notepad and Calculator take much longer to start now than they ever did - not sure if it's SmartScreen, a Store Update check, or if SEND_DIAGNOSTICS is enabled on production builds, but I bet it's some Program Manager making some idiotic decision because some useless KPI requires it.
It still feels like they just break UX to support touch devices better than older UI would. I might just be showing my age, or out of touch, or perhaps because I only use Windows for work but I have no intention of ever using touch on a device running Windows. My laptop screen support touch and I turn it off as it's and unexpected behavior to me (if I touch my screen I'm probably just pointing at something/showing to another person).
Of course that doesn't mean it should have been loading so inefficiently regardless.
Am I supposed to play a multiplayer game when it takes 10 minutes to open and another 5 in queue and then few before it starts?
Blizzard launcher downloads 137 MB to launch some games EVERY time. In fact some game did not even start, probably due to mismatch of version on the patch server and game server. Nobody in Blizzard seems to notice nor care at all. The whole management board should be fired.
I remember paying 10 dollars for starcraft remastered and it plain didnt work, because blizzard doesnt bother to fix their battle.net app (all they did was try to rename it to blizzard app). Now statcraft bw works, but it didnt for few weeks.
You finish your work, want to start the game and it cant even start fast.
Touchscreen-first design does this to apps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Technically incorrect, I don't ;)
This is reasonable, but what is incredibly annoying is that when you type in a number while in Programmer mode, if you then change to Scientific mode, it blows away the number you typed in.
(I guess one could argue that programmer mode should include IEEE-754 floats, but I'm fine with that mode being limited to integers, it's plenty useful already. But it does require switching to another mode if you need a calculator to calculate floating point numbers)
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What I do on any Win11 machine is keep an archived copy of Windows 10's System32 folder, and pin the old copies of apps to my start menu.
...From my cold dead hands!
Windows really needs a simple default hotkey to do a partial screen capture quickly, and save it to a reasonable directory.
Seriously, is your post satire or you think 23 mb for a calculator app is good?
Whole windows 95 (including a calculator app) fit in 16MB of RAM. In fact even less, since you could run few programs on top of it too. Connect to internet even..
23MB for a modern calculator in this day & age when many apps are written in Electron/EdgeHTML/web technologies is pretty good
Do people even use uTorrent anymore after the advertisements were brought in? I use qBittorrent when I need some Linux ISOs and in an idle state it's using 20MB which isn't bad either.
The ancient version of utorrent (before ads) works fine.
What's bad about it? For me it always does the job whenever I fire it up. Looks sleek, clean, scales nicely to whatever size you make it, and isn't distracting.
In Programmer mode if you type in a number larger than 32 bits and the window is scaled to its smallest size, the lower row of binary is cut off a little bit.
TBH date calculator is my most used feature there.
But calculator app in macOS... Real horror.
Try to open units converter from top app menus.
One day your boss comes: your calculator is obsolete, you need to use the one on the wall with every number being 25 x 25 cm (10 x 10 in). Good luck
Also, the new calculator kept the same standard layout as before, it's not like they now shuffled the numbers and buttons aground randomly to confuse you. If you're that easily confused by a coat of paint, maybe you're in the wrong job.
And yes, workers did have to switch calculators from time to time. Source: my mom, an accountant.
I get it, "Microsoft bad, Windows bad", but your argument is a very weak nothingburger.
Am I really the only person who has a copy of "calc.exe" from win 2000 that replaces c:\windows\calc.exe immediately after any windows [re]install?
MIT license.
if you're complaining without a plan of action to address the complaint, you are speaking for attention alone.
fork it and fix it, then use that version. open your fork so you can help others.
you other commenters can continue to complain and whine endlessly or you can put your money where your mouth is and actually do something.
what's it gonna be?
You should never be working for a for-profit organization without compensation.
There's a somewhat decent argument to be made for non-profit organizations, but there's none for for-profit orgs like Microsoft.
you open source people, man. you give all developers a horrible reputation. put up or shut up, lol
I have no idea what you want to express with your second paragraph, though.
I have to say I'm disappointed seeing you defend exploitative labor practices.
* Patching the binary locally without its source code to do what I want it to do
* Submitting a patch upstream to an open source project
and arriving at the conclusion that the latter is preferable.
Doing free work for an employer is always parasitic with regards to its employees.
You have a third option here which you didn't list, which is forking the project into one which is working in favor of the public; removing the CLA and giving each contributor shared ownership of the project. Your contribution should then be made to that project.
do I have to tell everyone what the MIT license allows?
Telling /users/ who are NOT community members to make changes to some corporation's application that happens to have source available, in their free time, and then donate that labor to some billion dollar corporation? fuck THAT.
Fix it your own damn self, Microsoft. I have better shit to do.
it only counts if it has "libre" in the name? MIT-licensed isn't good enough? WTF
like solitaire
My work only currently only give machines with 16GB RAM which gets eaten up by Edge/Teams/Outlook, security applications incl. Defender and then any dev tools on top of that. Trying to campaign for 32GB machines but bureaucracy takes its time in the public sector. The IT team have also just removed Paint 3D for some reason via InTune.
Just opened Paint right now on my Windows 10 desktop and it's using 13MB of RAM for a blank canvas.
For pasting a screenshot and putting some rectangles/arrows on it, it works a charm.
Something to be said about Paint!