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Comment by timpera | Hacker News Reader

I wouldn't be so certain of this. People on HN hate it for sure, but this is a bit of an echo chamber.

Non-technical users aren't fans of random UI changes either. On the contrary, they hate having to re-learn shit every whatever-the-fuck years.

Welcome to Hacker News 26! I know you're trying to read a comment now, but would you like to take a tour of new features?

[ ] — Yes, I'd welcome a half-hour distraction from the thing I need to use the computer for right now!

[ ] — No, I want to get my thing done now but then be confused about missing or new buttons at random intervals for the next six to eighteen months!

At least I can actually say no to this! Maybe I'll even not be reminded about it again in three days!

This is very unrealistic, it would say: [ ] — Yes, I'd love to!! [ ] — Not now - Please remind me in 5 minutes to do the important guided tour

No,lots of people hate it. The biggest haters I know in real life are non technical users.

However, they will continue to use it so MS does not need to worry about them.

At least in the comment sections on tech/PC gaming YouTube people are frustrated with it there too.

On the other hand YouTube tries to serve me content I want so maybe thats just the algo talking.

people tend to complain more than comment on being content. A fraction of a percent of windows user base is a lot of people. ( given around 500 million.... 1 percent is 5 million people ish, it would seem to me much much less than 5 million people are generally complaining)

I think the Windows user base is substantially smaller than 500 billion.

sorry, million :)

I don't have an issue with it and I started with 98. There are somethings I'd change, but I do feel like I read a lot of hyperbole.

Provided I only largely use my PC for gaming.

HN users are the global thought leaders and (hate the term) influencers in technology and what they think has massively outsized impact on the way the tech world works.

>"HN users are the global thought leaders and (hate the term) influencers"

I've no idea about leaders as those do not write here much. As for "influencers" - my golden rule is to research subject I am having doubts about and pay zero attention to what so called "influencers" say.

You'll never know if the person you abuse on HN is Sam or Cook, since they use alts to plant ideas or assess damage their misdeeds are causing.

I was talking about getting "influenced". I do not base my research on what's on HN. Prefer to find and read articles on specific subjects.

and other hilarious jokes we can tell ourselves :P

There's a fast-follow "You're absolutely right!" from Claude pending here. :)

If this is a joke, it was a very good one.

If that were the case, every single project would be hosted on Hetzner with a Postgres database and everyone would be running Linux desktops everywhere. It's not happening.

God. The pretentiousness.

Clearly leading something alright

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