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> Our laptops are sleek and polished. Our operating systems are fluid and intuitive.

This is clearly a joke. And a cruel one.

Laptops are just two steps away from overheating and falling apart no matter how much glue they put in these days.

And operating systems are laggy and messy. They have still 50% of laggines and 90% of messiness of what was the standard two decades ago.

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"fluid and intuitive" I must laugh at this too. I need a search tool to find my installed programs and settings. Most of the time i need google to find out, if a changeable setting exists ;)

Operating systems are stupid since many years, on every new Version i think "god, please change not too much", cause on every new Version things not getting better and not easier and not smoother.

Yes, they look nicer, they have more "blink" and more animations, but all of this not help me to work better or faster.

>I need a search tool to find my installed programs and settings.

as if simply typing the name of or keywords for what you want to find into a search bar isn't fluid and inuitive?

Assuming that you know the name of your volume manager is "gigolo" and that your remote desktop client is "remmina," etc. If you're lucky the program might have a reasonable name, but still your OS decides the most likely thing you're looking for is ancient manuscripts... http://i.imgur.com/0ePB9sT.png

For some reason, when I search "mount and blade"; dracula.txt and equator.txt show up. For some reason processing comes with several books from project gutenberg by default, and they show up when I look up some programs.

Well there is always the Gnome way, where the menu entry has one name (Archive Manager) but the command has a very different one (file-roller).

If I type "add printer" into the search on Fedora (Gnome Shell), the first item in the list is "Printers" with helpful text letting me know that this is the tool for adding printers. It's much easier than it used to be, IMO.

You still found "Printers" which is probably it.

And if you not know the exactly name?

Example i type "browser" -> nothing found. And i am absolutely sure i have installed chrome, seamonkey and ie. ;)

That's why the applications are supposed to have relevant tags that are looked at by the search.

Animations help a lot of people to better understand what is going on in the machine.

You are viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses if you think OSes were better twenty years ago.

OSes were better twenty years ago because they were more predictable and stable because they couldn't do as much, especially if there was no multithreading. Limitations ensured stability and reliable performance. Today, it's too easy to overload your system.

Except now I just realized that 20 years ago was Windows 95. Dang, I'm getting old. :(

They were neither more predictable nor more stable. Twenty years ago, if an application crashed, so did the entire OS. Twenty years ago, applications and the OS were very tightly coupled and they would both deliberately and unintentionally trample on eachother, often with disastrous consequences.

Maybe not stable, but perhaps predictable (at least outside of the MS sphere) because there was not as many interconnected processes bouncing around in the background.

As an OS/2 user twenty years ago, I disagree. Really, it was about twenty years ago that I switched to Linux which didn't crash due to a simple application crash either.

Stop making me feel old. :)

Windows 95 sucked so bad. Not missing multiple bluescreens a day.

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