BlueRoguesDevel

Anything to get people to forget about Epstein, while he blows up more little girls in Iran.

Apologies for not replying to you right away. I intended to follow up but HN wouldn't let me because my account is too new. No, it wasn't a random snipe. I used Windows extensively from 95-Vista and Win 10 for work. In my person user experience W11 is bafflingly bad, and the MS team are making design choices that honestly make me feel like Windows ME was doing more right in that area.

Now the argument that genAI is helping them find and fix bugs faster has a lot of merit because it can be pretty darn good at that. But for lack of a better phrase, 'The Windows 11 Experience' feels, as other users pointed out too, either vibe coded or like the dev teams went insane. I live and die by Debian in my servers and I really hope the same kind of thing doesn't happen to them.

This was a problem in STEM going back to when I was in Uni almost thirty years ago. And even further, historically. Isaac Newton famously popularized the scientific cant as a way to keep understanding of the art from overwhelming the peasantry, and he got the idea from Alchemists.

That being said, I've noticed over the past decade that Wikipedia is especially bad about piping in every new fad-term, and it seems new buzzwords with too many syllables keep entering the scientific lexicon every other month. I have a Physics degree from the turn of the millennium so I would naturally assume I would be able to read any random Physics-related article and, if not know the wheelhouse of its exact subject, at least recognize all of the words. But I don't. And quantum physics has lost its lexical mind IMO. Renaming 'rotational inertia' to 'moment of inertia' in classical physics jargon was bad enough to upset me, and I do NOT know what the QM and HEP guys have been smoking for the past three decades. That's my anecdote.

People only organically coined the term "doom scrolling" because of it. They may as well have issued a study concluding that "water is wet."

I hope it works out better than Microsoft and using it on Windows 11...

How did I miss this? I have a stack begging to try this out, and for the same reasons as OP. Thank you.