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Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

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1725 points taubek | 2 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.258s | source
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oliwarner ◴[27 Mar 23 07:25 UTC] No.35323842[source]▶
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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1. sumo89 ◴[27 Mar 23 08:37 UTC] No.35324306[source]▶
I use my PC infrequently, just for video games when I get time. It feels like every time I turn it one, maybe once a month, it's done an update to somehow look worse and worse. One of the latest changes is the search bar in the menu bar now has scroll icons and is double height despite being empty. It's like they don't do visual QA.
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2. vladvasiliu ◴[27 Mar 23 10:05 UTC] No.35324794[source]▶
I live in France, but usually use an English UI. So when I updated my gaming PC, I just saw a "search" or something, figured "wth?! start menu already does that", and kicked it off the taskbar.

Then a few days later, a colleague shared his screen, with the French UI. The text was cut off mid-sentence. Something like "type here to". The remainder would have actually fit if not for the random icon displayed at the right of the search field.