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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)
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[–] MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

He’s completely overlooked the thing that annoys me the most: the unbelievable number of clicks you need to make in Windows/Microsoft to get anything done. – Saving a file to a folder of your choice:

  • Windows: Click ‘Save’ -> Click ‘Choose a different location’ -> Scroll down to skip all the favourites and default locations -> Click the drive where you want to save the file -> Find the folder -> Click ‘Save’
  • Linux: Click ‘Save’ -> Go to the folder -> press 'Save'

Not ot mention my recent attempts to rename a Bluetooth device (two devices of the same type were displayed under the same name, making it impossible to tell them apart) 🤮

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft screwed this up when they tried to make onedrive the default and therefore purposely made saving to disk harder.

Now you need to know the F12 shortcut to bring up the expected behaviour breaking decades of muscle memory.

[–] AnalogAllamma@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Onedrive is a fuckin' pain in the ass! Sends your files to Microslop and the files on your pc become shortcuts.

I went back to Windows10. Much easier to create a local account upon install. With Win11 they make you jump through hoops.

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