Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months

Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:19:14 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:
 

On 04 Apr 2025 19:05:30 GMT, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:
 

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:31:10 -0400, Paul wrote:
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The TaskBar today in Windows, has a feature that makes it descend
below the bottom edge of the screen, yielding more screen space.
Microsoft did not invent that, but the MacOS did at some point in the
past (perhaps MacOSX 10.1 or so). Since that's optional, you won't see
that happening on every user desktop here.

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I never liked UI elements that move when you try to click on them

 
If you mean UI elements that are designed to be clickable, I appreciate
some kind of feedback telling me that it has registered the click. There
are many ways to do that, some better than others.

 
I'm not talking about the feedback, but movement that happens when you're
trying to click.
 

or that make you click off the screen (Windows 8.0 did a lot of that).

 
I can't think of an example of that, and I use Win 8 as my primary OS.
I'm not even sure how it would be possible to reliably clickck on
something that is off screen.

 
It's been awhile since I used Windows 8 (note hat I said 8.0 not 8.1), but
I do remember having to click off the screen for some things. IIRC, that
was changed in 8.1.

  Yes, AFAIR - even in 8.1 (my system came with 8.1) - there was a
'swipe' to the right edge and then click to get to some settings stuff
and a 'swipe' to the upper-left and then click to switch from the Fisher
Price GUI to Real Windows (TM). Very akward and counter-intuitive.
AFAIR, a side-effect of the touch screen UI.

  I switched from the Fisher Price GUI to Real Windows (TM) and
installed the Classic Start Menu and lived happily ever since. (Now on
Windows 11 (skipped 10).)

  N.B. Even Windows 11 has a bit of this silliness: I can move the
pointer off-screen to the right or to the bottom (below the Taskbar) and
click and it behaves as if the pointer is still on the Desktop/Taskbar,

  When trying to move the pointer off-screen to the top or left, the
pointer just hits the top/left of the screen.