Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:37:42 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

Fucking Win11!

MS peaked with win7, it's only gotten worse since then.
Hate to think what 12 and 13 will be like.

My favorite new "ohmigod, why is Windows 11 like that?" discovery is
that Notepad, if you shrink down the app's window-size to about
800x600 pixels across, also starts cropping its dialog boxes... even
if they'd still fit perfectly in that reduced space.

E.g., smallify the notepad window, and your "find" dialog box loses
the "replace all" button until you stretch the window out again... and
there's no evidence that it's done so except that the button is just
gone.

And I know, 'why are you using windows notepad anyway; there are so
many better options' but it's the default on Windows for TXT files and
I've never bothered to change it even though -for most things- I do
use other apps for text editing.

But it's this sort of rampant "we know what you want better than you
do" attitude which permeates Windows11 (and really, all of Windows
ever since Win7) that makes using it such a chore. God knows where
else this sort of behavior appears.

(Microsoft is also adding fonts and font-effects (bold,underline,
colors) to Notepad in the next update. Because that's what people want
from a plain-text editor apparently.)

Ugh. Windows keeps getting worse, but macOS and others are too. I miss the old days. :(
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