Re: I honestly do not understand how people put up with Windows

On 2024-09-02 07:35, Tom Elam wrote:

On 8/31/2024 6:42 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-08-31 14:23, Tom Elam wrote:

On 8/30/2024 3:14 PM, Alan wrote:

I've been forced to use a Windows PC lately to do some work in Word where Microsoft has not seen fit to provide the same UI in Word for macOS as it has in Word for Windows; specifically surrounding what they now call "Content Controls" and which any normal person would call form fields.
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It's not that the feature doesn't exist in the Mac version of Word—it sort of does, but there is no user interface for creating or modifying the content controls on the Mac. Microsoft just left them out! So, a Windows PC has become necessary to do this work.
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And I'm doing so on a somewhat dated surplus PC I got from one of my clients, but it's a decent midr-range machine: a Lenovo T450s first released in 2015. And I've updated it to Windows 10.
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But actually working on it is AWFUL.
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The screen is awful. The rendering of fonts is awful. The fluidity of the trackpad and pointer is awful.
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Using Word with a pointer that doesn't move fluidly is awful.
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Understand, this is not a problem with understanding how to use the Windows UI.
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I'm just comparing the quality of the experience of how it behaves against the gold standard...
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...and it is coming up as dross.

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It's an 9 year old machine designed to run a Windows version prior to V.10 and it does not have a SSD. Get a more modern machine with solid state memory.

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You think changing to an SSD will make the mouse move more fluidly?
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That the Word UI will suddenly stop being janky?
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Interesting.
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Until quite recently, I was running a MacBook Pro from 2015, and it was great.
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And as usual, you get your facts wrong.
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The drive is a Kingston SV300S37A/480G 480GB SATA SSD.

 The specs say it came with a 500 GB HD or 256 GB SSD.

So knowing that what you said could have been wrong, you claimed it as an absolute anyway.
That's why you get called "Liarboy", Liarboy.

Strange though that we have 2 2015-2016 era Windows machines here running W10 and neither has the screen/mouse symptoms you mention. Both have hard drives and updates/reboots are slow. But once up and running both are quite good. I run a graphics intensive flight sim on the 2015 HP and it is very responsive to controller inputs, totally usable. It's connected to a 27" HP display. Fonts render just fine on that large screen.

You're just used to something worse than I'm used to, Liarboy.