I use both Windows and Mac machines. I prefer Windows because certain programs I use constantly don’t run under Mac OS or Linux. I’m not a computer tech person, I’m just someone who does a lot of work on a computer and want things as simple, straightforward, and smooth as possible.
Windows in recent years (and Macs, too, to be fair) remind me of the machines in Hitchhiker’s Guide, pushing grotesque “user experiences” on Ford while insisting it’s what he wants. I don’t want my Start Menu to pop up in the middle of the screen where it covers most of what I’m doing. I want it off to the side out of the way. Even then I don’t want said Start Menu to spread out over a third of the screen, padded out with shortcuts to stuff I never use. I don’t want a taskbar link to weather, sports, and carefully-curated tabloid news. I don’t want a simple menu bar replaced by a window twice its size peopled with inscrutable icons that “conveniently” flash and change whenever my mouse passes over them. I don’t want Microsoft Edge badgering me or Cortana stalking me or a goddamned unremovable link to an X-Box I don’t own. I don’t want a stupid cartoon dog asking if I want to search–oh, sorry, that was a couple of versions ago, wasn’t it? Excuse me while I take my meds.
That’s better. Where was I? Oh,yes.The bottom line is, I just want to be left the hell alone to do my work the way I want to do it. I don’t want all these bloated User Experience Enrichments any more than I want to sell my soul to the Microsoft store. Rant rant puff puff.
