"Oh, you dragged something over the top of a network drive in Explorer, let me waste the next 3-5 minutes trying to connect to that drive for you". Or how about this: "Oh you plugged in a USB drive that was setup as a live CD? Let me crash for a second and mash your MBR to bits".
How is Windows still mostly garbage at this point?
Searching for such a simple thing in the control panel was infuriating to say the least. I finally found it, random clicking in every potential places and it was in the most unintuitive place you could think of.
You would expect "keyboard layout" search to bring helpful results but it does not.
Still a thousand times better of an experience than Windows.
Between Wine frontends and Steam, I haven't really booted Windows for almost a year now, and I play a healthy balance of modern and ancient games of every production quality.
The only thing I miss is ShareX, which is a screenshot tool that seems to have been designed with me exactly as its sole target audience, because it is incredible, intuitively discoverable and packed with features that Just Work. Yes, Linux also has some screenshot tools, but they are at most 1% of what ShareX is. (And it doesn't work under Wine :(... )
Now I'm even considering FreeBSD as I friggin' love that OS. It's rock solid, predictable, and fast. I just need to make sure a few things can be made to work, even if it's via the browser, like Zoom.
switched to Arch (EndeavourOS KDE/Plasma) and life is sane again; enjoyable, even!
i do miss Affinity products, tho, which cannot even run in Wine/Proton :(
Or if you had enough space, still waste minutes copying the deleting the file...
Those days ended in 2007. I don't know if that issue persisted after XP because I've never experienced it.
Tracking: it’s mandatory!
