You’ve failed to mention a single thing that can be qualified as a daily use-case

They’re daily use cases to me and everyone I work with, but OK, fuck the people solving your IT problems, I suppose, what could possibly go wrong.

.I did all of those for my grandmother a few months back.

Oh, wow, I bow to the expert; I only have to do them several times a week on a variety of machines, and have been doing so for a couple decades. Clearly all my problems would be fixed if I was as experienced as you, please accept my humble apologies, oh master.

If you’re having problems with those things, that’s a you problem.

Oh, most definitely.

I have a problem with settings that used to be grouped on a single easy to get window being randomly spread over several unrelated ones, and that’s the ones which aren’t only configurable now through the registry, or group policies, or powershell incantations.

I have a problem with tasks that used to take 30 seconds and less than five clicks now taking minutes and the risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.

I have a problem with the almost constant loss of functionality and usability since windows 2000; sure there’s some nice new features from time to time (winget is nice, if late, WSL1 was good — WSL2 is a horrible bloated hack that completely ignores that the NT architecture is designed to integrate multiple kernel subsystems at its core —, the windows 10 start menu was relatively practical once you got it setup right and until it randomly decided to fubar itself, shadow copies were very nice and are sorely missed…), but they don’t tend to last, and are usually gone by the next version of the OS or even the next major update.

But sure, sure, it’s a me problem; never mind everyone else complaining about the same issues. We clearly just want to be cool.

Try to configure a printer.
Try to configure a network adapter.
Try to configure graphics settings.
Try to organise the start menu to make it even remotely useable.
Try to uninstall a store app for all users without having to use undocumented powershell incantations.
And I’m already wanting to punch something, so I’ll stop now.

Lots of settings actually seem more convenient now, especially the ones for audio and Bluetooth.

Sure, if all you want is to turn them on or off and you don’t want to actually configure anything.

🤦‍♂️

it’s pretty much the same as Windows 10, just slightly swisher animations.

And ten times more unusable without several third party programs to fix the absolutely fubared UI.

It takes about ten clicks more, on average, to do anything in 11 than in 10.

Utterly unusable garbage, is what it is, even if you ignore all the spyware and bloatware and lost functionality.

(Of course the same could be said of 10 in regards to XP, and XP in regards to 2000, so really it’s utterly unusable garbage cubed.)

EDIT: The Windows is Windows 10.

Enjoy it while it lasts. It’ll soon be much, much worse.

Do you want bird flu? Because this is how you get bird flu.

(Though, to be fair, if you’re in the US you’ll almost certainly end up getting it anyway, so you might as well enjoy some eggs and cleaning lots of chicken guano while you’re at it.)

Does the cone of shame do anything in this case?

Looks like the nozzle would still be able to reach everything it’d reach normally…

He does look like a particularly misshapen bug wearing a second hand Edgar suit.

Trump’s ditching them because he’s got Putin’s arm so deep up his arse he can taste his deodorant.

who’s the moralists?

“For a moment, there was hope.”

Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

The way he looks I wouldn’t entirely discard the possibility of Musk having two left feet, but it seems somewhat unlikely.

Still way too green or even yellow for any healthy human person, though. Definitely some serious liver or kidney issues.

Is that the one with the wine coloured sea…?

Worth remembering that Putin practically grew up in the KGB.

Flag it as phishing, which is what it is.

This is not only a Linux problem, it’s the same bullshit in Windows with %appdata% blowing up like a tumour.

President Camacho was supposed to be a caricature of how bad it could get

Turns out it could get much, much, worse.

They’re both more than dumb enough to believe that the other one is their patsy without realising they’re really both Putin’s puppets.

It would be kind of tragicomic if they weren’t fucking up the world in the process.

At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days…

It’s all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.

It’s all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone’s time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.