• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    [Windows] can make the experience crippling for non-technically minded users

    Wild seeing this in an article talking about Linux.

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      1 year ago

      It’s very often true, though. Windows has pretty graphics, but doing anything technical that doesn’t work out of the box is fucking obscure.

      • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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        1 year ago

        What do you mean, the registry is a perfect piece of software, crystal clear on how or why it works the way it does !

        • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          Yes, I agree!

          Who would want to enable cycling through application windows on the taskbar via graphical settings in KDE Plasma, when you can just press Win+R, enter regedit.exe, get administrator privilages, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and add a new 32-bit DWORD named LastActiveClick with the value of 1 in Windows.

      • fossphi@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Not even too technical stuff. Settings which a slightly advanced user might need or want to change are freaking spread out across 3 different applications. Good luck finding it through the their amazing search.