Not hiding file extensions. The worst setting Windows ever had, ostensibly intended for the benefit of noobs but I never understood why.
E.g you can't remove these annoying "remind later" things (without disabling integrity protection and patching OS files), and they are everywhere. Enshittification of windows is going strong, there are more and more things you can't configure anymore
I remember fondly the days when I thought Windows was getting better all the time.
The thing that's funny about that is I suspect it's a different epoch for different people.
ok. I want windows borders bigger than 1. Where can i configure this ?
Why can't this just be something you can tab over to instead of that stupid blank startup screen with occasional disingenuous, ambiguous feel-good messages on it? Why do Windows crash dump and recovery screens have to be still largely stuck in the cryptic and unhelpfully threadbare state they were in 20 years ago when there is so much more memory available to store say, a scrollable stack trace or even a large text table of meaningful errors or exception states so you don't need to go Googling around for these or checking your notes at 4:08 am on a Monday?
The bane of anyone who's ever had to get a production system back up and running from a non-bootable state and you're sitting there staring at spinning circles and featureless colorblock screens sometimes for minutes on end, wondering just what the hell is going on.
Damn, if even Raymond Chen doesn’t understand AD…
He had set-up the AD himself and had no idea where it came from
< Contract your system administrator.
> I am the system administrator!
So, by not having an "expert" mode in Windows, Microsoft made Windows neither newbie-friendly nor expert-friendly.
TBH I wouldn't overly mind a version of Windows that really was just a terminal on top of the kernel, with the option to use the Windows shell or whatever other shell I want or build one if that's what I desired. Much like that most proselytized of Linux distros. It would still be Windows, but I would feel in control of it to some degree.
But it would have to be something other than PowerShell, and I think that's a nonstarter for Microsoft.
WinPE is literally that. A highly stripped-down version of Windows that boots to cmd.exe as a shell.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
Let's see, UAC is nice for your grandmother who might click on something that it shouldn't, yet, we, advanced users are constantly annoyed by those cof,cof "security" features who get in the way when doing something.
Yet, your grandmother will eventually get ransomware or malware despite the UAC and other features, so, what's the point!??!
At the moment I just remember UAC, but there are plenty of features that we want to turn off with a simple button and we can't, unless we play around with the registry or 3rd party apps.
And this is why power users love Linux, we can do whatever we want, if we break it, it's fine and we can learn with it. At this rate, your computer will no longer be "your" computer, Microsoft will own it and you will like it.
Even for us power users, we might hit some drive-by exploit, a friend might send us something that got wormed or whatever. And now, unless that malware comes with a UAC bypass/privilege escalation exploit which is worth millions of dollars, we get an unexpected UAC prompt and have a chance to stop a minute and actually notice that something is Not Right.
It's worth noting that UAC is not a security boundary[1]. Sure, a safeguard mechanism, but not a security feature against stealth rootkits trying to escalate from non-privileged environment.
[1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/189491/microsof...
Do you disable sudo on your Linux box or run everything as root?
Where’s that login for windows for those who want that?
