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0 pointsnarag6mo ago0 comments

Well, yet another compulsive selector here, but:

Similarly I get annoyed, if every pixel is some clickable action trigger.

This is the worst. It permeates all kind of GUIs. Windows has this mini preview windows that pop up when you're hovering over the apps in the taskbar. Also if you accidentally hover over them, all the windows are minimized except the one previewed.

Microsoft has systematically terminated every single way of disabling this idiocy.

Using one Windows inside another (vbox) at work is causing me PTSD. I'm no proud of it, but I think I'd use physical violence if I could confront the culprit.

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wizzwizz46mo ago

> Using one Windows inside another (vbox) at work is causing me PTSD.

At one time in my life, I might have called you out for bad-taste hyperbole… but no, this kind of thing is genuinely traumatising. And that's ridiculous: what has the world come to, that desktop operating systems are giving people PTSD‽

visarga6mo ago

> Similarly I get annoyed, if every pixel is some clickable action trigger.

Twitter did that, every pixel was reacting to clicks. Selecting text was hard

lomase6mo ago

Also if you accidentally hover over them, all the windows are minimized except the one previewed.

This does not happen on my windows machines, must be something configurable, I would hate it.

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