• Thatuserguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Oh cool, good to see the power button is still on the other side of the fucking menu. You know, the thing that I’m clicking on 90% of the time I’m opening the Start Menu? Why have that easily reachable like in past versions of Windows? Silly me I guess.

      • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Hey that was when they thought it was also a smart idea to force that shit tablet view on users…

        • Damage@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I didn’t mind it actually. Like I don’t mind the GNOME overview or whatever the thing that comes up when you press Meta is called

            • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Gnome is still a bit quirky to me and I’ve been running it on my latest install. I still don’t get their idea of by default, without extensions, how I’m supposed to use software that requires a tray icon to use.

      • szczuroarturo@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeach the ui sucked, kinda sucked. I actually kinda liked it on 8.1 . But the one thing windows 8 did right was efficiency. I still remember my update from windows 8 to 10 when witcher 3 on my laptop went from barerly playbale to unplaybale. Sad story.

      • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        I just Alt + F4 from the desktop or just press the power button. I always change it to regular old shutdown.

        • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          agree on the power button change, unless you have little kids, in which case the button should just be disabled.

          • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I saw other people mentioning managing multiple computers in an offise space. I wouldn’t trust that everybody wound configure the power button action.

              • Mr. Satan@monyet.ccEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                Sometimes people manage other computers so it’s not practical to configure all of them and you can’t trust what people have configured for the power button

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Just wait. At the rate they’re going it won’t be long before you’re forced to sit through a 30 second full screen ad in order to even open the start menu.

          • experbia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

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    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      genuine question, why do you click that button? Why not use the physical button on the device?

      • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Software shutdown button presser chiming in.

        There’s two reasons I tend to use the software button. I know for a fact that clicking “Shut Down” will actually shut down the computer. If I press the hardware button, the computer usually is configured by default to sleep. Yes, I could change this default behaviour on all the devices I use, but then there’s the second reason:

        From a psychological perspective, I tend to associate the hardware button as a “only use if system is locked up” button.

        • naticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

          Yep, if you’re in charge of managing hundreds of computers, you don’t want to guess at what it’ll do. We have our defaults but also have people who make exceptions depending on their own work needs. Tbh, I rarely use that button anyhow though, I right click on the start menu to get that menu instead and use shutdown, restart, or log out.

          • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Further reason, the physical button isn’t always in a location that’s convenient to push. Sure it’s usually accessible, but sometimes it’s under a desk or behind a monitor or some other awkward location. Mouse and keyboard by their nature are always located in a conveniently accessible location.