Tabs in Notepad is a nice touch. It allows multiple notes in one window and caches those notes if you close without saving, yet still stupid simple. Except that fucking copilot icon staring at me in the corner...
Layers in MS Paint just feels like unnecessary feature creep.
Linux is compatible with a lot more than it used to be, and for those stubborn programs, there are usually FOSS alternatives, or emulation/compatibility layers. Hell, my machine runs games faster through Proton on Linux in 1440p than it did natively on Windows in 1080p.
And you'd be correct. I don't need or want any of that crap on my personal machine.
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It's very possible I confused the two.
Ok, I wasn't sure. There is some site out there that wackjobs love to reference to reinforce their beliefs, and it sounds similar, but I cannot remember what it was called.
And no, I'm not thinking of praeger...
Yes, I am painfully aware. Unfortunately, this doesn't actually help.
XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.
On NT you mean
Whoops! Yes, NT.
But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.
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and no, W2K was a consumer system.
W2K was most definitely not built with consumers in mind; the base edition was "Professional" and was meant to be a workstation OS. It was a bit of an oddball in that a not-insignificant amount of power users preferred it at home over 98/Me - but it was a business-oriented system first and foremost. XP added a lot of features over 2000, including more consumer-oriented tools and applications. That's why I specified XP as "the first real consumer version".
Personal anecdote: When I was in jr high, the "family PC" was a Toshiba laptop loaded with W2K, and compared to the W98 system we had before, 2000 was certainly not meant for "regular" home users. That's what Me was supposed to be, but we all know how that went... IMO, I'm almost certain that the downfall of Me, paired with W2K being as good as it was at the time, was part of the driving force for MS to base future consumer versions on the NT kernel.
Bingo.
And even then it's difficult to find shit, like for instance, finding the working directory for crontab when run as root. This answer on Stack Exchange is the embodiment of my second example in the other comment. The answers go into great detail, yet still don't answer the question in any reasonable capacity for a "standard user" like myself.
Man pages tend to assume a lot and overload the user with information.
Forums are full of "duh, haven't you read the man pages, idiot?" kinds of people.
Web searches are full of AI/garbage (same thing) articles that focus on distros/programs that are either horrendously inaccurate, out of date, or simply don't exist anymore.
Therefore, I utilize the tldr man pages, and use extremely specific terms for web searches.
That's called MS Paint. It already exists.
No! Why would I want more shit calling back to the mothership about my files on my personal computer?
When did I ever say that?