• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I seriously can’t remember the last time a windows update added an actually useful feature for me. Its like they are actively avoiding making it any better at all.

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      8 hours ago
      • Explorer tabs.
      • Significant improvements to power management.
      • Terminal/ssh
      • Quick restore and autopilot
      • Notepad tabs
      • Windows hello, passkey support

      Not OS, and it’s older now, but powershell is pretty great and vscode is nice.

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        They might add features, but none of them are a joy to work with or use. They are usually slow and buggy and annoying.

        Powershell is disgusting (my opinion).

        Explorer tabs are SO ANNOYING. Coming from using dolphin at home, then windows explorer at work MAKES ME CRY. I might actually use dolphin on windows, but the builds dont seem to be properly supported (i dont think?) or at least in alpha/beta or something and I don’t wanna have a buggy file explorer thats not made specifically for an os. But come on dolphin can do it right and fast, why can’t a billion dollar company?!?!?!!?!

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          8 hours ago

          Powershell has some nasty little quirks, and the command naming is user-hostile, but god damn is it great to pass objects around instead of parsing and reparsing text.

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        Explorer tabs

        Pretty sure that happened over a decade ago.

        Terminal/ssh

        Same

        Quick restore

        Same

        autopilot

        What even is that? A precursor to Copilot? If so, DEFINITELY doesn’t qualify.

        Notepad tabs

        If you’re not using Notepad++, you’re wrong and should be ashamed of yourself

        Windows hello

        Absolutely abominable and mandatory. A winning combination 😮‍💨

        passkey support.

        Which all of the competitors except maybe Apple’s walled gardens already had?

        Face it: windows has seen at most a handful of positive changes since XP and at least a dozen as many negative ones just since 7.

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          12 hours ago

          Explorer tabs are 2022h2 so not that recent.

          Terminal was 2020 so yeah that’s old.

          Quick machine restore was only July.

          Autopilot is enterprise provisioning any device from an out of box state. Only mobile devices have this.

          Windows hello isn’t mandatory. it’s passwordless security, just like mobile devices.

          I don’t believe Linux supports passkey in the os.

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            I don’t believe Linux supports passkey in the os.

            Not sure if this is the same thing, but KDE (on a linux system) presents me with options to login with smartkey/fingerprint, so it might, I’m guessing? I dunno if thay’s what passkeys are referring to, but if yes, then I think it does.

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                  My understanding is that window’s passkey support differs from something like what is offered by linux distros in that, instead of storing your passwords in a strongly encrypted, audited, and trustworthy store like 1pw or similar, windows instead stores them in the OS.

                  Which personally I consider a con, I don’t trust windows to store pictures without fucking it up, why on earth would I give them passkeys?