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What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Being intuitive - was true of Windows 95 - XP, but was completely broken in the last couple of releases. Whatever version Windows is on now, it's so much a guessing game what is and is not a button, or how to invoke a given tool within an application. They even took away the "menu > underlines" ffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's still a start menu and you can start everything by using the system search or even desktop shortcuts.

Regardless, you don't have to worry about settings or requirements the way you do in Linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm not talking about launching applications, I'm talking about how to divine that ctrl alt shift § invokes "find in page" or whatever without digging through the gorram tabs of the ribbon.

It's so very power-user unfriendly, it would have made SO much more sense if Windows 3 or 95 had started or with those idiotic ribbons for crayon-eating users and THEN evolved into sleek, compact toolbar with hover tooltips hunting at keyboard shortcuts. But no, it was the other way around and I'm like unfathoming Asian head grab meme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ctrl F?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So using find was obviously a simplistic example. I know ctrl F is near-universal for a regular find operation, but let's imagine some other specialised feature of, say, a CAD application. "Find vertex in selected model" perhaps?

Oddly enough, I just discarded MacOS for a similar reason: yes, ctrl f is for "find" but, unlike on any other platform where ctrl shift f is "find in all files in project", on MacOS that is cmd shift f. WTAF, there goes my muscle memory out the window. In fact, the "when is it ctrl and when is it cmd" threw me for such a loop that it impacted my performance. Now that I'm back on Linux, the tool disappears and I can just do my job. Ahh.