aka @JWBananas
aka @JWBananas

I will go slightly out of my way to step on that crunchy looking leaf.

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • JWBananas@kbin.socialtoAndroid@lemdro.id•Take a first look at Google’s new At a Glance widget for non-Pixel phones
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    11 months ago

    (you can disable it but you don’t get the space back)

    This can certainly be annoying. But if you think about it from a UX perspective, what would happen if you could?

    What happens if you disable it, use the space, and then enable it again?

    Where does everything go that you placed there?

    Does it just shift down? What if it can’t because of other content on the page? Do you just shift it to a new page? What if there is content in the way across multiple pages? Does that all get shifted to a jumbled mess on a new page?

    What if you just didn’t let the user enable it again unless the space was cleared? Would that be too confusing for less capable users?

    Sometimes UX designers do seemingly dumb things for very smart reasons.

  • JWBananas@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?
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    1 year ago

    Nope. Been using the same installation of Windows 10 for years, and everything just works.

    Even swapped the SSD from one laptop into another one. Added a UEFI boot entry, and it came right up.

    I think the only problem I ever had was audio or Wi-Fi occasionally failing to work after resume. But that resolved itself after one of the major updates.

    The only annoyance I’ve run into is the “Let’s finish setting up your device” screen after feature updates. But you can disable that fairly easily.

    I mainly use it as a glorified Chromebook though. Browser, Windows Terminal + WSL, maybe the occasional Inkscape or Lightroom. All the “interesting” stuff happens in Linux VMs atop ESXi running on an old desktop.

    But for everyday use, it’s nice to have something that “just works” when I pick it up.

    I might check out Linux again in a few years though. From what I’ve read, PipeWire seems to be killing it in terms of progress on the audio side. So once the Wayland ecosystem matures, it should be fairly easy to get back that “just works” status with Linux.

    In terms of performance, the main issue Windows really has is disk I/O. But a modern SSD fixes that easily. I am using a second-hand, nine-year-old Dell Latitude laptop, and it does everything I need it to do. Boots up in seconds. Has to stay plugged in though.