With Windows (pre-10+) at least I can generally avoid the frustration of fruitless internet searches by just mucking around in the control panel for a bit. Or even, yes, Regedit. I like to find a menu that offers me relevant options and then click a button to do a thing. Maybe it takes more time than just typing a command shortcut to do the thing, but clicking menu buttons is something I can just kind of figure out myself by exploring rather than reading the manual or consulting the eldritch lore of the internet every time I want to learn how to do a new thing.
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for me its basically
1 problem comes up
2a search problem and find one liner terminal paste solution
or
2b search problem for like 17 pages and find a 3 separate menu 47 click and 2 regedit solution
With Windows (pre-10+) at least I can generally avoid the frustration of fruitless internet searches by just mucking around in the control panel for a bit. Or even, yes, Regedit. I like to find a menu that offers me relevant options and then click a button to do a thing. Maybe it takes more time than just typing a command shortcut to do the thing, but clicking menu buttons is something I can just kind of figure out myself by exploring rather than reading the manual or consulting the eldritch lore of the internet every time I want to learn how to do a new thing. .
its pre 8 for me. everything after that is an absolute mess. apple is legitimately more intuitive at that point and I find apple not very intuitive.
People actually installed or used 8? 😋
Lol agreed though, the entire reason I am attempting to swap to Linux is because 7 was the last good Windows.