Technology

Yea it's always annoyed me that despite having decades of improved hardware. Software has been running as shitty as ever since the 2010s. Like I still have to wait for things to open and close or tasks to complete even in simple shit like launching an application or browsing files. WTF.

At this point it's pretty much a challenge to write software bad enough that a computer will struggle to run it.

(Not a particularly great challenge obviously - I'm quite good a it myself)

Yeah performance, security, etc., is always a low priority in software departments. All work generally have to get funded by some current or expected income specifically linked to that work. Things are never linked to cost of NOT doing the work. It's always assumed that there's no cost to not doing something. This is a huge flaw in moderne business practices in general as the only thing that matters is current revenue for purposes of stock price or the companies value to investors. In software this means that any work is generally tied to some feature requested by upper management and usually connected to some sale or otherwise linked to expected income. And that means every new feature gets a limited budget and generally in the end, cost cutting trims that down before delivery, but instead of cutting business features, they have to cut things like performance and security testing and development. Those end up as "technical debt", but there is almost never any income that gets tied to those unless there's a lawsuit or other legal requirement that forces the company to fund those things. The whole idea of a department having to "sell" every piece of work to a "internal customer" so they can get money from the organization is a ridiculous idea. It's all the same company's money, there's no actual customer and the whole bureaucracy to support all of that is a huge waste of time and money that could be put into the longterm health of the company. But longterm health isn't important anymore in so many industries because consolidation and legal maneuvering has removed most competition in many industries.

Just sounds like Windows is slowly turning into a web app altogether

Because it is.

Or when it crashes altogether. Now it makes sense

I think the whole thing comes from this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJNEFHj8b8&t=276 (at ~4:30)

I've also been on the hunt for a proper source, this was the closest official statement I found close to the subject matter, but it does not explicitly say

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/rnw-settings-win11/

The new right click is too slow ? I use Windows 10 and the right click menu takes several seconds to open, can it really be worse ?

If I were to venture a guess, it's so that they can use the same start menu in multiple iterations of windows without tinkering (so, for example, they could dump a windows environment onto an xbox as an app). Kind of an ass backwards way of doing so in my opinion, but that's on-brand for modern microsoft

Cross platform you say? So...like...ARM? 🙂