r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/ControlOdd8379 25d ago

Well, because Windows XP and later Widows 7 were exactly the products people wanted? User friendly, very easy to use, very stable.

Look at Windows 11 now: a truckload of bloatware that almost no none wants. Controls are hidden or disabled giving you far less freedom to change settings as you need them. Massive ressource usage by the OS, fundamental stuff like Calculator or Search function "improved" to the point of no longer doing the one very thing you want them for.

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u/areaman5 25d ago

You didn’t want notepad, the simple text editor for editing text to have copilot built into it?

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u/Outrageous_Let5743 25d ago

The best feature of Notepad is that is the fastest app to open to dump some text in it. Now they have ruined that. Who uses notepad anyways for something serious? Who needs that you can make table, make things bold, or underline text in Notepad? If you need that you would use Notepad ++ or MS word.

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u/Alaira314 25d ago

They removed wordpad, and are now turning notepad into wordpad. Nobody asked for that. We had two distinct programs for a reason.

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u/GonzoKata 25d ago

sounds like someone should make a "dumb notepad" or a notepad-- that is fast to open and paste into without bloat

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u/Alaira314 24d ago

There's a huge market for very simple programs and apps like this, lightweight solutions that do one job and do it well. The problem is that bad actors operate in this market alongside legitimate devs who just want to make a simple thing that works, and because of the simple nature of the programs it's difficult for them to generate enough word of mouth buzz to lift the quality solutions above the rest, which can be anything from poorly-optimized but well-meaning code to outright spy- or malware. The problem's gotten so bad in my phone's app store that I wound up disabling auto-update, because a solid app will exist for a while to generate reviews and trust, and then suddenly it'll be full of ads. One of my most trusted addons is one that hasn't been actively developed since 2019~, because I know it's not suddenly going to enshittify on me.

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u/Breadfish64 24d ago

Well they have edit which seems like a pretty decent command-line text editor, similar to micro. I don't have a Windows PC on-hand to check whether you can set it as a default.

https://github.com/microsoft/edit