How nice of Windows to spam me with notifications when I temporarily fill my scratch disk, despite turning them off…

  • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    1 year ago

    So sick of all the feedback, rate us, try this feature, what’s new, turn on feature x, etc. that seems to be a part of everything nowadays, even Linux apps. Linux wasn’t this bad only a few years ago and mobile OSs cranked this up to 10.

    • If I want to rate an app, I’ll look under feedback in the help menu.
    • If I want to see what’s new, show me the changelog…once, right after I update.
    • If I want to turn a feature on/off put descriptive toggles in the settings menu.

    Everything that can be seen from the default view should 100% revolve around fulfilling the function of the app for the user. Human attention is a finite thing and we shouldn’t be wasting it on shit like this.

    • scarrtt@lemm.eeEnglish
      171·
      1 year ago

      If an app asks me to rate it, or checks what my rating is going to be before sending me to either a feedback form or Google Play, depending on my response, then it instantly gets a 1 star review

      • Damage@slrpnk.netEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        The best is when you open a newly installed app and it asks you straight away to rate it.

      • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I hate the ones where I already rated it… and it keeps asking me even more. It’s infuriating.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      100%

      My banking apps CONSTANTLY harasses me with garbage, and the options are either to concede or to “skip for now”.

      No, I want to skip for always!

      • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        We know you have no money in your checking or savings account… and you’ve said no at least 50 times in the last month… BUT would you like to use this investment brokerage we’ve partnered with?

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Same for websites with the popup “how do you like our website?”.

      It was cool until i got the popup!

    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      If I want to rate an app, I’ll look under feedback in the help menu.

      When apps do this I rate them 1 and leave a note explaining why

    • Bondrewd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I just thought of something that was missing from terminal software… welp, time to get to work.

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Weird that my wife got no such notice when her HDD was completely full. Yesterday she came to me asking why she couldn’t install something. I checked her HDD and it was 100% full. No notifications for her at all.

    • pixelscience@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      231·
      1 year ago

      Imagine being an adult professional that uses windows programs for their job… I have several Linux machines that are workhorses in my pipeline, but using windows is just not something a lot of people can avoid.

      • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        I’m one of those that just can’t avoid using windows at work. At least at work they come with a very useful adition, windows sysadmins. They already learned that giving Linux apecialists admin rights. (It gets harder and harder to deny any Windows knowledge)

        Haven’t used windows at home since 3.11.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Get my simulator setup working under WINE and i’ll do a full switch, until then it’s Windows on my gaming PC and linux on everything else lol

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Portable and pretty budget, a G29 + arduino with a large LCD to show live dashboard data, head tracking with OpenTrack + PS3 Eye webcam (extremely versatile camera, pretty handy for machine vision with its 120FPS support. Only downside is 640x480 max res, and the 4x array mics only work on Linux)

          Only outlier is stick shift running via the Arduino for a few reasons, mainly to reduce wires and setup/packing time (need my desk for other things too, sadly can’t afford a permanent rig), and also to avoid mapping the gears in new games. I just switch between usb emulation of a known device, or sending keypresses 1-6, R

      • nulatium@programming.devEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        There’s been a solution of, provided two usable graphics processors, running Linux and virtualizing Windows underneath it with the gaming GPU for only a 5-8% loss.

        • nexusband@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Way to complex. And also way too much work to have it break the next update. As much as I love Linux (hell, I’ve been using Linux on and off since 2004, when I was 14 and got my first hand me down Laptop…) and as much as I admire the progress…it still isn’t there, especially with peripherals. Getting a DD to work on Linux is a nightmare.