Gambling? Gambling is more widely available and celebrated than it ever has been. Its regulations have been eroding faster than water through sand.

It's an unpopular opinion, but I genuinely believe that 11 is the best version of Windows yet. I've been using computers for 30 years and you're right, everyone has _always_ complained about Windows. The only reason people have a fondness for XP is because it was pretty much the world's first Windows. It's the OS that was used to connect the world, and IE being (for the time) the competent browser played a huge role in that.

I feel the same way. I recently installed Windows XP in a VM for nostalgia and it was shocking how much I realized windows has improved since then.

I'm not obsessed with windows 11, but I am the happiest using it than I've been with any other version (aside from the TPM 2.0 requirement, that's my #1 complaint)

> it was shocking how much I realized windows has improved since then

YMMV

> not obsessed with windows 11, but I am the happiest using it

Good luck then. And, I really hope, you will remain happy in the future.

What do you think it does better than 10?

There are plenty of things that Windows 11 does well, but for me they’re all things that 10 also did well.

Most of the things that annoy me in 11 however were not also in 10.

I know many items in this list can apply to both, but I've been maining 11 since release and going back to pre-11 builds of 10 genuinely feels like a downgrade: - Windows Terminal is great - Settings now covers almost everything, I haven't had to actually go into Control Panel in years - Explorer has tabs! - The new context menu loads in items asynchronously. Some people hate it, but I remember how apps would abuse the context menu and bring my PC to a crawl. - The CPU scheduler is genuinely insanely better with big/little CPUs - Scaling with windows and monitor management is better - Auto HDR - Updated notepad is actually kinda good - Updated paint is actually kinda good - Built in WinGet is chefs kiss - I actually love Fluent design

Again, some of these are on 10, but on 11 it feels like more of a tighter package.

What are M$ paying you ? Or what kind of mushrooms eat you ?

This isn't true in the slightest.

I've been having massive performance issues, specifically with the database locking. Disabling the Playback Reporting plugin resolved the issue.

My parents and brother use Infuse. I would use it even over the official Plex app.

The problem is always going to be that everyone has their own way of structuring arguments and providing help text. You could probably do it with PowerShell.

I think it's a pretty good point. I've been using LLMs for .NET and the output is generally pretty good.

Not to mention, everything-is-an-object is a much better experience than text only.

I wouldn’t mind a shell that uses structured text, such as JSON, but the inefficiency of the parsing and serialisation makes my eye twitch.

PowerShell does provide a ConvertTo-Json [0] for those who need it.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...

Contrary to how it sounds I actually like PowerShell as a scripting language in itself. A lot of its ideas are pretty clever.

I treat my dormant familiarity with it as a resume hedge. Ideally things in my life continue to go well, and I can keep climbing the ranks of doing more and more impressive things powered by the Unix systems I've been daily driving since I was 14. If, however, things in my life ever go truly sideways, I could probably dial it way back and eke out an existence at some low pay, low stress, fully remote Windows admin job at some dinosaur of a company somewhere. There I could use PS and its deep, deep integration with all things Windows to automate 90-99% of it away, so that I could spend my time e.g. tending to my young children instead. (Even if Copy-Item is 27% slower than drag and drop. My time is still more expensive than the machine's.)

I truly never hope that has to happen, of course.

Just use NanaZip

Blazor is pretty great. It is mature at this point and MS is using it internally more and more. Trying to go back to something like React makes me shudder. It's not perfect, but it's better than many alternatives.

I agree. For Blazor there is hope. It is standard based (web assembly, HTML, css) and it feels very intuitive particularly when compared to other spa frameworks like react. Also you can reuse all your html, css and design systems you have. Which is huge because like that it hooks up with the whole web development stack.

For as much crap as MS gets, the entire ASP.NET Core stack is an oasis.

Most of .NET is.