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It's especially bad when it's stuck like that for hours, and you have to make a gamble with a force restart.
Spinners must die. I don’t care if I don’t understand what exactly you’re doing, Windows, (I’d be surprised if you knew), but show me something, anything about the steps you’re currently doing, so I can guess if you’re doing something at all.
They could actually show you a command prompt / terminal readout, which shows warnings and errors when things just outright fail and the process is borked... but that would scare people, apparently.
LOL, yup! I was just going to reply that people find that scary, and then got to your last sentence. Idk why it scares people. I love seeing the output.
Even if it scares people, why not provide a goddamn toggle to enable it for the non-dipshits?
Because MSFT long, long ago abandoned the concept of giving users choice, or just in general not treating them like idiot babies.
Brings me back to when I was contracting with them, same time Win 8 came out.
MSFT does what they call 'dogfooding', ie, every worker is alpha/beta testing basically all MSFT software all the time.
My team was managing SQL servers and running queries. SQL Manager, and a whole bunch of other shit completely broke when 8 came out.
It initially did not even have the ability to go back to a Win7 style interface.
They truly believed that limiting all office workers to a UI where they could have, at max, one pane on 1/3 of the screen and another pane on 2/3rds would be completely fine.
We effectively could do no work for about 1/3 of our contract.
Working at or for MSFT is a curse I would only wish upon my worst enemies.
I actually had to quit another, earlier contract as my manager expected me to work overtime without pay. Before that, my one cool boss just showed me that I was being paid about 1/3 of what MSFT was paying the contracting firm for me.
And that is to say nothing of the massive racism that all the American employees just looked the other way on: Pretty common for Indian employees of a higher caste to treat Indian contractors of a lower caste like total dogshit, and the line from HR was 'its their culture!'.
Windows was designed with the average computer user in mind.
The ones that don't understand the difference between internet and wifi.
But a button to show this CLI would be nice.