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  1. Oh please it's one of those super annoying articles, some non-professional/hobbyist "designer" creates some mock-up designs that throw out functionality and usability for the app looking good and all the clueless people who know nothing about UI design salivate over it. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ I loathe such concepts. It has all the words also that I hate - Fluent, clean, minimalist, sleekness. NO THANKS. This is anti-productivity as the controls are dumbed down. Such concepts throw out the 25+ years of evolution Explorer had. They are ok for amateur users on Windows 10X, not for Windows 10 Desktop. Such idiotic ideas are dangerous should actual Program Managers at Microsoft adopt these ridiculous concept designs and throw out the app that was designed in a certain way and evolved for 25+ years.
    13 points
  2. NO. There is such thing as "too much simplicity". Nautilus also does this crap.
    12 points
  3. Hello! I'm the author of this concept!! Thank you very much for making an article about it!! BTW: here's the link to my Twitter post: https://twitter.com/AlurDesign/status/1382350448611487744
    9 points
  4. Looks hideous, look at all that wasted space on the navigation pane.
    9 points
  5. I think it's useful to a majority, because many people have similarly named files in different folders, and seeing at a glance which folder the file is in is relevant. I appreciate the need to reduce clutter but I feel this particular element adds value probably for more people than not.
    9 points
  6. Oh boy do I hate this. It looks like the Mac explorer and is missing a ton of the needed detail. It has that same idea behind it of "You don't need to know where your files are! Here's a pretend folder that doesn't really exist for you to save things to! What's the layout of your drive? Dunno! Stuff it somewhere you'll never look at and just use search!" It's terrible. I'm a high-end I.T. professional and this would hurt badly to use.
    6 points
  7. In case anyone wants to know, there's a Windows 10 app that is a lot like this concept: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...activetab=pivot:overviewtab
    6 points
  8. Microsoft Edge 90 is out with Kids Mode and more

    Must be region limited, I don't have it
    5 points
  9. Minalism = ugly. If people wanted minimalism we'd all be running dos.
    5 points
  10. Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating

    Microsoft's UI team would come up with something more like Windows 3.1 though
    5 points
  11. Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating

    Modern for Microsoft usually means 95% of the functionality missing, slow, bloated, ton of UI glitches and memory leaks. If File Explorer ever looked like that I would stop using Windows altogether and move to macOS.
    4 points
  12. If it switched to this design I'd be ok with it. I don't see any changes that I'd be annoyed at, and the inclusion of tabs is long overdue.
    4 points
  13. Could you point out what specifically is wrong with this or missing from it? It sounds almost like you have a blanket objection to this genre of mockups and may not have considered this one on its own. What's wrong is all the important features in File Explorer will probably be ditched in favor of 'fluent' and 'accessible'.
    4 points
  14. O2 launches initiative to cut e-waste in Glasgow, Scotland

    Perhaps this waste problem is due to the manufacturers making so many different phones .
    3 points
  15. Clearly this is form over function. Where is the "Share to Fax" button!?
    3 points
  16. That’s very similar to Apples Finder..
    3 points
  17. Could you point out what specifically is wrong with this or missing from it? It sounds almost like you have a blanket objection to this genre of mockups and may not have considered this one on its own.
    3 points
  18. Apple and partners create Restore Fund to fight climate change

    They can start by making their own products easier to repair and having more readily available parts for anyone. This will prevent E-waste. But I doubt that will ever happen, Apple would rather virtue signal about being "$Green$"
    2 points
  19. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... What do you gain by hiding the full path? Ya, I use the full path all the time. On the top address bar may say "documents" but you click on the address bar and it may be c:\users\(username)\documents or if you are using one drive c:\users\(username)\onedrive\documents .. you really don't don't which until you click the address bar.
    2 points
  20. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... What do you gain by hiding the full path?
    2 points
  21. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... I'm not crapping the recycle bin I'm crapping not confirming you want to delete a file when pressing delete, so you don't delete something you didn't mean to. Sure it's in the recycle bin and can still be recovered, but if you didn't know it was in there and emptied the recycle bin then you would delete it. not to mention things like storage sense auto empty the recycle bin on occasion now.
    2 points
  22. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ...
    2 points
  23. What do you mean? Drives are there, all the existing special folders, path, breadcrumb etc Okay. As a user, go ahead and show me where the directory is located. Oh, I know you can see Pictures / Wallpapers in the demo pictures, but in actuality, that directory is a "Symbolic Folder" and doesn't really exist. The real path to the file is "C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Saved Pictures". The problem with the symbolic directories is that documents are listed there constantly that don't physically reside there. The number of user machines I've had to pull files from is astounding and due to poor File Managers on Mac and Pinned / Favorite directories on Windows, people don't know where their files are. Period. Ever since Windows 10, storage management has been a godawful mess when dealing with users as they do not know or care where they save things, they just hit "save". It goes to a download folder (that gets cleared whenever a file cleanup happens), a Documents folder (that doesn't exist), or their desktop. It's sad that the desktop is, organizationally, the best option, and this UI is further enforcing the "I dunno, search for it" school of thought that has made things so poor for both I.T. and users (even if they don't know it). This (and UI design like it) is designed for looks, not utility. It functions terribly the deeper you need to go and serves to enforce bad habits. However, I'm certain it is the road UX will travel down because people are very lazy and would rather have the OS think for them instead of having to do it themselves. "It just works" until someone has to actually do something technical, then "it just sucks."
    2 points
  24. Yeah Microsoft has never done form over function *COUGH* https://ms-dos5.tumblr.com/pos...ndows-me-media-player-skins *COUGH* 🤓
    2 points
  25. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    I've never been successful in removing an noise caused by dust, in my experience once dust causes a noise in a fan .. time to replace the fan.
    2 points
  26. Look at all the inconsistent margins and spacing. They didn't even get the window button spacing correct. It's essentially a poorly executed take on Microsoft's fluent design. There's nothing wrong with the colors, iconography and typography. But then again, those parts aren't original.
    2 points
  27. Looks nice, but I don't like the simplifying of filesystem navigation.
    2 points
  28. I always disabled this, never liked the idea of the OS tracking every single thing I do and adding more overhead and bloat. I already know what programs I use regularly and I know where my files are saved. I don't need some silly timeline to tell me what I was doing last Tuesday.
    2 points
  29. Best free anti-malware software?

    Common sense cannot stop Stuxnet or Exchange Server attacks. It might stop NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 though.
    2 points
  30. WinRAR 6.01

    It still works very well for most people.
    2 points
  31. A lot of these games will get second life in the future when NPCs living in virtual cities will be controlled by some self-learning smart algorithms or AI, which will give huge amounts of immersion. For example NPC behaviour and conversations in the city could be driven by modern human-like chat bots, which could sometimes set topics by close events or objects. Text-to-Speech is also got much better during last years. There are tons of new things, which are extremely affordable for game companies to implement and test in their games. Unfortunately, many games don't have even simplest features, like randomized size of monsters. Also, there is a lack of creative individuals or R&D resources to implement them, so I doubt that we will see such things very soon . Ideology, which is moving away some companies from merit-based system, is not helping either.
    1 point
  32. @+warwagon I'm sure you probably already know this as it has been possible to enable/disable for years now but I would just like to point out anyway: right-clicking the Recycle Bin and clicking Properties lets you check the "Confirmation" box to show you when you are deleting something. If the box is not checked then yes, it will just delete something without notice.
    1 point
  33. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    if it's a new PSU you could look into RMAing it then. there really shouldn't be any kind of whine like that I wouldn't think.
    1 point
  34. Sony Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III price revealed on Sony Russia website

    1 III, 5 III? I swear Sony has some of the weirdest naming schemes for their phones and they can't seem to settle on any particular scheme either
    1 point
  35. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... I'm not crapping the recycle bin I'm crapping not confirming you want to delete a file when pressing delete, so you don't delete something you didn't mean to. Sure it's in the recycle bin and can still be recovered, but if you didn't know it was in there and emptied the recycle bin then you would delete it.
    1 point
  36. Best free anti-malware software?

    I wasn't saying any platform was vulnerable to Adrozek but that it seemed to require some kind of USER INTERACTION. It doesn't matter what OS you are using if the user "clicks" on "OK". LOL
    1 point
  37. A bit prettier, but here is the thing: It brings zero modern UI/UX concepts to Explorer, which should be essential to any major rewrite/rework of Explorer. Microsoft created Explorer back in 1993 for Win95, it hasn't significantly changed since then, and nothing from Apple or anywhere else as produced anything better or much different. The WIn95 team did well with Explorer and the concepts, even though I think it should have leaned into a better object model, which would need NT to make usable/performant. Look at new UX and UI concepts. Things that work similar if needed, but break everything you think is 'necessary' with a new smart model. Just like the use of Tabs - sure they can be 'ok' - but there are FAR better productivity concepts that NOBODY uses. We need new thought and new UI and UX productivity features in Windows that extends from Explorer, throughout the interface of all software that can hook into older software and offer the new concepts to that software and create a springboard for new ways of working. If anyone is curious, the concepts are talked about across the web, even with some of MS's own UX experts proposing things that are full OS interface shifts. We have lived through several productivity models, and gone back through some of them several times, like ######ing TABS - and it is time for a major OS to offer these concepts to users and new software and existing software. Windows can easily do this better than any other OS technology in technical terms, although Apple could FORCE their users and developers to comply or die, which would get things rolling, even if it was half assed and technically limited. The difference between cool mock ups like this and deeper UX/UI design and discussion, is this addresses nothing behind the picture or functionality behind the picture. It is pretty, functionally empty, with us having to assume it works like Explorer does today - and based on that, why bother other than to make it a bit prettier - especially as it will break a lot of Explorer legacy features that most users and developers don't even realize are there. The other difference, is the test groups and designers and people that make a living out of theorizing about UX and UI - don't post screenshot of their concepts to Reddit. I'm always amazed that people see these and think, this is good, this is complete, this is better, this S:DLFKJSLDFJSL. It is just a pretty sketch based on the current Explorer - this helps nothing.
    1 point
  38. Which is neat...but considerably slower than File Explorer.
    1 point
  39. Internet Download Manager (IDM) 6.38 Build 21 [Update]

    among other things, I love the feature to download practically any video on any website. Example... Let's say you are watching some porn, and you like the video, click the download button above the video to save it for later. Not saying I've ever done that, but you could if you wanted to :-D
    1 point
  40. Hire this guy!!!!
    1 point
  41. Google Chrome 90.0.4430.72 (offline installer)

    • "A number of fixes and improvements." • A new value for the CSS overflow property • The Feature Policy API has been renamed to Permissions Policy • A new way to implement and use Shadow DOM directly in HTML • Chrome's address bar will use https:// by default • AV1 encoder in desktop that is specifically optimized for video conferencing with WebRTC integration • Removal of Content Security Policy directive 'plugin-types' • Removal of WebRTC RTP data channels • Return of empty for navigator.plugins and navigator.mimeTypes Android version • "Stability and performance improvements."
    1 point
  42. No I will not waste time pointing out everything wrong with some random person's mockup except mentioning that it's too simple and already missing too many things at first glance. Unless you work at Microsoft on the Explorer shell and listening in which case I will give feedback via the Hub app 🙂
    1 point
  43. I also think it just cluttered it and it didn't feel right from a privacy perspective. The MRU file list is an old, established concept.
    1 point
  44. Is this sound bad? (PSU ?)

    That sounds like a fan groaning. It could be your PSU or your back fan. Take a q-tip and stop the fans. One by one. If it stops the whining, that is the culprit.
    1 point
  45. Proton Calendar beta now available for all ProtonMail users

    Am i the only one who finds price of proton mail paid version to be a little bit unreasonable ? I use the free tier and would love to support them if it was like 10$ a year or something.
    1 point
  46. Best free anti-malware software?

    The real question is do you need a separate malware scanner? Most AV's scan for Malware as well, so do you need a standalone scanner?
    1 point
  47. I finished the main storyline back in January. I've been holding off for the fixes to experience Night City as it should be. Probably by the end of the year, I may jump back in. This is looking great! Keep it up!
    1 point
  48. Epic Games raises $1 billion in the latest round of funding

    Wait, I don't understand. Why raise money? I don't think they were after money, and this is just a PR to get attention. Software has a very high gross margin, and Fortnite, according to Investopedia (https://www.investopedia.com/t...-does-fortnite-make-money/) netted 1.2 billion in 2019 alone. It makes no sense that they would have such high operating costs per year, that they would need and additional investment vs using all of their profitable income streams. I'm not buying it.
    1 point