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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. Neowin Community Minecraft Server

    was wondering if we can get keepinvatory turned on and us of /back? also whats the rule on chunk louders?
    1 point
  32. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    SN-15 launch target: next week
    1 point
  33. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    Yeah I foresee Boeing asking NASA for more money to "maintain capability" soon. I hope they just give the money to Sierra Navada instead
    1 point
  34. its rolling out but if you want it immediately you can enable flag "link to highlight"
    1 point
  35. Microsoft Edge 90 is out with Kids Mode and more

    Okay, so can anyone please explain to me what the purpose of “Guest” is because there has been something called “Private Browsing” since 2008 or earlier. So why Guest mode suddenly became a thing (even though private browsing still exists) made me scratch my head since day 1! At least one difference is that with Guest mode they don't see all your bookmarks unlike Private.
    1 point
  36. Somewhere somebody is ready to talk to you about their lord and savior, hierarchical column-based navigation. Agree that these concepts are making the mistake of having the wrong conversation.
    1 point
  37. All I see is a web browser UI with the existing folder pane on the left plus tags. Am I missing something? The best part about this concept is how absolutely ignorant of Windows it's made some other sites look. I think I first encountered this concept in an article on The Verge where the writer excitedly pointed out how "there's even nested folders" in the folder pane, as if they haven't looked at Windows Explorer since literally Windows 95 and thinks every folder still opens up into a new window or something. Articles about this are also littered with comparisons to Finder, which seems strange, since in terms of substance that only boils down to the tags? Any other similarities I don't quite see as uniquely Mac-ish, but rather ubiquitous to a lot of OS file navigation options and hard to remember who did what first. All in all, meh. Points for a concept that looks convincingly like real software? Can't say the same for virtually all other concepts out there that feel like the design equivalent of a YouTube comment -- full of itself, benefitting nobody, sometimes even harmful. Actual review: says "Home" in too many places at the same time. The one-row toolbar is nice and reminds me of the newer Office minimal ribbon. Having the tree pane "outside" of the tab view seems disjointed and awkward, though. Each tab has its own "state" of the pane, right? If the state of the pane is an attribute of the tab, then it makes more sense visually to be within the tab container. Needs a messier example. Concepts need to be pushed with real life situations that make us frustrated today and are the problems that would be "solved" or improved upon by the new approach. Get more than two drives in there, add some network storage, get several folders deep, pin more stuff, make things wrap and overflow, yeah? It's only pretty until it gets ugly. Is this in an "ugly" situation better than what we already have in the same situation?
    1 point
  38. Best free anti-malware software?

    Adrozek did require user involvement which can get you infected on any platform. LOL I believe Windows 10X is supposed to be somewhat container based. Does that also mean no built-in admin/root access like Android and iOS? That is the number one reason for malware infection but I don't want that taken away on Windows. TBH malware hasn't been much of a concern for me on any platform for many years now.
    1 point
  39. Kinda $hit concept because it is missing important ribbon UI functionality
    1 point
  40. Thanks for the correction.
    1 point
  41. Meh... Already see lots of usability issues for people who actually do more stuff than just copy a file over. I've been using the much more powerful XYplorer for years now, and File Explorer feels so clunky compared to it.
    1 point
  42. Only 4 more Blake revisions to go!
    1 point
  43. No it didn't do anything good for my productivity. Also no support for for 3rd party apps.
    1 point
  44. I never quite got the concept of timeline. It didn't fit into my workflow in any meaningful way, which is a shame because I like the idea but not the implementation.
    1 point
  45. Perfect Virtual Desktop was the MAIN feature, but they decided to bloat it with timeline, that was unnecessary and hinders the positive and needed feature that was virtual desktop
    1 point
  46. Epic Games raises $1 billion in the latest round of funding

    Doesn't make sense at all though. Sony does exactly what Apple does on their PlayStation devices. They are tightly integrated with Sony's own PSN store. Alternative stores are not allowed. And publishers and developers pay a 30% cut to Sony for being able to sell their software on the PSN store. So in that sense, Sony is funding Epic that is trying to legally fight exactly what Sony themselves are doing to a well established and big platform of devices and services. Sure, valid point, but Sony isn't just the Playstation brand. They've got a good chunk of video/music being sold to. Games are the ones we all hear about in this 30% mess. Hell, MS is on EPICs side and they do the same with Xbox to, so how do you explain that? Besides, you could make an argument that the game consoles are specific devices just to games only and not general purpose devices like smartphones have become. You could also argue that the vast different in the two market sizes are the key difference as far as what influences the market more. Smartphone sales dwarf any console sales. The 110mil+ PS4 sales are a drop in the ocean when you look at phone and tablet iOS sales alone, even more if you add in android sales.
    1 point
  47. Adobe announces a bunch of video editing improvements in Premiere

    The biggest gripe people have with Adobe is the subscription model. Compared to the old CD sets of the Suite, the subs are way more expensive. And after stopping the sub, you cannot access your files anymore. My latest CD's are CS6, and I still don't miss anything out of the new versions. I also have the Affinity set of applications, Photo, Designer & Publisher, and do most of my graphic work in there. It all depends on your needs and how to deliver things for a client. In addition, I nowadays also use Fusion instead of Nuke, and Blender instead of Maya or 3dsmax. Saved me a ton of money in the last couple of years, and without almost no 'migration pains'. Said that, I do sometimes open up these programs to access the old file types, or tweak an old project that came back. In the end it all depends on where you work, how the workflow is set up, and how deliver to, or work with client files. Me personally, I can work just fine without most of the 'big guns' of the industry atm.
    1 point
  48. Testing the Nvidia RTX 4090

    The real struggle is finding a case for the beast Top marks for this man's dedication to today though 👍
    1 point