[whalesalad]

Win10 is particularly bad. I have recently started to maintain some Windows infrastructure and have been simulating a new deployment with Server 19, Win 10 clients, Win 7 clients, etc... and the start menu on modern Windows is absolutely unbearable. That combined with the constant full screen takeover modals for basic permissions, and the default icon collapse task bar ... it’s definitely a high bar for a new user.

[uryga]

you can change the way permission modals display to make them a pop-up window w/o the fullscreen! makes them much less jarring

[timw4mail]

How?

[uryga]

when a permissions popup appears, click "More details" -> "Change when these notifications appear", then take the slider down one step, to "Notify me [...] (do not dim my desktop)".

that's on Windows 10 though, not sure if it's possible on older versions