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by donutpepperoni 1178 days ago
I'm glad you shared this. I have a very similar computing background to the authors. I used Microsoft exclusively until I started working in datacenters and then I switched to Mac/Linux. I was even a "Microsoft Certified Professional" at the age of 17 because of how much I had used the OS and remembered about how it worked. It was clunky and weird then but it's gotten even weirder now. All of the legacy clunk remains and now they're shoehorning more awkward stuff on top. For decades the first thing I would do on a fresh install of windows is move the task bar to the top.

Now Microsoft states that as a design choice they won't let you move the task bar:

https://www.reviewgeek.com/114501/microsoft-explains-why-you...