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by dusted 503 days ago
yeah, I've been forced onto it by corporate on my windows machine.. from an aesthetic and usability point of view, there's only negatives.. the ui is even worse than 10, flat and featureless and ugly, looks like a bad prototype theme for gnome, 20 years ago. They somehow managed to take the utter mess that were the settings of windows 10 and redefine the word utter to a new low. I'm sure there's some technical things in the kernel and system API that needed changing, but somehow I feel like they could have done that without changing anything that's on the screen.. I wonder if they actually put the thought and consideration into windows user experience that they did when they designed Chicago.
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Someone who had worked on the inside commented here that the Windows 10 design team didn't even use Windows, and things suddenly made so much more sense.

I think there's been some interesting changes on the kernel and user-space API side, but it's drowning in the UI shit show.

It's very clear usability is no longer a priority, and they change things just for the sake of change.