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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: Win11 explorer bug?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:01:13 -0800
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On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:22:51 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

>On 11/12/2024 02:48, john larkin wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:15:43 +0000, Martin Brown
>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/12/2024 21:47, john larkin wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:26:20 +0000, Martin Brown
>>>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/12/2024 17:41, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Spice is the only thing I do that needs a lot of compute power.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trouble with solving huge non-linear matrix problems is that they don't
>>>>> parallelise at all well. You could well be better off with whichever of
>>>>> the current CPU crop has the fastest single threaded performance.
>>>>
>>>> I wish the monster graphics processor could run Spice.
>>>
>>> Why do you use the monster graphics processor then?
>> 
>> We have IT consultants. I told them to get me four identical PCs,
>> small towers with modest graphics and Win10. They bought four monsters
>> that I literally can't carry alone, with a crazy GPU mess. The
>> motherboard is about 8" square and the GPU is the size and weight of a
>> small tractor.
>
>I will concede that it is extremely difficult to convince any vendor 
>that you want such a high spec machine with very basic graphics. I think 
>it went round three times before they accepted that I really knew what I 
>wanted and understood the trade offs involved. Sales questioned it, 
>pre-build review questioned it and then the guy building it rang up too.
>
>Yes I was sure I didn't want their high spec graphics card using twice 
>as much power as all the rest of the machine put together.
>
>> After months of tuning and registry edits and add-ons, it's usable but
>> not enjoyable.
>> 
>> They do seem to be reliable.
>
>I don't find Win11 different enough to Win7 to really notice anything 
>other than a few minor cosmetic niggles that are easily fixed like right 
>click menus that by default don't include the features I use most often.

File drag and drop is the worst. If the destination file exists, you
have to enter a secondary dialog that itself makes no sense.

I have to read the file dates and times manually, before I copy.

I do have a little program that copies folders and only does the later
date files.

Another bad thing about 11 is that it likes to pop up ugly things that
make it hard to see what you are doing.

And keeps changing folder views. I don't want to see cartoons just
because I'm copying a jpeg.

Why does the biggest programming team in history write such garbage
code?