I love Windows Update.
It knows to restart my computer automatically when I leave it on overnight to download a large file. giggle;
It knows how much I love checking for updates, selecting them all, downloading and installing them, then checking for updates again since more magically appear each time.
I LOVE WINDOWS UPDATE
Start menu
Taskbar
active desktop
group policy snap-ins and Roles. they've designed such a lovely system where instead of simply downloading a software package and installing it, you can just search through pre-defined compatibility lists until you find the one closest to what you need, and install it with a user-friendly Installation Wizard! if something you need isn't listed or elaborated in the role's settings, it probably won't work anyway, so windows just saves you the trouble of finding that out yourself by disallowing you from even trying.
also, installation wizards.
I also love Windows update, especially since it knows I love to get prompts asking if I want to restart which know that I want it to restart by itself if I don't respond to it and that when I'm running a full-screen program I don't want to know about the prompt until it starts rebooting.
The filename restrictions are also very useful. I'm glad Windows prevents me from using most non-alphanumeric symbols on my keyboard to name files with and complains and misbehaves when it sees a file left by an inferior OS with a bad name. It's also nice that Windows prevents me from managing confusing symbolic links.
Windows's lack of a useful shell is great and prevents me from wrongly opening security holes with something like an SSH server.
these are probably the geekiest posts i have seen on this forum.
Quote from: gumy on September 16, 2012, 05:12:25 PM
these are probably the geekiest posts i have seen on this forum.
go play some Tiger Puzzle on your dashboard macfag
Quote from: lifetrends on September 16, 2012, 05:15:11 PM
go play some Tiger Puzzle on your dashboard macfag
i dunt have tger
Windows key + l
Quote from: Khadafi on September 16, 2012, 04:10:56 PM
I love Windows Update.
It knows to restart my computer automatically when I leave it on overnight to download a large file. giggle;
It knows how much I love checking for updates, selecting them all, downloading and installing them, then checking for updates again since more magically appear each time.
I LOVE WINDOWS UPDATE
And I love how I figured out to turn that particular feature off many years ago.
Quote from: Patsy Stone on September 16, 2012, 05:52:06 PM
that's not an unique feature though...
but it's a windows feature that's what the OP asks
my favorite windows feature is the windows
Quote from: Thyme on September 16, 2012, 05:53:09 PM
my favorite windows feature is the windows
ifeelbetter;
Quote from: Thyme on September 16, 2012, 05:53:09 PM
but it's a windows feature that's what the OP asks
my favorite windows feature is the windows
I'm sure you'd love Windows 8, then goodjob;
Well what other operating systems use the windows key?
Quote from: bluaki on September 16, 2012, 06:00:20 PM
I'm sure you'd love Windows 8, then goodjob;
jokes aside this is the main reason why i'm strongly opposed to windows 8 5thgrade;
Quote from: bluaki on September 16, 2012, 06:00:20 PM
I'm sure you'd love Windows 8, then goodjob;
i'm sure he will toothdood;
Quote from: Far Beyond Repair on September 16, 2012, 06:01:30 PM
Well what other operating systems use the windows key?
i'm referring to the feature to lock the screen
But that's not specific enough.
my favorite boyah feature is the slimes...............................
Quote from: Thyme on September 16, 2012, 06:09:32 PM
my favorite boyah feature is the slimes...............................
but boyah is hosted on a cluster of chromebooks, not windows related.........
Quote from: Dovydas on September 16, 2012, 06:11:52 PM
but boyah is hosted on a cluster of chromebooks, not windows related.........
if they can be bitter and passive-aggressive about the best OS ever i can be bitter and passive-aggressive about the best forum ever insultdood;
Quote from: Far Beyond Repair on September 16, 2012, 05:46:35 PM
Windows key + l
And I love how I figured out to turn that particular feature off many years ago.
you turned off windows update completely oh god
Even turning off automatic updates wouldn't resolve the fact that manually updating requires you to check for updates about 8 times before you finally get every update.
Quote from: Khadafi on September 16, 2012, 06:14:00 PM
you turned off windows update completely oh god
Even turning off automatic updates wouldn't resolve the fact that manually updating requires you to check for updates about 8 times before you finally get every update.
Not if you keep it up to date
I update it all the time akudood;
Then it just has more updates after I update it.
At most I've probably had it find updates once more after installing some, and that's rarely happened. Unless of course it's a computer that I haven't used in a while and therefore haven't updated in while.
I love how Windows is designed to make it impossible to manage multiple windows. Having to go to the taskbar and spend hours searching for a specific window of an application instead of instantly viewing them all or having them organized in multiple spaces helps keep me from multitasking. wrench;
Quote from: Pancake Persona on September 16, 2012, 07:42:10 PM
I love how Windows is designed to make it impossible to manage multiple windows. Having to go to the taskbar and spend hours searching for a specific window of an application instead of instantly viewing them all or having them organized in multiple spaces helps keep me from multitasking. wrench;
i mean yeah windows doesn't have expose but personally i find actual window organization much easier on windows 5thgrade;
Quote from: Creep Scanner on September 16, 2012, 10:06:23 PM
i mean yeah windows doesn't have expose but personally i find actual window organization much easier on windows 5thgrade;
then your either a genius or retarded!!!!!!!!!
i liek how my neighbors can see me masturbate through it
Quote from: lifetrends on September 17, 2012, 12:10:50 AM
then your either a genius or retarded!!!!!!!!!
it's more that you can snap a window to the sides, snap to the top for fullscreen, etc
on macs it seems like you just have to drag and expand the windows to the size you want, and if the dock isn't on auto-hide you have those corners of empty space
Quote from: Creep Scanner on September 17, 2012, 10:32:00 AM
it's more that you can snap a window to the sides, snap to the top for fullscreen, etc
on macs it seems like you just have to drag and expand the windows to the size you want, and if the dock isn't on auto-hide you have those corners of empty space
those snap to top/sides autosize thigns are fucking annoying
to be fair I detest using OS X on small screens, but on larger ones I find its iwndow management much more convenient
Quote from: lifetrends on September 17, 2012, 01:25:39 PM
those snap to top/sides autosize thigns are fucking annoying
to be fair I detest using OS X on small screens, but on larger ones I find its iwndow management much more convenient
idk i like the snap things
but ya os x is p. nice on larger screens
i use auto-hide anyways
Quote from: lifetrends on September 17, 2012, 01:25:39 PM
those snap to top/sides autosize thigns are fucking annoying
to be fair I detest using OS X on small screens, but on larger ones I find its iwndow management much more convenient
When trying to move windows, aero snap is pretty annoying. The drag-based snap is also rather limited in that it doesn't work with multiple monitors. Keyboard-based snapping (using Win+Left/Right), however, works perfectly fine and is pretty useful. I prefer to disable the mouse-based snapping.
Quote from: Creep Scanner on September 17, 2012, 10:32:00 AM
it's more that you can snap a window to the sides, snap to the top for fullscreen, etc
on macs it seems like you just have to drag and expand the windows to the size you want, and if the dock isn't on auto-hide you have those corners of empty space
I don't know about OS X, but Linux (and BSD etc) have plenty of (floating) window managers with similar window snapping, including at least Compiz (Ubuntu default) and xfwm4 (Xfce default). I'm currently using an entirely tiling-based window manager.