I love firefox. The only big difference for now is that it is better integrated with windows. You can swipe back on the trackpad to go back and use your touchscreen seamlessly (even the keyboard pops up correctly without screwing the size of the window) Firefox doesn't do that well.
I love firefox too, it's my go-to browser at work on Linux and at home on macOS. It really isn't as well integrated into macOS either though, especially compared to Chrome and Safari. The trackpad support (or lack of it) would probably have been a deal breaker when I got a mac if I wasn't already a long-term Firefox user and quite Google-sceptic.
I just made the move from Android 10 to iOS 13. I was shocked how complicated the process was. Not saying that one is more intuitive than the other.
But man...
No back button. The password manager didn’t integrate well. The keyboard didn’t adapt to the language I was typing in. Parameters were hidden in the settings app but sometimes also in the app itself. Force touch is impossible to predict without trying it (actionable notifications). The cloud is incompatible (I lost my WhatsApp history). The lock screen and the notification panel look the same but don’t show the same information (some notifications only show up in the nOtification panel). What the hell... the notification panel looks like the lock screen... Some control are stuck on an inaccessible and not obvious corner (abort the reorganization mode of main app starting panel).
I felt a bit stupid and understood the frustration of my 70 year old mother trying to learn how to use an iPhone. How am I supposed to explain it to her if it doesn’t make sense to me?
Nothing in the tech is really intuitive unless you truly know the product.
I felt hopeless and a bit depressed for y couple of days.
Thank god the hardware is gorgeous and the product feels great! :)
Swipe from the left edge of the screen, or tap the chevron in the top left.
> The lock screen and the notification panel look the same but don’t show the same information (some notifications only show up in the nOtification panel).
The lock screen hides historical notifications. You can scroll down to see them.
I don't get this kind of comment. I bought a surface pro 2 years ago. I had to turn off the promoted apps and uninstall a few commercial games. But since then, no commercial ever appeared on my start screen. Not saying it's good to bundle commercial app. But its not hell either, like Google pushing you to their services every time you use their search engine or YouTube...
And I think it's really bad practice to use scripts that break standard behavior of windows and nothing that should be encouraged to non technical people
And I don't get that kind of bootlicking mentality.
Google services are (mostly) free. Advertisements come with the territory. As for 'pushing', I'm using the search and youtube daily and I don't even have a google account.
Windows 10 Pro is 200$. In what world is that acceptable to bundle spyware, crapware and advertisements with it?
>And I think it's really bad practice to use scripts that break standard behavior of windows and nothing that should be encouraged to non technical people
"Don't ask questions, just consume the product". Keep enabling that shit, and in a few decades it will be illegal to tinker with your own fucking computer.
It's 200€, and my computer that is 10 years old can be kept up to date. Upgrades are really fast.
I really think that it is a rock solid operating system that opens up a lot of possibilities for developer while offering long term compatibility and stability.
At least windows leaves you the possibility to remove any promoted app or suggestion.
But like I said. I still think they should stop that ridiculous behavior. Just saying that the os is nonetheless great.
I agree. I wonder if Apple put a little tile up to show the new Mac Pro, or of Red Hat put a little widget up to show Red Hat cloud suite would we hear the same complaints.
It's just a little tile that shows a Microsoft product.
I run Windows 10 out-of-the-box on all my machines. I don't run any special "cracks" to remove features, but I may have turned off a few things from Control Panel; I don't remember.
It's a very good operating system. Rock solid. Runs 64- and 32- bit Windows programs, Linux Programs, and anything I want in a VM.
In the end, it seems that Microsoft adopting Chromium is pushing more and more tech people toward Firefox, fearing a monopoly of the former. Isn't that ironic?
The problem is mainly that the user interface is in my opinion horrible. Especially for new users (I've helped a few newbies), it's hard to see the tabs and to be aware that the browser created a new one.
From my limited experience using it (while teaching an intern how to do web dev), the Dev Tools are horrible and byzantine for some use cases - seems like while Chrome super charged their Dev Tools after the blink fork, Safari's got stuck in the past.
I find Firefox's Dev Tools far better, except the JS debugging tab, which is behind Chrome's on almost all counts.
A similar project has been on construction in Europe
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nant_de_Drance
Cost of $2B. I had the chance to visit the caverne where the turbines will be, really amazing engineering!
Pump storages are already all over Europe for decades. The most famous one being Kaprun/Austria, built by the Nazis in the 30ies. They are all over the Alps, as the green party lets them.
Those pump storages provide the very expensive peek electricity all over Europe, needed for the spikes in the morning and noon.
Nevada probably didn't need it back then, Hoover Dam was built for flood protection, and since then the levels are too low to work efficiently as pump storage. But since peek energy is in high demand they think it over.
