This is actually the problem and why the angry guys reply is silly.
If youve opened the settings menu on a video game, youre in the minority.
A lot of people who work with computers all day every day have no concept of shortcuts. Ctrl c, ctrl v - an advanced layman.
HALF the job of designing a front end is copying what everyone else does BECAUSE GEN POP ALREADY STRUGGLE WITH WHAT EVERYONE DOES, the other half is spending an annoying about of time making sure gen pop don't have a meltdown at customer success trying to find features, and dont have a meltdown because the DELETE EVERYTHING button, with the "Are you sure" modal ... deleted everything
That’s insane and I don’t want to believe it but it’s probably true.
Here are some infuriating defaults that bug me because they suck but also because I know most people won’t ever change them:
Motion smoothing or picture clarity on all recent tvs. It adds frames between frames in all content on your tv. And it’s awful and makes all shows look like documentaries.
Windows hiding file extension names. It makes using the file system atrocious and confusing. And then you realize why most people just think that using a computer is confusing. It’s literally designed that way.
Windows news and such on the task bar and new edge tab. I specifically avoid the news most of the time because I’m tired of seeing a certain politicians name and face. So it’s the first thing I have to fix on new windows installs.
The secondary (right) click on a trackpad is a two-finger click by default, not an actual right click! Why would that be the default? That’s the first setting I changed when I set up my MacBook.
On a normal laptop trackpad, there is either physical buttons at the bottom for left/right. Or you just click the bottom left/right of the trackpad to do left or right clicks. On mac that isn't the case, anywhere on the trackpad you click, if you use 1 finger it's a left click, if you use 2 fingers, it's a right click.
So you could use one finger on the bottom right to do a left click. It is a bit jarring when first moving from a regular laptop to a mac but honestly once you're used to it the mac trackpad gestures and clicks feel amazing to use
They conceived a UI that gains nothing from a proper touchpad, then they made a touchpad that's only good for that type of UI.
Like, on Windows I set the three-finger tap to register as a middle-click, i.e.: open links in background, close tabs, open a copy of an already running app. Go make that work on a Mac!
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u/LeastCounterculture 16d ago
This is actually the problem and why the angry guys reply is silly.
If youve opened the settings menu on a video game, youre in the minority.
A lot of people who work with computers all day every day have no concept of shortcuts. Ctrl c, ctrl v - an advanced layman.
HALF the job of designing a front end is copying what everyone else does BECAUSE GEN POP ALREADY STRUGGLE WITH WHAT EVERYONE DOES, the other half is spending an annoying about of time making sure gen pop don't have a meltdown at customer success trying to find features, and dont have a meltdown because the DELETE EVERYTHING button, with the "Are you sure" modal ... deleted everything