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Worthless... old stuff touted as new after it was broken on purpose...
I've been reading up on the Windows 10 October Update. Some of the 'new' features...
- Make Text Bigger (Wow. This was possible since Windows 95 through to Windows 7, pared down in Windows 8, and finally removed in Windows 10. I hope this is independent from the scaling option, as it used to be.)
- More Fluent Design/Acrylic look. (Yeej. Say hi to Aero's grandchild. Slowly, Windows 10 starts to look like KDE Plasma almost 10 years ago. We HAD semi-transparency and blurs in Vista and 7, but Windows 8 flattened everything.)
- Shadows under modern menu's. (It was about time, wasn't it? The ultra-flat Windows 8 interface was unusable. Fortunately, MS restored shadows to classic/normal Windows and menu's, but they took 6 years to get around to adding shadows to modern menu's.)
- Dark Theme (This has been available on Linux since the dawn of time. Worse, MS's incarnation doesn't seem to be a dark theme, it's completely and utterly 0,0,0 BLACK. That's not usable. Why not use the very dark gray schemes of editors such as Atom and Visual Studio Code?)
- More Emoji (I was waiting for that. Really.)
- Notepad gets tabs (apparently) and some new features, including a big _performance update_ (??) and it will supports Unix line endings. (Why did this take nearly 25 years? Still, Notepad stays next to useless. Just like Wordpad, Paint, Paint3D, and Mail. I don't know ANYONE who uses those programs on a regular basis.)
Granted, there ARE some useful features in there such as "Open Linux Shell here" (I'll have to look into that; I still use MSYS2 or Git Bash for a lot of shell tasks as I REALLY don't like the verbosity of Poweshell, and I'm disinclined to learn it because I have known the Unix commandline for almost 20 years.
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