Tablets are giant phones, right? Uh, no, but phone culture has lowered the common denominator so far, MS probably thinks they’re brilliant by having Windows look like a phone.Īll I can is that Linux Kernel 5.6 can not make it into the majority of Linux Distros soon enough as I have one new 10/1809 Home laptop that needs some issues fixed for Linux and the fixes arriving with Kernel 5.6 and I can then get that 10/1809 laptop dual booting with Linux/Linux Mint(Hopefully) and relegate the laptop’s 10/1809 to offline usage only after Nov 2020. MS royally flubbed their entry into phones with WinRT/Win8 but kept the inane interface. Most programs will still cleanly do file associations just like the good old days but how many casual users know how? Most just click tiles and hope. Trashes the awful Phone Launcher Start Menu, too. Classic Shell Start Menu (now Open Shell) returns the start functionality Windows once had it’s search will find anything on your machine. Many of the older programs are still there, even Paint, just buried. It’s optional, along with IE, although both are simple to find with a search. Don’t laugh too hard but there’s a direct link to it in Settings>Apps>Apps&Features>Optional Features. If you want classic windows games, they’re available at winaero, search a bit, they’re also downloadable inside winareo tweaker (a superb utility), near the bottom. Both are basically Windows’ interfaces (KDE and Gnome) except they work, install in 10 minutes, don’t have seizure inducing flyouts or unexpected irrelevant notifications.ĭepends what you mean by ads, many apps have ads for MS. Yeah, I have Manjaro on a laptop and Ubuntu Server on a Dell T30 getting closer every day here, too.