Meet the Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download New Software
November 6th, 2023For many years, companies have been changing OS and application features and interfaces FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASON.
Users mostly hate this, especially because the changes are often terrible.
Easily the most absurd example of this in recent times was on Windows 11. Microsoft removed the ability to never combine icons on the taskbar. Bewildered Windows 11 users thought that there had to be a mistake, something they were missing. Maybe Microsoft moved the setting?
Nope. The functionality was removed (along with a lot of other standard and familiar things). People sought out third party software in attempt to fix the issue.
Only after years of complaining did Microsoft decide to return the never combine functionality to the taskbar in development builds. This has still not rolled out to mainstream users.
Just yesterday, I noticed that Adobe’s PDF reader had shit the bed again and started floating useless toolbars all over the place. No options to remove them were visible in any standard way. The View dropdown menu, visible in applications since the 1980s… Gone. Actually, the entire menu bar was gone.
I had been using open source PDF readers for years, but Adobe puts a large amount of effort into breaking things. I needed to interact with a document that simply wouldn’t work without Adobe’s closed source blob. That’s why I installed it.
The search that worked for me was: adobe pdf reader restore legacy view. I found, Acrobat 2023: How to revert to classic GUI user interface.
Anyway, so it goes…
I have had people ask me what they can do to make it stop. Besides suggesting to stop using computers and modern phones, I have no good advice.
Linux Mint seems to have a fairly slow (meaning good) pace of, “Innovations.” Maybe that will be the way I’ll go when I finally can’t stand Windows anymore. (I’m still on Windows 10, which goes end of life in October 2025.) Mint looks a lot like Windows 7, which was the last version of Windows that I didn’t hate.
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Love of the status quo or fear of unknown issues? Some phone and computer users are holding on to earlier OS versions for dear life.
Statista says Microsoft has 221,000 full-time employees around the world. That’s 1,768,000 man-hours per day. What are they busy doing? Or, how are they killing so much time?
They waste a lot of time creating garbage that fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7KqCbnjfw
I still use Windows 7 – too lazy to upgrade.