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Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns (www.windowslatest.com)
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Electron apps are ruining the Windows 11 experience, and even the JavaScript creator has warned against ‘rushed web UX over native,’ but it doesn’t look like that will change Microsoft’s plans. In a post on X and other places, Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to AI in Windows 11 and encouraged Electron developers to consider using AI in their apps.

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[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Dude. Same. Windows 11 at work is fucking awful.

My laptop idles at 12 out of 16 gigs of RAM free.

Right clicking takes dozens of seconds, especially on a network share.

Did IT remove a letter mapped network drive? Haha! Fuck you! Windows hangs indefinitely if you open Windows explorer. You gotta fuck around in the registry to remove that shit.

The only good thing about windows 11 is tabs in Windows explorer. Which MacOS and Linux have had for a gazillion years.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft don't care about file shares anymore anyway, they want you to sign up for OneDrive :(

[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

All our network shares are Azure hosted, so Microslop is getting corporate $$$ regardless. And I think that bug has been around since forever.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

This reminds me that many years ago, there was a small market for better file managers in Windows. Most were more like "side grades" that were better in some ways, but worse than others, but there was one that was way better than all of them called Directory Opus. It was silly expensive for the time (I want to say like $80), and most others were free, but holy shit was it feature filled, including tabs, and just really good. It was also a bit heavy compared to explorer back then. Now it probably runs insanely fast and is still way better. I just looked and it still exists at basically the same price, but any sane person considering it should just leave Windows.

[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I use a Norton Commander clone (Total Commander) lol. Having a huge list of bookmarks in a drop-down menu with subfolders is super helpful for my work.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

NC and Total Commander are honestly great and probably greatly preferrable to Windows Explorer these days.