re: If you have windows 7, what is the next /best move for window users?

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also kinda bullshite to have the start menu open on Windows and not have at a minimum a finder window open on the Mac

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No it isn't. Almost everything you need is at the bottom of the screen. I'll bet the typical Mac user rarely needs the Finder, whereas Windows throws that crappy layout in your face and the typical Windows user is stuck with it, unless they know how to reconfigure the whole start screen and run "Powerscripts" and such....

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No it isn't. Almost everything you need is at the bottom of the screen. I'll bet the typical Mac user rarely needs the Finder, whereas Windows throws that crappy layout in your face and the typical Windows user is stuck with it, unless they know how to reconfigure the whole start screen and run "Powerscripts" and such....

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So... you are either being obtuse, or you are seriously a moron, the start menu hasn't been a "go-to" for anything since Windows XP (2006 is when Vista came out) - the taskbar at the bottom of Windows is now EXACTLY like the dock on Mac, and actually easier to pin things to it than Macs, because Window's search isn't ganky like Mac OS

Also, you are missing the point, the Start menu doesn't look like your picture anymore:



Also, just a normal desktop, with the taskbar, which EVERYONE uses now, as a comparison to your stupid post:



ETA: I haven't run a single "Powerscript" anything on my computer, I could, but there is no need

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doesn't that sprout up one I click the start button?

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No, my picture above is what happens when you click on start, your picture is out of date

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Are you saying that's not the default Windows 10?

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No, default Windows doesn't even call it "start" anymore, it's just the "Windows button menu"

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Isn't that how Microsoft thinks I should "Start"?

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No, they want you to use your taskbar and search

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What picture above?

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d go to a more Mac like look.

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The dark bar on the bottom, not centered and with an icon menu in the right for running applications... with the chance to minimize running applications.. no, they aren't going with a Mac look, it's still very different.

If you are talking about the background image, I figured I would make that my default background image since you seem simple minded and might actually point out that difference.

Everything is done through search now, and Windows 10 doesn't have shitty spotlight ruining everything, so I would put Win10 WAY ahead of Catalina where I constantly have to reset Spotlight for my customers (which works maybe half the time).

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full disk clean and do a clean install of windows 10?

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It's always best practice to do this, even though its not always necessary.

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for those messing with LINUX, do those version have the option to run it strictly on command line, or is it just desktop versions?

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Some distros are strictly command line and some are command line and GUI

All depends on which you wanna use

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Windows throws that crappy layout in your face and the typical Windows user is stuck with it, unless they know how to reconfigure the whole start screen and run "Powerscripts" and such....

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this isn't true. i don't use scripts and i almost never use my start. all my programs of note are on my taskbars, just like MacOS

it's not "in your face" unless you use it. and you can modify it (without scripts) how you wish

here's how my home pc/tablet is set up (and i only pulled up the start menu to show you what mine looks like. it almost never gets used, though b/c my programs are on the taskbar below. screen shot taken with post in back to show it's in real time)

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Wow, you found a bug that was fixed in less than an hour, good on you

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It's not actually a bad design:

I tell someone they should use "application x" and they search "application x" but it's not installed on their computer. The Bing search actually links them to the download page of the application and they download it and install it... How often is this done? Very little. But it's not a bad design, and in an Enterprise environment I have it turned off for my workers with a very simple group policy.

ETA: the only reason I turn it off for my workers is they can't install things on their computers, so it would be a pointless feature for them