Chuck(G)
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Let's not forget useless screen clutter. I'm speaking from experience with software IDEs. But then, that extends to an awfully large number of web sites also.
A huge chunk of this is because things are designed around "dark patterns" these days. Literally anti-user user interface design. Intended to trick users in to giving up personal information, accepting advertising, or spending money.UI design though is atrocious today compared with 15 years ago. It's like they took every design principle and did the opposite. Still think w95 style desktop is MUCH simpler for a novice to understand than post Win7. I have not used modern MacOS and some of the new paradigms in Linux desktop have not been well received either. Websites have gone downhill too. Why is everything an icon? three horizontal lines suddenly meant menu? Why not just write 'Menu'? Everything like textboxes has unneeded css to the point you're not sure it is a text box. JavaScript to load images? Really? Ok if a site is interactive like discord, I can understand it being js-laden, but most sites it is totally unnecessary.
I can understand new tasks being resource hogs like playing HD video. But stuff that could be done 20+ years ago with an average computer should not.
You make a valif point. Office 97 is and was excellent. I use office 2003 with the 2007 update patches so it can use .***x file associations. mostly because its not resource intensive and I cannot use tbe ribbon. it destroyed my productivity. was using office since ver 3 and i knew where everything was. why wouls i want a hosted program rather than having my files safe on my computer? Why would I want a bloated program to do something i could have done on a 386 faster?I second the emotion. I was using Excel 97' to document some settings on a new guitar pedal I designed a while back on my 486 DX4 and was shocked to find even back then, in the 90's, we had separate "sheets" within a spreadsheet. So why do I need to use Excel 365 when I can use Excel 97', fit the XLS file on a floppy diskette with some nice, and easy to read formatting. Oh I know - (late stage) CAPITALISM.
As an I.T. pro, something I've noticed about these new UI designs is that they sometimes beautify the interface so much it's hard to tell where the decoration ends and the functionality begins - ie white bar with a soft or slight gradient, with a tiny, 4pt carat for an arrow, for some kind of basic function. I get that a lot of it now is to "slimline" the look or make it "easy for touch" but it seems to me a lot of what they really end up doing is ruining the UI of any usability from a regular person. Hell, I get confused by the modern UI's sometimes because of these tiny or subtle changes that are supposed to suggest a function, but with a contrast setting different, or heck, even just on the norm, it looks like nothing is there and/or the icon for it is not immediatley obvious. This is why I'm a huge fan of the old style Windows 95 and Windows 3.1x icon style - because it's so low-res, cartooney, and blatent, it's hard to miss that you have an icon. What's funny is this seems to mostly be a problem with commercial software moreso than with Open Source - which I have heard "normies" call "ugly" or "outdated" - but the thing is, sometimes, something "ooooooold" might actually be better suited functionality wise if the "new" style is damaging things that the old style developers did not have to account for originally.
Maybe I don't understand what you mean by this last statement but my impression is you're saying 20/20 computers don't do gaming out of the box. And I might be inclined to agree with youOh i forgot gaming.
You can game on a high end 2010 PC since most of the work is done with the GPU these days. The real limitation of a 2010 PC is nvme support (or lack of) plus RAM limitations.
CPU Model | GPU Model | P Rating | GPU Score | CPU Score |
I7-2600K | R9-270X | 27567 | 28948 | 24116 |
FX-4100 | GTX 660 | 15461 | 20092 | 9140 |
FX-4100 | R9-280X | 18065 | 26930 | 9089 |
I7-980X | R9-280X | 33627 | 34555 | 31122 |
I3-4160 | GTX 660 | 20021 | 24735 | 12739 |
FX-4100 | R9-270X | 16507 | 22898 | 8984 |
E3-1240 V3 | GTX 660 | 25831 | 25293 | 27591 |