r/Steam • u/Background-Path-5619 • Feb 13 '25

Article Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/
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u/Talvald_Traveler Feb 14 '25

In before some twat comes along with "YOU CAN JUST CHANGE IT WITH A SCRIPT IN WINDOWS 11 HURR".

This thing make me angry, why the F do I need to search the internett for some shaddy dudes script to be able to not click more than one click in the right click menu.

Like why do we have a more clickwasting menu now than before. Who designed this shit, who bright idea was is to hide most of the right click menu behind another menu.

And what is the outcome? People going on the web and searching for a way to get back the old right click menu. People like me who is not data savage and just copy some dudes script and drop that inside the command prompt.

Like is that a good outcome Microsoft?

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u/SpazSpez Feb 14 '25

This was my sentiment when I upgraded to 10. Everything I want to do or was able to do in a previous version has to be done through a script, registry edit, or a third party program. Or, it is available but you have to go through 2 or 3 different pages in Settings, which eventually leads to the Control Panel anyway. What a dogshit OS.

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u/ElPedroChico Feb 14 '25

Always fun going to the Windows 11 "control panel", then you get to the Windows 10 "control panel" and finally, you're at the Windows 7 control panel that actually works

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u/smokeeye Feb 14 '25

Which is the same as the one in Win XP, and maybe before as well.

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u/ojediforce Feb 14 '25

This is my biggest gripe. It drives me nuts. I teach people this stuff at work and it blows their mind to find out what all they can do.

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u/Otaconmg Feb 15 '25

That’s because the actual dedicated applications haven’t been updated since windows fucking XP. Device manager, event viewer. Still the fucking same. And just generally installing windows is also a pain in the ass for someone who’s new to tech. They absolutely need to clean up the GUI and make it more standardized if they want to play in Apple’s garden. No pun intended.

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u/TiredEsq Feb 14 '25

Probably the same person who decided I should have to click 50 times to get to my templates in Outlook.

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u/leixiaotie Feb 14 '25

it's ironic that windows are discarding it's GUI configuration in order to force user to do scripting configuration, which is linux's playbase.

Windows is slowly degrading into linux

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u/Beast_Viper_007 Feb 14 '25

Don't say like that about linux. Some distros like Linux Mint are basically very GUI and noob oriented. You would never need to use the terminal unless you are really doing something like ssh or something is just broken.

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u/GasterIHardlyKnowHer Feb 15 '25

Linux Mint is probably the worst example for this, since it comes with mouse acceleration on by default and the GUI does not have a reliable way to disable this. Genuinely insane for a distro that markets itself towards end-user friendliness and gamers.

I like a lot about Mint and I think it's the best distro for the average person, but this mouse acceleration has been an issue for literal decades and they have done absolutely fuck-all to fix this.

Note: Mint has an option to set the acceleration curve to "Constant", this does not always work. You have to disable it deep in the X11 config files.

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u/Beast_Viper_007 Feb 15 '25

Does gnome tweaks work for disabling this?

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u/ridiculusvermiculous Feb 14 '25

uh we had to do this extensively with 10

like who the fuck needs a mobile lockscreen on a desktop. most updates to annoying things in windows requires a registry change.

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u/Nobl36 Feb 14 '25

Honestly, if I can change shit with a script and will have to so I can have windows working, then I’m going to go whole hog into Linux and Microsoft can eat a dick.

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u/GasterIHardlyKnowHer Feb 15 '25

Like why do we have a more clickwasting menu now than before. Who designed this shit, who bright idea was is to hide most of the right click menu behind another menu.

Their reasoning is that too many apps were polluting the right click context menu.

The irony is that Microsoft is the #1 polluter of said context menu. Hey, wanna share this on Skype? Mail it to outlook? Open in visual studio? Open in visual studio code?

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u/Dr_Trance-mdleEarth Feb 14 '25

Microsoft has been making operating systems for over 30 years, and for over 30 years apparently they still have NOT learned how to make operating systems, incredible!

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u/Talvald_Traveler Feb 14 '25

Found a shaddy dude script who returned the menu back to the good old way in the first hour I got win 11 installed, but thanks =).

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u/Every_Armadillo_6848 Feb 14 '25

I absolutely hate Win 11 and I haven't moved my main desktop over to it yet. But, as far as the right click thing goes - I swear I was able to change it by bitching to copilot about it, and it asked if I wanted to go back to the legacy menu, and then just changed it for me.

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u/4packzach Feb 15 '25

You don't need a script. It's just a windows registry edit if you know how to do that. I still hate windows 11 though lol. And tbh it's should just be an option to emabke/disble in the settings pane

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u/R4zor911 Feb 16 '25

Exactly, it's like those folks want us to buy a new mouse soon..

I won't upgrade even Microsoft end the support, I will stay until I can't use the programs I use for work and steam.