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I really have run those and I have a Mac too.
But I'm dev and I really like Visual Studio.
And I'm also lazy and I just want Windows to be right. Why can't they just make it right!!! WHINE!!! 
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Reinstall Win 7 and put it in a VM. That's what I'm going to do...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Reinstall Win 7 and put it in a VM. That's what I'm going to do.
That really is a great idea. If I weren't just so lazy...
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Have you tried WinForms with Mono on your Ubuntu yet?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No, but I did do a quick command line app in monodevelop.
I haven't yet found proof that a GUI app is even possible in mono.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I haven't yet found proof that a GUI app is even possible in mono.
You can have your WinForms even on the Raspberry 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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raddevus wrote: The Old Stuff Is Actually Better
I've been preaching that for a long time now
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I've been preaching that for a long time now
Preach on, friend.
I'm (and all of the good thinkers at CP are) listening.
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Mouse Settings --> Mouse & touchpad --> More mouse options --> Pointer Options --> Motion
Isn't this what yer after?
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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If the answer is gross, that's fine. I'll weight for the answer, none the less.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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MacSpudster wrote: If the answer is gross, that's fine. I'll weight for the answer, none the less.
Every night I lie awake dreaming of puns like that. 
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Slowly but surely, with each new iteration of Windows 10, MS is migrating more and more of the old dialog boxes that work to a new UI that doesn't.
On a similar rant:
These days when you right-click the network icon next to the clock and try to access the Network and Sharing Center (which used to be RIGHT THERE), you now get brought to a Network Status page, which kinda has some of the old options, but not everything. For everything that's missing, there's a link to the Network and Sharing Center.
In other words, you now have to go through an extra screen to locate the option that brings up the old dialog.
I understand what they're ultimately trying to accomplish, but until they get there, try to explain why "this is better" to a non-technical person...
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dandy72 wrote: migrating more and more of the old dialog boxes that work to a new UI that doesn't.
Totally agree and your example is a great one that shows yet another failure that is similar to this whole MODERN UI failure that is a FAILURE OF UX (User Experience) ala I just remember that I hate using these products.
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How about "Show Window Contents while Dragging". I found the options dialog didn't have this setting any more - at all! I ended up setting the setting manually from code when I started a drag and then restoring it when finished. This worked great by the way but being able to set it for a given application is no longer possible - AFAIK.
The UI options are going down the tubes until the UX sux!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I blame the Steves of the world.
Steve Jobs for coming up with the iPad and convincing the world that touch screens were the future.
Then Steve Ballmer for going into a panic and thinking the world was going to abandon Windows in favor of tablets unless it went all touch-friendly and giving us Windows 8 as a response. Then they scaled it back with 10 seeing the failure that 8 was, but MS would never admit to making a mistake and abandon that step back of a UI.
7 is still the last usable version of Windows. It's no accident it's also the last version that predates touch UIs.
Someone prove me wrong.
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dandy72 wrote: Steve Jobs
dandy72 wrote: Steve Ballmer
Down with Steves!!
dandy72 wrote: Someone prove me wrong.
No one can.
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To the Eric Conspiracy we can now add the Steve Conspiracy...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I use 'Classic Shell' which among other things changes the Start Menu to look just like Windows 7. You can find the Mouse Settings from the Control Panel menu.
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Roland M Smith wrote: I use 'Classic Shell'
Interesting. a third-party shell? Wow.
Roland M Smith wrote: You can find the Mouse Settings from the Control Panel men
Hahaha, you've opened up another door for me to bring a rant!
you cannot get to Control Panel from the Start Menu (right-click) any more. 
https://i.stack.imgur.com/0FWZ0.png[^]
Or, did you mean in ClassicShell?
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raddevus wrote: you cannot get to Control Panel from the Start Menu (right-click) any more
To me, the solution I eventually found for that makes things simpler than accessing it from the Start menu right-click in the first place: Pin the Control Panel applet right on the taskbar.
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