I recently got my self a Dell XPS 15 ( which I returned because the effing store tried to pass a traditional hard drive as a SSD , but that's a different story , also shame on Dell for still making models with a regular hard drive and selling it as premium laptop ) and I wanted to exchange my impressions with other Mac users and also ask about a couple of things since I'll be using my friends windows 10 laptop until I decide if I'll buy the MacBook pro refresh or a kaby lake laptop .
The new interface and dark theme looks really nice , kudos to Microsoft , but damn windows explorer (Microsoft's version of finder ) is a mess in my opinion , it looks straight out of Windows , Microsoft just made it look flatter but not really , those icons look so outdated and there's just so much going on so many options , is there a way to get a replacement app for it ?
Also while the new interface looks really good it feels at times like two OS glued together , windows explorer (again , sorry I just really hate it ) if you try to change more than the first couple of settings you're thrown again to a windows XP sort of OS, deleting an app for example looks quite terrible .
Is there really no option to completely turn off the display? :/ 0% brightness is just the screen really dim but still on.
Can you make the notifications actually show up , because they just show up on the notification center but I never see an animation with them running across the street (aside from things like "installing " WhatsApp , telegram )
Is it possible to control the apps that automatically start once I start the computer ? Aka something like signing on apps (sorry that's the rough translation I use my computer in German ) , Everytime I started the laptop I had to wait quite a bit of time for it to become responsive since it was loading so many apps and some of them were apparently impossible to disable , why do I need to check for nvidia drivers every single time I turn on the computer ? Or Intel's fast storage app?!!
Is windows defender really safe ? An antivirus is not really necessary unless you're downloading shady apps / pirate apps ,streaming pirate films/porn right ?
How can I pin the recycle bin to the taskbar ? I don't like icons on my desktop.
Can you make the dock bigger ? I use 225% scaling so my dock gets reduced a bit too much for my taste and if I use 250% scaling everything on the os looks too big for me taste .
Can you have tabs on Windows explorer ?
The new interface and dark theme looks really nice , kudos to Microsoft , but damn windows explorer (Microsoft's version of finder ) is a mess in my opinion , it looks straight out of Windows , Microsoft just made it look flatter but not really , those icons look so outdated and there's just so much going on so many options , is there a way to get a replacement app for it ?
Also while the new interface looks really good it feels at times like two OS glued together , windows explorer (again , sorry I just really hate it ) if you try to change more than the first couple of settings you're thrown again to a windows XP sort of OS, deleting an app for example looks quite terrible .
Is there really no option to completely turn off the display? :/ 0% brightness is just the screen really dim but still on.
Can you make the notifications actually show up , because they just show up on the notification center but I never see an animation with them running across the street (aside from things like "installing " WhatsApp , telegram )
Is it possible to control the apps that automatically start once I start the computer ? Aka something like signing on apps (sorry that's the rough translation I use my computer in German ) , Everytime I started the laptop I had to wait quite a bit of time for it to become responsive since it was loading so many apps and some of them were apparently impossible to disable , why do I need to check for nvidia drivers every single time I turn on the computer ? Or Intel's fast storage app?!!
Is windows defender really safe ? An antivirus is not really necessary unless you're downloading shady apps / pirate apps ,streaming pirate films/porn right ?
How can I pin the recycle bin to the taskbar ? I don't like icons on my desktop.
Can you make the dock bigger ? I use 225% scaling so my dock gets reduced a bit too much for my taste and if I use 250% scaling everything on the os looks too big for me taste .
Can you have tabs on Windows explorer ?