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-3 points

3 months ago

I like the Phone Companion bar too. The folder grid is reminiscent of Windows 8 and is a nod to iOS… I guess haters gonna hate, but this seems like a nice improvement.

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snooggums@midwest.social

5 points

3 months ago

I’ll be over here hating then.

This is the Window 8 menu bullshit all over again.

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-2 points

3 months ago

I genuinely don’t understand what more people could want in a start menu, just needlessly against all forward momentum and change?

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snooggums@midwest.social

3 points

3 months ago

Just against pointless change.

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-1 points

3 months ago

You can see your phones status and recent messages from the start menu now! More start menu icons are exposed in the space they’ve added an organization mechanism. I think the point is to improve its usefulness

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snooggums@midwest.social

2 points

3 months ago

My personal phone is not linked to my computer. My work computer will never be linked to my work computer because I don’t have a work provided mobile phone. I do expect this new menu to nag the shit out of me to link a phone based on prior Windows ‘features’.

I don’t use windows messages.

I see fewer icons in the preview image than I see on the start menu now.

This is far less useful than the existing menu, which is less useful than the windows 7 menu. This is like how they hid half the things I used on the right click menu under the ‘show more’ option.

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-1 points

3 months ago

Pretty sure the bar goes away when you don’t use Phone Link! I use Phone Link, as you should too assuming you own a phone. I like it because that + the iCloud app basically brings feature parity to my Macs built-in Phone integrations. The simping over Windows is bizarre, it’s like you guys are pissed that Windows 2000 isn’t still supported, come join us in the 21st century please. “Any feature I don’t personally use is pointless and bloat” is a childs argument.

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