The taskbar itself is what is being referred to, I believe. Having the taskbar mounted to one side of the screen allows for a bit more vertical space to be used by apps, which is pretty nice on aspect ratios that limit vertical space, i.e. 16:9. It’s the way I currently run my taskbar and I can’t really imagine having to use it locked to the bottom of the screen.
I think they want a vertical bar versus horizontal, I prefer this setup for laptops too, e.g. I have the dock on macOS on the left and Ubuntu/Gnome it is the default. It makes a huge difference when vertical screen estate is at a premium, as is the case with many laptops.
I would too but mac does it in a pretty annoying way compared to say ubuntu unity.
With multiple monitors, it snaps to the side most one you have plugged in regardless of your primary screen.
I get there's a lot of dragging and dropping involved with the bar, but in Unity it let you set a threshold for mouse speed to limit you going to another monitor.
Just let me put it on the side and do that if I'm dragging something, it's not too difficult.
They redesigned the app store, the settings, the file manager, added android emulation and changed the update cycle. it's also snappy with more agressive caching from what i heard. the search was also overhauled to be faster and more relevant
i would have loved for them to include more privacy and security features instead of the widgets panel for instance (which only allows microsoft services anyways so far) but it still looks like a decent release
Did they actually redesign it this time, or just redesigned - again - the "most common" options and fall back to the old version, old version+2, old version +4 etc for any of the more detailed panes....
The Widgets Panel seems like the place that Live Tiles have gone to die. Outside of the "new AI widgets" they keep trying to hype the rest of the apps that show up there are just Live Tiles apps showing their old Live Tiles in new slightly more rounded boxes.
I’d say the first two things you listed fall under “slight refresh to the desktop environment”, but, yea… forgot about the Android emulation. That’s pretty cool. And the last couple of things you mentioned are certainly welcome improvements.
Tencent have been reducing their gaming revenue footprints down to single digit %. IMO giant behemoth for the like of BATTMD will manage since they have the money to spare. It will hurt. but in the long run it won't be a big deal.
> Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf argued in the chapter "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy" that the Germans needed Lebensraum in the East and described it as a "historic destiny" which would properly nurture the future generations of Germans
> [...] was to be carried out through a rapidly enforced process of Gleichschaltung (synchronization). The ultimate intent of this was to eradicate all traces of national rather than racial consciousness, although their native languages were to remain in existence
> [...] After Germany had acquired her Lebensraum, she now needed to populate these lands according to Nazi ideology and racial principles
I don't get why this is downvoted, because it succinctly summarizes what the Nazis did (having studied part of the phenomenon - Gleichschaltung - in depth).
It's a tendentious, provocative and clichéd claim followed by a couple of Wikipedia quotes. There are many valid criticisms of Chinese actions and objectives in Tibet, but describing it as "exactly the same" as the Nazi approach to lebensraum which was most notable for involving the systematic extermination of the residents is insulting to the intelligence of the average HN reader as well as being likely to attract the ire of Chinese people participating on these forums.
> Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins. Completely shovel up the roots of “two-faced people,” dig them out, and vow to fight these two-faced people until the end.
Guess who said this? The Chinese official for religious affairs, on his weibo page. They aren't stupid. You don't need guns and executions for extermination of a minority, you can force resettle them across the country until nothing of their culture and little of their gens is left
Here is a few statistics:
> Since 2017, Chinese authorities have used various pretexts to damage or destroy two-thirds of Xinjiang’s mosques; about half of those have been demolished outright
> In 2017, according to official statistics, arrests in Xinjiang accounted for nearly 21 percent of all arrests in China, despite people in Xinjiang making up only 1.5 percent of the total population
I didn't say the Chinese government was nice, I said it was tendentious, provocative and clichéd to describe its forced assimilation policy as "exactly the same" as the Nazis' approach which involved extermination camps and assumption that the vast majority of Slavs were untermenschen unworthy of being assimilated
The fact your attempt to justify the original comment involves citing some stats related to "counter terrorism" brutality and forced "reeducation" in another region which also does not remotely resemble the Nazi approach to conquest of the East tends to underline this point...
