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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 39 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge

It was working fine in windows 95. Suddenly all programmers became incompetent and can't handle something like that?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This makes no sense to me what so ever. Why do any apps care about where the taskbar is? How's it any different when a window isn't maximised and the user resizes it? Either I'm seriously misunderstanding this or it's a completely made up excuse.

I'd rather they just say "we completely rewrote the taskbar, but we know that less than 0.01% of users move their taskbar so we didn't prioritize it".

To me the bigger issue with the taskbar is that you can't make it compact. Instead it has to be a big chunky mess.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

All programmers by microsoft. They cant code anymore