• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    Beloved feature is only actually utilised by 5% of your users?

    I mean, there is a pretty strong argument that if 95% of users don’t use a function, then it is not actually beloved and just more of a niche thing that the vast majority don’t care about.

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      13 hours ago

      The core design philology of windows is cobbling together thousands of niche use case features and set ups that have accumulated from their all their previous versions. That’s why it’s so janky.

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      15 hours ago

      Move it out of core and into an optional extention.

      Of course if the code base respected user’s software freedom then others can maintain in your place.

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        15 hours ago

        Yeah sure I’m not arguing it should be culled, just that calling a feature untouched by the vast majority of users beloved is incorrect.

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      16 hours ago

      That 5% is 5% of the users who don’t turn the telemetry off.

      And if use of that feature is strongly correlated with the type of person who also turns off telemetry…

      – Frost

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        15 hours ago

        That would just make it 5% of a vast majority, nearing 100%, so still only a small amount of users.

        I get what you’re saying, but when something is only used by the small demographic that is “power users”, it is not a beloved feature of the userbase as a whole.

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        That 5% is 5% of the users who don’t turn the telemetry off.

        So 5% of 99%. Still niche.