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the centered taskbar
As an ultrawide monitor user, I love the centered Taskbar. I only use Windows for gaming, but I couldn't use it for work if I didn't have the task bar centered.
But it's not even that I don't like windows 11... I genuinely don't care. Windows 10 works, a _lot_ of my apps are in the browser or in a browser-ish environment anyway (electron). There are no new exciting features in the desktop space? Thinking about it, I have a mac at work and I don't care about the OS updates either way. It's all incremental now.
For a while the mobile OS were exciting but it's getting boring as well.
Windows 11 is kind of like Metaverse. Nobody wants this except Microsoft deluded executives. Why couldn't they keep improving the Windows 10 and listen to what people actually want?
What's wrong with Windows 11?
Context menus are a mess, hiding most options multiple levels deep when there's plenty of space.
Every quarter they get more intrusive trying to get you to click on the wrong button that will change your browser and default apps, and they use every antipattern short of moving the window under your cursor to try to convince you not to change away from their defaults. Yes, Win10 had a "are you sure you don't want Edge" popup but Win11 is far worse.
It's also harder than ever (maybe impossible now?) to create a local user account.
There must be a word for people who complain relentlessly about a brand or company but keep going back to it anyway.
Linux is fine if you're a developer, but if you're a gamer or artist that needs real GPUs then you're stuck on Windows.
I will be avoiding Windows 11 for as long as possible. From my understanding, the issue is that you can only install Windows 11 on computers with a TPM, which they then plan to use to shove DRM down your throat. No thank you. I should not have to "cam" my own computer, because my own computer wont allow me to capture whats visible on the screen. Fuck that.
> https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/install-microso...
Don't know if this works for bare metal.
There must be a word for people who complain relentlessly about a brand or company but keep going back to it anyway.
This is the difference between "consumer" and "customer".
A customer has control over their money. They make choices that benefit themselves and producers must compete with one another for their money.
A consumer is just somebody whose job is to not only eat the shit shoveled at them, but work their ass off and live in debt for the joy of eating it.
But, don't worry, the government will step in and give you "consumer rights" and protect you. Lol.
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What's wrong with Windows 11?
The main question is whats the benefit of windows 11 over windows 10? I only see disadvantage where we need to have TPM so we can accept their DRM in future, or useless taskbar where dragging and dropping doesn't work etc. Not to mention that additional bloats that will be added in windows 10. Windows Xp could run in 128MB and that was perfectly fine for people like me. But now even 4gigs is not sufficient to run pc…
So I'm sure that's a stumbling block for a lot of people whose machines are technically capable of upgrading.
There must be a word for people who complain relentlessly about a brand or company but keep going back to it anyway.
People with absolutely no other option. Linux is fine if you're a developer, but if you're a gamer or artist that needs real GPUs then you're stuck on Windows.
Windows 11 is kind of like Metaverse. Nobody wants this except Microsoft deluded executives. Why couldn't they keep improving the Windows 10 and listen to what people actually want?
And yes, many companies definitely want this. Some anti-cheat solutions have already jumped on the remote attestation bandwagon and make use of the TPM when running on Windows 11, with Windows 10 being temporarily exempt from the requirement (not unlike what happened with SafetyNet and the "basic" attestation fallback/loophole). It's only a matter of time until Windows 10 is left behind and everything starts requiring remote attestation. After all the McDonald's Android app requires SafetyNet, so why shouldn't also make sure you are not having too much fun with it?