I used Windows server 2022 for first time today on a vps. It's what I imagine we all want windows to be. Just simple Windows 10ish ui without all the fluff. I imagine its very stable too given its for servers. Reminds me of Windows 2000 I ran on my Pentium 2. Does anyone just use Windows sever 2022 on their desktop? Why not?
Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
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Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#32I used Windows server 2022 for first time today on a vps. It's what I imagine we all want windows to be. Just simple Windows 10ish ui without all the fluff. I imagine its very stable too given its for servers. Reminds me of Windows 2000 I ran on my Pentium 2. Does anyone just use Windows sever 2022 on their desktop? Why not?
> Just simple Windows 10ish ui without all the fluff.
Windows 10 UI is far more confusing than Windows 7, with the new and old configuration dialogs.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#33Amazing, only 2 years to implement a feature you had already. What was so problematic about the Windows 10 taskbar that they had to completely scrap it and start from zero??
Slow clap for windows 11 taskbar!
Now…. When will they bring back the ability to park your taskbar vertically on the left hand side? Another 2 years?
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#34YES! Thank you for focusing on productivity instead of copying Apple's obsolete UI.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#35Still no vertical taskbar. Horizontal is a waste of precious screen estate.
Vertical has always been much wider than the horizontal layout is tall, at least when using the small taskbar icons setting. However the third-party utility 7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows narrower vertical taskbars, which actually makes the vertical orientation ideal if placed on the left-hand side (the least interacted with edge of a desktop, ie: less likely to be accidentally interacted with).
You can make it narrow enough to only just fit the date at the bottom, without third-party utilities, which seems small enough.
Also, there's typically plenty of spare width and not much spare height, due to modern aspect ratios, so it's a win, anyway.
Also also, if you do the maths, the typical vertical taskbar can be significantly thicker and use no more screen area.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#36I used Windows server 2022 for first time today on a vps. It's what I imagine we all want windows to be. Just simple Windows 10ish ui without all the fluff. I imagine its very stable too given its for servers. Reminds me of Windows 2000 I ran on my Pentium 2. Does anyone just use Windows sever 2022 on their desktop? Why not?
> Just simple Windows 10ish ui without all the fluff. Windows 10 UI is far more confusing than Windows 7, with the new and old configuration dialogs.
> Windows 10 UI is far more confusing than Windows 7
I don't care much, I just want good old Windows I am familiar with. For any but a very non-complex system, a revamped UI always feeld more confusing if you are an experienced user already.
> with the new and old configuration dialogs.
I just love the old and dread the day they will be removed.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#37Never Combine and Only Combine when Full. Two missing features that were literally keeping me from upgrading to 11.
I hope "Use small taskbar buttons" is back too. The default taskbar takes too much vertical space.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#38I hope they are also going to add support for left/top alignment of the icons (the classic way), for removal of left&right margins in centered alignment (Mac way) so places to the left and right of the icons would be free screen space rather than empty panel area, good support for horizontal panel placing, turn system icons (unmount device, network indicators, sound volume&output control, keyboard layout indicator, clock and calemdar etc) into first-class panel icons rather than tray icons (they just look ugly in case of horizontal panel placement).
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#39Hopefully they'll also bring back the ability to middle click on tray icons that they apparently silently broke/removed recently when they released the so called Windows 11 Moment 2 update with these new taskbar and tray area "improvements", even though they do not acknowledge it when reporting it on the feedback hub, their github issue trackers, their twitter, etc.
Re: Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons
#40Amazing, only 2 years to implement a feature you had already. What was so problematic about the Windows 10 taskbar that they had to completely scrap it and start from zero??
Slow clap for windows 11 taskbar! Now…. When will they bring back the ability to park your taskbar vertically on the left hand side? Another 2 years?
Hold off Microsoft! I got my girlfriend to try Linux because she like the bar on the side.