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When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 60 points 2 days ago

I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don't even know where to start.

I know it's the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.

Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.

The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it's all small icons and you can't have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.

I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare "recall" feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.

I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.

With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it's become such a powerful OS.

I've never been happier!

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.

So change it, that's a setting that's been there since day one on W11 to move the Start menu and taskbar stuff back to the left corner.

The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it’s all small icons and you can’t have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.

The tiles were one of the biggest things people complained about on Windows 8 and 10 compared to previous versions. The Windows 11 Start Menu works more like previous versions in this regard, because that's something people were VERY vocal about wanting back.

[-] cyborganism@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

And I really don't get it.

People were used to the multi-level app menu in Windows 7 and before. The tiled menu might have been too much of a change. But it made sense. Less frequently used applications could have smaller icons and more commonly used one have bigger icons so they're easier to find and click. It was great ergonomically speaking.

The people were wrong! lol

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