welp, work machine now has windows 11 (mandatory upgrade was tomorrow night but i thought it’d be better to at least have some control over the timer)
i think it’s still going out to grab additional updates because it’s running very slowly, but it makes an even worse impression when the widget pane i don’t want spends a while on the responsive web design placeholder
(turned off the widget pane after that)
and then task manager crashed when trying to see what was making it run slowly
and all my criticisms of this are still there (granted, this is 22H2).
a lot of my cheese has been moved.
the taskbar does not belong on the bottom of the screen - it’s wasted space on an ultrawide, and with how often i’m hopping on to servers, having the local one be on the side was an easy way to tell them apart.
i had the use full screen start option on in win10, and all those apps placed on a grid to spatially locate them? unceremoniously dumped into a folder.
not even alphabetized
windows 11 complaining after 10 mins of using it
oh, did you like having tab titles in task manager? too bad! all we have now is labels and hamburger menu. (i do not know if the hamburger menu choice persists. i’m going to be more irritated if it doesn’t)
and it still feels like a baby toy version from oversimplification
when i right click a file, i like nice clear unambiguous text rather than just an icon
right click the taskbar and there’s just taskbar settings/task manager
windows 11 complaining after 10 mins of using it
is it the worst version of windows i’ve ever used? no. i liked windows 8.0 more than most people but i’ve always got incredibly annoyed any time i need to RDP into a windows server 2012 (not R2) server because hot corners as the only way to interact with a server graphically are such a fundamentally bad idea that it’s incredible that happened
but i’m struggling to understand why anyone that considers themselves a power user would find this better
re: windows 11 complaining after 10 mins of using it
@Felthry @lioness yeah, on 8.0 and windows server 2012 (not r2), the non-keyboard way to open the start screen was to fling your mouse to the bottom left - or either right corner to open the charms menu and then reposition the mouse to the start button that popped up there
this is fine if you can take advantage of fitts' law (that the screen edges are effectively infinite), and falls apart immediately otherwise
re: windows 11 complaining after 10 mins of using it
@Felthry @lioness (e.g. a windowed remote desktop session to a server, or some multi monitor setups)
windows 8.1/server 2012 r2 put the start button back on the taskbar, making it a lot less aggravating to work with (for the people who hadn't installed start8)
we still use hot corners in some form today; mousing to the bottom left of our macbook will instantly lock the screen
just now they're optional
re: windows 11 complaining after 10 mins of using it
@Felthry @Dex someone at microsoft had the terrible idea of making menus & other UI elements invisible until you push your mouse into a particular corner of the screen. different corners give you different menus & you just gotta know where each thing is.