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  • There is a trend line of the amount of shit you need to do to get linux to do things you want.
    There is a trend line of the amount of shit you need to do to stop windows from doing things you don't want.

    Those two lines have crossed quite a while ago.

  • It's true. Windows 11 looks too different for many people, especially in Enterprise and Small Business. People know the Windows 7/10 look and layout and don't want to learn something new.

    Also, when we rolled out 10 in the Enterprise we had our fair share of issues which were eventually worked out over time. Now 10 is finally stable, no one wants to change it again.

    Especially in a Manufacturing business where every second counts and any delays cost money, you don't have time for Windows issues.

    Microsoft should make Windows 10 a "Pro" OS for Enterprise and support it forever, and make Windows 11 the "Home" OS for families to use at home. After all they only did it to complete with MacOS, which is predominantly used by home users and doesn't feature massively in Enterprise

  • I don't even understand why Windows 11 exists. I thought Windows 10 was meant to be the last version and then it was continually upgraded. They never add any particularly good new features, so I'm happy with security updates and staying behind a few months on feature updates to avoid being a beta tester.

    Oh, and Windows 11 removed the ability to put the taskbar on the left or right, and I would have thought that perhaps teams of engineers and designers paid 100k+ in a trillion dollar company would be able to make that a reality, regardless of whether or not it's only 1% of users (millions of people) that use that feature. I heard the right click menus have been fucked up by some idiot as well, and the sad thing is they probably spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make them that way, after many many depressing meetings and someone had to task it all out in Azure, whilst gradually losing the will to live, just to eventually make an already existent feature worse. Nice job Microsoft.

    I'm happy to wait until Windows 11 is at least at feature parity with Windows 10 and thoroughly tested before I "upgrade". I suspect some things got better, but it isn't worth it.

    • I upgraded to windows 11 at the urging of security updates and such.

      They really took away a bunch of features that make it difficult, for me as someone with a disability, to use the computer comfortably. I have made complaints about the problem and have basically received only "thank you for your feedback".

      I have a loss of mobility in my hands and wrists as well as arthritis, so sometimes I have difficulty using the mouse and clicking around on the screen.

      They the slide bars on the side of the file explorer and the web browsers (at least what I've noticed so far) so tiny and hard to click for me since I don't have as much as accuracy as normal users. I have to very carefully focus and make sure I click properly or I can't slide the bar. I attempted to resize this through some settings but it ends up making the web browser slide bars too big and barely makes a difference for the file explorer.

      Then in addition to that, the design of the task bar at the bottom where it's centered in the screen is extremely frustrating for me to use. I am constantly misclicking items there as it was and then they added a bunch that I didn't want. I spent probably an hour resizing it and removing unnecessary items there.

      And while it doesn't relate to my disability, I didn't like the little dots they used to indicate an open program, I preferred the outline. Which you can change but it wasn't very intuitive, I had to figure it out through googling!

    • I feel like Windows always grabs ui ideas from the Linux desktops. Well, Windows 11 is Windows but designed by Gnome.

  • Putting the obvious privacy issues aside (which also exist in Windows 10), my friends/family who use Windows actually enjoy Windows 11. Most people don't care about privacy, they enjoy running the most recent windows edition whatever that is.

    The problem is that Windows 11 introduced some really arbitrary hardware requirements and people who actually want to upgrade don't have the tech knowledge to bypass them. These sites think people hate windows 11 but they're just too poor to upgrade.

    • It has definitely come with a significant roadblock compared to the ease with which you could move from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10. It is a whole lot less straightforward a proposition this time around.

  • This happens over and over again with Windows so I don't really take any of these articles seriously. People will migrate to either 11 or whatever comes next. All the kicking and screaming in the world won't be able to stop them. How long are tech folks going to repeat this cycle?

    • I very recently installed Linux on one of my daily drivers. Been slowly switching away from windows as they have gotten more and more anti-user.

  • When I got my new laptop I spent a full hour just trying to delete edge. It's still there, but I think I managed to disable it's auto update.

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