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I would've switched to W11 if not for the godawful new taskbar which doesn't have a list of drives and locations, aka you can't pin "this computer" and its children on the taskbar as a clickable list.

Why, oh why would they do a version bump and then REMOVE features.

Everything gets enshittified.

Why remove such a good feature? To look more like Apple does? Fail fail fail Microsoft. Now Goliath imitates David.

Windows' UX was always way better than any other OS'. Why copy a worse product and get rid of decades of progress smh

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Explorer? Or the actual task-bar? Either way, they're both a regression in Windows 11.

I don't really have a problem with Windows, and use it at work every day, but at home, I dumped it a decade ago in favour of Fedora/KDE, and never looked back. In fact I discovered a few weeks back that I could still boot my old Windows install, and updated it to 11, and hence my leading comment.

I've been waiting 2 years for them to correct that, and I'm surprised it didn't happen right away. It seemed like such a widely-hated feature would warrant a windows 8 -> 8.1 level UX adjustment

I haven’t tried it, but perhaps Start11 would solve your problems…

https://www.stardock.com/products/start11

They've been removing (or just moving up the license chain) features since XP.

Improvise, adapt, overcome.

Don't get ossified in your current way of doing things.

Why should I have to adapt to UI changes for the sake of UI changes?

Because there is a cost in not moving to a supported platform. Windows 11 has various improvements and some inconveniences.

Of course, you have the option of remaining on Windows 10 since possibly for you that menu is much more important than the rest. I assume Linux/Mac are not options because the UI changes they bring are massive compared to Windows 10 -> Windows 11 and you mentioned that you don't want to adapt to UI changes.

But if Linux/Mac are options, it means that the real problem is not that the UI changed, but that you were not asked and didn't gave your consent to the change. So basically that you feel offended by Microsoft changing the UI without your approval.

Serious question. Other than continued security updates, what's something you consider better about Windows 11? Honestly, I'm not sure of any feature that has improved since Windows 7.

It's not that I can not adopt to UI changes, for example, when I context switch to OSX. The problem is that the UI changed so some UI designers could generate career bullet points. And in doing so are forcing billions of people to have to adopt to something that didn't need fixing in the first place.

Snap Layouts is a huge Windows 11 feature for me, I use it all the time since I have multiple monitors and many windows open.

But it's not all positive, I'm annoyed by the removal of the month calendar when you click on the date.

> The problem is that the UI changed so some UI designers could generate career bullet points.

Even if true, it doesn't change the fact that Windows 10 will soon not be supported anymore.

As they say, the only constant is change.

Windows 10 becoming unsupported doesn't change by original complaint about UI changing for changes sake.

> Why remove such a good feature? To look more like Apple does? Fail fail fail Microsoft

Imitating Apple, not understanding why Apple does some of these things (not that they're always right eh, far from it), thus fumbling really badly.

My Apple Fan Card is long expired, I'm not even paying my dues (just a phone in the last 3 years) but Jobs was absolutely right already back in 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOzGI4MqSU

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