Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
JakenVeina@midwest.social 4 hours ago
because Microsoft created the new taskbar from the ground up and didn’t use the old code from Windows 10.
Which excuses nothing. You CHOSE to dump and rewrite existing, functional code, before its replacement was fully realized. You intentionally degraded your product, based on the calculation that the portion of users who don’t care would be far greater than the portion who do.
The_Grinch@hexbear.net 3 hours ago
And somehow just about every one of the hundreds of linux desktop environments you can choose from features a rock solid, fully customizable taskbar(s) which can be put wherever you want. Even in gnome which doesn’t allow you to move the taskbar by default, you can still move it with an extension and it doesn’t break anything.
Just one example, in XFCE you can put a taskbar of literally any size literally anywhere. Very useful if you have a broken corner of your screen, you can throw a taskbar there and windows will dodge it. You can even create a 1px wide taskbar right down the center of your monitor, splitting it into two spaces. All of this is completely seamless, behaves exactly how you would expect, and rock solid.
So WTF is microsoft doing exactly?