Seems like a lot of stuff like that though. At this point I only use windows to play games and I want to interact with the OS as little as possible, so I don’t understand why I would want an updated UI with more ads and Microsoft integrations when it does nothing to improve what I actually use it for.
Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11
gveltaine@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Windows 11 has one specific limiting feature that drives me bonkers and it’s not being able to click the clock in the bottom right on a secondary monitor to pull up a calendar. Windows 10 has this, why remove it?
It’s a miniscule but good feature
Asifall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Are you sure? Singing in with an online Microsoft account improves your experience*
*it allows us to collect data on you
puck2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Kind of forgot what an OS is… Should fade into the background (but how do you make money with that???)
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
At launch you couldn’t even have that clock on the second screen, they added it back partially in an update, non-clickable.
And win11 is filled with this sort of thing. It’s the worst update windows ever got, except maybe for winMe - which I don’t recall that well.
gveltaine@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
VISTA comes to mind when i was getting more into computers. I missed XP so bad. Then 7 came out and it was great!
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
half of what made 7 great was first added as an update on vista but people were already burned from it and unwilling to give vista another try.
imaBEES@lemmy.world 8 months ago
From a technical perspective, they didn’t remove it or any of the other missing features from the taskbar since the win11 taskbar was built from scratch without any of the old code for 10. For whatever reason, that feature wasn’t prioritized in the new taskbar build so it wasn’t built yet, or they didn’t want to add it.
I still think their decision to not allow the new taskbar to be placed on the sides or top is really stupid though, as someone with a 32:9 monitor, I’d much rather use some of my horizontal space for taskbar rather than limited vertical space.
arin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m still waiting for the uncombined icons on taskbar
pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Small icons, show title, never combine.
Still waiting on the release that contains this.
gveltaine@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
YES PLEASE
civylw@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think they just released that…
arin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I updated but don’t see it in my w11 taskbar options
puck2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Me neither
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
My minor but really irritating gripe is the unmovable taskbar (which I’m not sure if this has changed or not), I’ve been a top taskbar person since xp and it doesn’t make sense to me to remove a feature like that. Apparently there are Reg hacks or third party tools to do what I want but I really shouldn’t have to resort to that Imo.
FluffyHulk@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I have tried a reg hack, which worked pretty well, but it kept resetting after every update. And changing the registries I did (don’t recall which I changed or if they still work.) also came with some annoying issues, like window preview still show on top of taskbar (so outside of your screen) among other thing.
I also preferred to have a smaller taskbar which is also no longer possible.
So I have given up and resorted to a bottom taskbar on autohide. But even that has some wonky interactions, with for example windows + tab, where there is a nice shade behind your different virtual desktops, but it stops at the original location of the taskbar.
ladicius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The taskbar nailed immovable to the bottom is some impressively dumb bullshit. That limitation is so unnecessary and useless I can only chalk it up to brutal idiocy on the product managers side.
gveltaine@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I didn’t even realize this. What in the backwards UI design is this?
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
This was linked as an answer in an Microsoft answers thread with this being the thread in question. Honestly I have no idea why it was removed, and I’m pretty simple with a top taskbar. I know a few people who use side taskbars pretty heavily.
mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 8 months ago
This is my biggest gripe with W11 as well. I used to use that all the time to check what day any given date is.
Ragerist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It seems like they are going out of their way to remove good features. Like they removed the option to right click the taskbar and open task manager. They since added it back, but only because of user demand.
They have removed quick access to disabling the network, seeing and changing ip settings.
I can’t remember all the annoying issues, but there’s a lot.
I hate that it has become a general thing to ruin user experience and possibilities of customization. Google is doing the same with android.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
The volume mixer is also only now coming back.