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It’s a shame. I really love Windows 10. It’s fast and the UI’s ergonomy is near perfect.

On my work laptop we recently had to switch to Windows 11 and it’s a fucking pain to use. You have to jump through so many hoops and do extra clicks to do what you want. And the start menu has become completely useless. And I hate the gaps and rounded corners everywhere. And that’s just on the surface. Performance is piss poor and you have all that crap spying on you to collect your usage data.

The day Windows 10 becomes unsupported is the day I go 100% Linux.

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deweydecibel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Forced to use it at work, too, and only by the grace of being in the IT department do I have the ability to make it less shitty.

There’s registry entries to restore the full context menu, and PowerToys Run has effectively become my defacto start menu, though obviously you need to use the keyboard so it’s not a perfect UI replacement. Meanwhile for searching, I’ve got Everything running and set global keyboard shortcuts to it. It makes 11 more tolerable.

Unfortunately I’ve yet to find a way to get some damn 90° angles back. I can not wait for a few years down the line when we finally swing away from this Apple-chasing “bubbles with an inch between them on a white/black field” design aesthetic. I’m tired of everything looking like a toy.

And not just a toy, the same toy. It’s seriously Corporate Memphis levels of lifeless, forced design with not character, creativity, or ingenuity.

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- acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Forced to use it at work, too, and only by the grace of being in the IT department do I have the ability to make it less shitty.
  
  I’m a user 🤮 and the IT on my Japanese employer is run by Mordac the Information Preventer. FML.
  
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- kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  TIL about PowerToys Run. That’s a game changer for me. Thanks!
  
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ballskicker@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This has been exactly my stance ans well apart from ever having used Win11. Never did and never plan to, downloaded Mint a few months ago to start getting familiar with it. Turns out I’m not real great at technical stuff but I’m getting there. Dual monitors was kind of a booger and now I’m trying to figure out how to install some games since Bottles is being a real wiener about Battle.Net. I’m glad there’s so many resources and forums out there but I still hope some version of Linux gets dumbed down a little more before Win10 sunsets to make the transition easier for us blue collar folk

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- kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I had problem with bottles and battle.net too. It went flawless year ago, then I eent to play other games and when I finally wanted to play Diablo 2 again, battle.net kept crashing all the time. I solved it by running that bottle in wine-ge. Easier way to get it (and manage such prefixes) is ProtonUp-qt that is also on flathub.
  
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- BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For games, running stuff through Steam makes things much easier, as it configures Proton for you automatically.
  
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  - ballskicker@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Steam’s been fantastic! Problem for me is that some of the battle.net games aren’t on there. If there’s a way to download those somewhere and run them through Steam that’d be incredible. I didn’t even think to consider searching around for that possibility. I’ve seen people run Diablo 4 on their Decks so it’s clearly possible, I’m just still learning how to troubleshoot Linux and I’m trying to be extra careful since their OS doesn’t have much in the way of guardrails to prevent dummies from nuking themselves
    
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    BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I will say I have personally found Blizzard games tend to run poorly on Linux. It has mostly lead to me playing less Blizzard games.
    
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Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Windows 10 already had telemetry (what you call spying) and what it didn’t have in the past got patched in. So when it comes to that both Windows 10 and 11 are the same.

Performance is totally fine for me on Windows 11, but the new right click context menu sucks.

Overall there’s really not much difference between the two otherwise.

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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  MS even backported spying to Win7
  
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BumbleBeeButt@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been using Manjaro on an old modded chromebook. Windows is not gonna be on my next machine build.

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dditty@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think you can use a third-party tool to remove rounded corners

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