This almost makes me want to move my panel in Plasma just because I can.
Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft
Submitted 2 months ago by Stupendous@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/19/why-you-cant-move-windows-11-taskbar-like-windows-10/
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xeekei@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 months ago
My Plasma Panel is on the top and I wouldn’t want it anywhere else.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If it takes so much effort to move the taskbar, why did it need to be fully rewritten in react native when everything worked before?
BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Windows 11 is a bloated disaster. I urge everyone to switch to Linux or one of the BSDs.
Also switch away from Microsoft Office and use LibreOffice.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Using BSDs is for Unix fetishists, honestly. I’ve been such. It’s very pleasant to use FreeBSD on supported configuration, or OpenBSD on supported configuration and when you don’t need anything impossible (like Wine).
But when you are a normal person who just wants to do normal things and live, Linux is more likely to be the thing, and Fedora will do.
In practice. In theory you might think you’d like GuixSD or NixOS, but in practice you won’t spend the time on setting them up. Or Slackware, but it’s even more bother. Or Arch, but it’s too messy, stuff breaks and it’s normal. You either want experience similar to BSDs or lack of bother similar to BSDs. For the former, there are plenty of distributions with ideology to spend days on setting up. For the latter, just install Fedora.
I’m using Void because that’s what I installed the last time and forgot. But if I were choosing now, I’d probably, yes, just install Fedora.
And it’s a shame they are slowly killing Windows. It could have been a nice desktop OS. There’s some cultural similarity to Amiga that isn’t felt under Unix-likes. And NT is interesting to read about.
I hope we’ll have more pluralism in future. On the humus of today’s tech.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
No exaggeration, this was my breaking point for switching to linux exclusively.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s not even unreasonable. If this is the kind of incompetence guides something as simple as the task bar, I don’t want to think about how fucked the rest of the code is.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Join team Linux!
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It really seems like Windows really needs KDE to come back to the platform…
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Jokes on them I decided to give macOS a shake when it was time for a new laptop.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People are fleeing into Linux & MacOS in droves. If this trend holds, Ms will lose majority in ~8 years.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I sourced a new desktop to move my plex server to once I get some new drives to put them in the proper format. I’ll be giving it to Microsoft from both ends ;)
stephen01king@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Not gonna happen in some industry where you get zero application support for Linux or MacOS.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
My screen is 2160px tall and 3840 pixels wide. If it’s at the bottom, I waste nearly 1.8 times the number of pixels.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New taskbar from ground up. And despite all the requests to bring the feature back, their reasoning amounts to “we’re too lazy”
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hey copilot, code me a new start menu that restores classic functionality.
Copilot: “I can’t do that, Dave.”
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re absolutely right, the current start bar I coded is not fully featured…
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Is this what hearing Vogon Poetry is like?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Imagine letting your computer decide how you’re gonna use it 😖
NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
*letting a corporation decide how you’re gonna use your computer
reddig33@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is the explanation, “Because Windows 11 is shitty”?
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I honestly just want my old right mouse click back.
PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Easily sorted and the old right-click menu can be reinstated along with a whole loads of other tweaks -
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“People find the right-click menu overwhelming, so we’ll reduce it from 23 options to 19 options. That’ll make it less confusing and won’t annoy the people who now need an extra click for basic functionality “
bike_and_cargo@feddit.org 2 months ago
Its just a registry entry that you have to change.
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It is a registry key that you can add to return it to normal. If you want I can find it for you!
Broken@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Why can’t they just ask copilot to program that for them?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s funny here is that in Microsoft’s Feedback Hub, the feedback related to “taskbar”, with the highest number of upvotes, is the one that asks the company to “Bring back the ability to move the taskbar to the top and sides if the screen on Windows 11”. We are not sure which data Microsoft used to get to such a conclusion…
The one they get from their
spywaretelemetry, probably.dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The data shows everyone uses their Windows 11 taskbar at the bottom of the screen. You can’t argue with that.
Aganim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Skewed telemetry probably, as most users that are aware you can move the taskbar are also aware you can just disable the phone home crap and will therefore not show up in the statistics.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Most windows products get slightly shittier with each new release.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I miss the old days, when the opposite seemed true about every other major release, though the early bars were low so that was straight progress for 1.0 through 95.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
My screen is wider than it is tall. I have more horizontal screen real estate than vertical, why are you forcing me to waste vertical space? I wanna move it to the left again…
User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You can move taskbar to any side in Windows 98 (or earlier), but this abomination can’t, that speaks volume. BTW older windows also had crazy granular theme customization, no more, that’s apparently nuclear science or smth.
deepsiix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been using ExplorerPatcher to correct this and it works pretty well.
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m using Linux Mint to correct this and it works even better
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah I’m using startallback and it just works.
Except for the notification bar, which shows up on the wrong screen, but i don’t much care about that.
ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For anyone interested, Google the app called WindHawk. It makes it extremely possible to push the taskbar up.
MuttMutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Simple solution is to switch to Linux. Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS had worked great for me so far.
If you absolutely can’t or won’t switch look at openshell open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because microsoft sucks at ux
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s disappointing; I always thought the one thing they got right was the 98/XP interface that Cinnamon copied.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just because they suck at it now doesn’t mean they always have
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess the AI writing windows 11 code keeps getting the taskbar wrong.
Mio@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Notably, Windows 10 could do the same thing without any visible issues. And that’s probably because Windows 10 was a much lighter OS than Windows 11.
There is nothing wrong with being lightweight.
Maybe, just maybe, making the startmenu in React is not the best idea.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You also can’t add folders as toolbars anymore.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But widgets!!!
/s
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They just don’t want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you’d be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They’ll only allow those generated using Copilot.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
“Copilot, change the wallpaper to a DSC20260512.JPG.”
“I’m sorry, you can only change the wallpaper to images generated by Copilot!”
“Ok, change the wallpaper to a picture of my Daughter Graduating.”
“Sure! Here’s a picture of a young woman graduating set to your wallpaper.”
“That isn’t my daughter, my daughter isn’t a blonde white girl with massive tits, please change back to my previous wallpaper.”
“Sure, here’s a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
“My last wallpaper was a photo I took of The Flying Scotsman, also that picture of a Scottish glen has an offensive stereotype of a Scottish Man fucking a sheep while drinking a bottle labeled ‘Buckfast and Heroin’.”
“Here is a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
www.stardock.com/products/start11/
Costs money but works with only minor quirks when turning the dGPU off.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
just saying, if I have to install some sketchy software to restore functionality that has existed on the platform flawlessly for almost four decades then it’s not a viable platform anymore.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not defending Microsoft but to say that Stardock is sketchy has no base in reality.
Reference4054@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is handy for home users, but at work I am stuck. Installing third party software is not allowed.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Install Linux Problem Solved.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Different issues and learning curve, but yes, fuck windows 11. Zorin FTW
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Until you accidentally delete the taskbar panel.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Re-install Linux, problem solved.
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Microsoft UI “designers” need to be beaten with frozen braids of 3 foot long licorice ropes.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 months ago
The whole explanation about screen size is telling.
The entire point of Windows being named Windows is that apps can run inside these resizable rectangles nicknamed windows.
Yet the rectangular taskbar is apparently impossible to handle…
cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s never been done before, and can never be done after, obviously. Not a chance. Nope. It’s not like it worked before, not like windows placement is not really the business of the taskbar app, not like it works with almost every other DE/OS, too.
Absolutely impossible. Microsoft, that apparently did not make windows up until now otherwise they’d know this explanation is pure bullshit, have absolutely no way, no resources, no knowledge on how to setup the available rectangular area on the screen for window placement. Nope.