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THIS is better than Linux Mint?
But I love the windows 11 start menu. It’s way better than windows 10. I guess everyone just wants what they used to have. They complained when Windows 7 came out. Then complained when windows 8 changed it. Then complained when windows 10 changed it. And now I guess they are complaining again. I actually LOVE windows 11 start menu. I thought they actually did it right.
Oh nevermind...this is the register they complain about anything Microsoft does.
I didn’t think anyone was really complaining about windows 11 start menu. But maybe that’s why MS is changing it...they aren’t used to people not complaining.
I stopped being M$ BetaTester after Win7 (XP-W7).
I pretty much stopped using the start menu with Windows 8. Way too cluttered and messy. I just start typing the name of the application I want to use in the address bar and Windows finds it for me way faster than I can find it myself.
Bring back XP!
Everything since XP, the general public only has accepted begrudgingly, and only then after M$ set alight the bridge behind them.
Humans are drawn to familiarity. Familiar means comfort and security. Many (most?) people are put off by change - especially change for the sake of change. I believe that is why so many are so put off by Microsoft’s incessant fiddling with their OS.
I finally got around to setting up a Win-11 VM so that I could take a look at it. I had to do a VM because I do not own any PC’s that meet MS’s hardware requirements (TPM 2.0).
My initial impression? BFD.
I have yet to find it capable of anything that Win-10 can’t do. It’s similar to Windows, but with everything rearranged. So most of my time has been spent searching for things I know are there, but are not in the right places.
The changes are not as radical as Win-8 (I still consider that an unpardonable sin against humanity!) but still discomfiting. And unnecessary.
So what’s my basic inclination when presented with this new OS? Change it - or more accurately, change it back. Install the browser that I like (with Windows fighting me tooth and nail). Install Open Shell so that I have a more usable (familiar?!) program menu. Tweak settings for file explorer, etc.
Did I have to make all those changes? No - but yes. I could continue to cast about, searching for stuff and being constantly irritated that it isn’t where it belongs. Or I can “fix” it by retrograding it.
This looks like where we part company, Microsoft and I.
I just spent 28,000 bucks upgrading my crap engineering software. Damn them all. Damn Bill Gates. Give me back my abacus and slide ruler.