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To: dayglored
LOL. Just wait until MS gets ready to drop support of Win10. Over time, all your MS and other commercial software will require Win11.

That is the kind of comment that I was hoping for. And I do not have a problem with what you or the author of the piece are saying. But Microsoft is not going to drop support for Windows 10 for another four years. So we should have a stable experience in Windows 10 for another four years.

People who want the latest bells and whistles can opt for Windows 11. I do not have a problem with this. People like me who have a processor that didn't make the list won't have to put up with constant nags from Microsoft like we did most recently from 7 to 10.

That said I have been playing enough with my Windows 11 virtual machine to say that it actually seems pretty nice. Although I have to admit that I have tweaked it some to make it more familiar. I like the Windows button over on the left bottom corner of my screen and put it back where it belongs and several other “features” have been corrected as well.

26 posted on 10/26/2021 11:39:26 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15
> ...I have to admit that I have tweaked it some to make it more familiar. I like the Windows button over on the left bottom corner of my screen and put it back where it belongs and several other “features” have been corrected as well.

For all of the minor annoyances of Apple's OSX/MacOS, one major thing I give them -- they have left the top menu bar alone for decades, so you know right where things are and you can concentrate on getting things done instead of farting around searching for where they hid the "go" button this time.

Microsoft changes stuff for the hell of it, hides stuff you need, throws stuff you don't want in your face, and when that's not enough aggravation, they change how some long-familiar thing works so that it doesn't do what you expect.

I got sick and tired of having to dork around with desktop themes and settings over and over, and Win10 changing the entire "Control Panel" to "PC Settings" where I can't find anything, which is one reason why I switched my workstations to MacOS, and run Windows (and Linux) as VMs.

28 posted on 10/26/2021 12:07:01 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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