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pacoboyd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Classic right click menu is a regkey away. Classic control panel is still there too. I have 4 monitors, task bar on all of them, not sure why yours doesn’t. Apps even go to the appropriate task bar per monitor when minimized. Suggested apps size can be minimized. They only should you “ad” ones on first boot, otherwise gone once you remove them. Me thinks you just like to complain lol

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SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I really don’t think it’s reasonable to be needing to mess with the registry to get basic behaviour that you want. It’s just the same shit that people accuse Linux of needing to use the terminal all the time except in windows flavour.

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- pacoboyd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t disagree and I’m glad you aren’t making the “it would be easier in Linux” argument.
  
  What I do think the changes are there to encourage access to BASIC functionality for the majority of users, but it does come across as dumbing down to folks that are power users. I really do think this is a case of “what would 90% of the population use” kinda thing.
  
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  - warm@kbin.earth ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Also the case of how its been in Windows for decades, if it was truly better they would have changed it ages ago, but it isnt better, its just UI designers justifying their paychecks.
    
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    pacoboyd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Some of these changes may not stick, but UI / UX is always evolving to the next thing. You have to try things to know if they are successful. I’ll use the new Apple Vision Pro as a example. Apple is taking a gamble here and this is a HUGE change in UI interactions, can you imagine if they never evolved past the old iPod scroll wheel? (maybe a bad example becuaee that was a great tactile user experience). But my point is people have evolved how they use technology, it’s “generally” more reliable and the under the hood stuff can be tucked away for the general user.
    
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fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
For your first two points, I’m kinda against having to fight against the system, at that point I prefer to work alongside the system with Linux, but W/E. In any case, I would have fixed these if the taskbar wasn’t impossible. No I’m not going to install a 3rd party program to fix the taskbar.

About the 4 monitors, it’s cool that you like having 4 taskbars, wasting tons of space. I don’t. I’m not asking that, I’m asking having a single taskbar vertically. It’s one of the big complaints I’ve read about win11, not being able to have vertical taskbars on the side of the monitor.

I’ve not seen a way to remove the “recommended” space in the start menu, and I’m sorry but any recommendation I didn’t agree with is an ad. You might think otherwise, and that’s cool, but I don’t like ads in products I pay.

That last sentence wasn’t very nice, especially considering that you didn’t understand one of the complaints (the taskbar thing).

Anyway, happy that you are enjoying win11 and I wish I was, but yeah, I don’t fancy paying for less features.

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- pacoboyd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Recommended space isn’t for ads, it’s for newly installed programs. It might show some icons there like Spotify when the OS is installed, but once you remove them they are gone. New “ads” don’t show up later.
  
  If you want less space dedicated to recently installed (recommendations) change the start menu density to “More Pins”
  
  It’s just a different way of doing / labeling. Old start menu had “recently installed” this is the same as “recommend”
  
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  - fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You say even more, as if it was comical to begin with. But yeah, it’s annoying sometimes but I’m not dropping 1k for a new GPU anytime soon, I’ll have to suffice with the one I have. Yeah I do update them weekly almost, every time I do yay there’s a new driver version, it updates and it works. No major issues besides the explicit sync but that’s being fixed soon and I installed a patch so yeah.
    
    For sure I spent more time customising it than I did in windows, but that’s kind of the point isn’t it? Linux is about that, windows is not supposed to be. I don’t mind spending time customising and tinkering if I know that a megacorp isn’t taking my data. That was the trade-off, data and money for convenience. Now that convenience has been reduced and the data has increased, it’s not worth it for me anymore.
    
    So yeah, with windows you need to work against the system, disabling stuff that they intend to ship that is harmful, while on Linux you work with the system, tinkering and customising stuff the way you like it, with the defaults being a community thing, not a megacorp thing.
    
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    pacoboyd@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I mean, read your comment,
    
    Yeah I do update them weekly almost, every time I do yay there’s a new driver version, it updates and it works. No major issues besides the explicit sync but that’s being fixed soon and I installed a patch so yeah.
    
    then read this:
    
    xkcd.com/2501/
    
    I think we just need to agree Linux is fine for power users, but Windows is kinda always going to be for the masses and arguing against that is kind of a moot point because it’s just facts that Windows (~70%) > Linux (~4%) in OS market share. It’s also facts that you can strip out almost anything out of Windows and make it work, but that’s not a “for the masses” move either. So arguing that Linux is a better move than Windows because “muh customization” is a moot point for like 90% of people.
    
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