Good for them, I doubt it’ll be as powerful as my various KDE bars.
Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar
Submitted 3 weeks ago by along_the_road@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theverge.com/tech/897849/microsoft-windows-11-taskbar-vertical-top-movable
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cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Hmm, does this assist in uninstalling Windows 11 faster to upgrade to Linux or something? Or what’s the improvement here?
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
My unstanding is that the Windows core team made this change as another step in their commitment to the Year of the Linux Desktop.
The moveable taskbar, specifically, eases the transition to Windows, since most Linux DE have had moveable taskbars forever.
I would tag this as sarcasm, but I’m not honestly 100% sure it’s not partly true.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Wow it’s almost back at feature parity already! Only 4.5 years after release!
TehPers@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Windows 11 is getting a few nice changes. The problem is I’m on Linux now. I’m not going back unless it becomes better than Linux by enough to make me bother switching again.
CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I dual boot for a few things but 99% of my personal usage is Linux. I held off on 11 until it was absolutely necessary. I hate a lot of it. That said, there are some things I do genuinely like about 11 over 10 and previous Windows versions. I like the look and feel, but only after regedit tweaks to revert the garbage new right click menu and remove the recommended crap from the start menu. After doing that, 11’s start menu is better than 10’s. I don’t like that they just cluttered it up again in a recent update though.
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Microsoft finally realizing that version numbers won’t get users to switch to 11, they actually have to give users what they want.
Meanwhile, XFCE lets me build as many panels as I want and configure them however I like.
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Screw em. Too little too late. I’ve fallen in love with gnome, I don’t even need a taskbar anymore. It’s refreshing when an OS/DE just does its job and gets out of the way.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Can they make it less large? It takes up like 25% of the screen (half sarcasm).
Fuck Microsoft.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I bet it moves to Windows 10.
irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Thank goodness. I often have to remote into remote servers to do work, it’s so confusing having stacks of task bars on the bottom. It’s been driving me insane since my company upgraded Windows.
hono4kami@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Way too late, I’m already on Linux since, like, 2023
Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You mean the thing that should’ve been there from the start? The thing that was possible since launch using Explorer Patcher or Windhawk?
Yeah, I’m still on Windows due to specific issues I could never solve with Linux (although I’m itching to try again). If I was not able to have top-side taskbar with small icons, never collapsing and left aligned (as it should be), I would rather put up with any issues Linux gave me than use Windows 11 with its defaults.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
From the start… Get it? Start?
I’ll show myself out.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
The shitty vibe-coded desktop environment/ window manager I made over the past month has a movable taskbar.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You mean, the feature that literally every other OS has had since the 90’s? INCLUDING WINDOWS???
Money truly breeds complacency.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Macos over here all shifty eyed.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Man, I just can’t take OSX seriously as a comparison. They are off doing their own thing with the other apple stuff.
Naich@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Oh don’t bother with that. Can’t your shoehorn some more AI into the mouse pointer or the volume up button?