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I've been using Windows 11 for some time. Besides it's terrible AI features being shoved down our throats, what's different about it from Win10?
I don't see too much of a difference between the two versions. The AI enshittification is relatively recent.
For me it's the removal and change of UI elements. There is still no built in way to move the task bar to the top or side of the screen and to get a useful right click menu back I have to go into the registry and change a value. There is also the whole thing where you are forced to use a Microsoft account with no option to use a local account instead.
I guess the location of the menu never really bothered me but I can understand that for folks who prefer it on the side.
Admittedly, using a local account is a challenge though not impossible. But to your point none of these things should require registry hacks.
Besides the ones that they listed, I've also heard complaints about a lack of multi-monitor support and ads in the Start menu and login screen, though I believe the ads are only in certain versions of 11 (the home/personal editions, but not the more expensive company editions). I think the ads have also been limited to Microsoft products and apps from the Microsoft store - stuff like Word and Edge - but it's a really bad path that they're going down and it's only a matter of time until that becomes targeted ads to go along with their tracking and selling data.
It's going to annoy me. I keep the task bar on the bottom on my machine and on the side for remote/virtual machines
Not defending windows 11 in any way, but on install, when you get to the "login to your microsoft account" screen, if you open command prompt (ctrl + f10 i think) and open the network utility - type
ncpa.cpl, then you can find and disable your network adaptor. Close cmd and the network utility and click back. It will ask you to create a local user.I've done this a couple of times and it hasn't forced me to create a Microsoft account yet (I use a lot of windows vms). If this no longer works on win11, apologies, it used to.
But I shouldn't have to do that. I should just be able to say no.
That's pretty much the main thing, through they keep trying to slip shit it like the recall function, ads in new places. They also had some real trouble with the new internal CPU management, not sure where that is these days.
Honestly I'm tired of Microsoft pulling this shit. Personally I can take a bad OS launch or needing a little more maintaince on my PC, but I don't want to fight them anymore for control of my own hardware.
Privacy, I wager.
I have to use it for software testing and I fucking hate the UI with everything crammed into the center of the taskbar. Beyond that it's running in a virtual desktop and I don't go beyond launching apps in it so I really can't say. My work laptop is supposed to be upgraded next week, im sure ill find plenty to bitch about then.
you can change that. you can set the task bar to be similar to the previous versions.
i have it with the windows button to the left, no search bar, no pinned apps no meteo.
i prefer kde but it's bearable.
The company I work for disabled the taskbar settings when they put out Win 10. I'm Assuming they will do it on Win11 too so I may not have that option but thanks for the info anyway I'll certainly try it.
Personally I've had issues with it not being possible for the battery icon to showing a percentage. And the keyboard layout resets to the first one every time you unlock.
Most people don't care as they only have one layout. You and me are odd. I usually set my preferred layout as default
My problem is that the laptop keyboard has an ISO layout but my preferred layout is ANSI. So i am sort of forced to switch when i occasionally have to use the laptop without an external keyboard. Also the international us layout on windows is bad because " and ' are dead keys and there's no way to fix it without installing a third party keyboard layout.