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And ten times more unusable without several third party programs to fix the absolutely fubared UI.
It takes about ten clicks more, on average, to do anything in 11 than in 10.
Utterly unusable garbage, is what it is, even if you ignore all the spyware and bloatware and lost functionality.
(Of course the same could be said of 10 in regards to XP, and XP in regards to 2000, so really it's utterly unusable garbage cubed.)
I...honestly don't know what you mean, and I've had 11 since about when it came out. Do you have an example?
Lots of settings actually seem more convenient now, especially the ones for audio and Bluetooth.
Try to configure a printer.
Try to configure a network adapter.
Try to configure graphics settings.
Try to organise the start menu to make it even remotely useable.
Try to uninstall a store app for all users without having to use undocumented powershell incantations.
And I'm already wanting to punch something, so I'll stop now.
Sure, if all you want is to turn them on or off and you don't want to actually configure anything.
You've failed to mention a single thing that can be qualified as a daily use-case. Okay, it might take an extra click or two to set up a printer, but this isn't something you do every day unless you work in an IT department. Even then, it sounds like you're rather irritated that things aren't how they used to be.
They're daily use cases to me and everyone I work with, but OK, fuck the people solving your IT problems, I suppose, what could possibly go wrong.
Well, seeing as I only just installed Windows 11 I actually do need to do those, so here goes:
Windows button -> "add printer" -> Click "Add a printer or scanner" -> Click "Add Device" -> Oh my god it actually found my shitty wifi printer immediately! -> Click Add -> Jesus it actually worked quickly and without any issues. I'm actually blown away by this. It's never worked anywhere close to this smoothly on Linux, Windows 10 or even Mac.
Well I don't really need to do this but let's imagine I want to set a static IP.
Windows button -> "net..." ok it wants to show me Settings but it did show me "View Network Connections" for a second too, which based on my experience of Windows 10 is a better bet... -> Right click -> Properties -> TCP/IPv4 -> Properties... Ok everything here appears to be absolutely identical to Windows 10.
Hmm I do want to know what refresh rate I'm using. IIRC in Windows 10 this was always most easily available by right clicking the desktop (yeah it's not like Windows 10 was exactly consistent).
Right click -> Display settings -> Ok this isn't what I remember from Windows 7 & maybe 10.
Can't see refresh rate, but there is "Advanced display", oh it actually says "Display information, refresh rate" in the subtitle. 100 Hz great.
The start menu wasn't really usable in Windows 10 either. This is certainly an improvement at least - no shitty links to OneDrive or whatever to remove (in the IoT edition at least). The only thing I had to do here was move it to the left instead of the centre, which was fortunately easy.
IoT edition doesn't actually have the Windows Store.
You know. I did all of those for my grandmother a few months back.
If you're having problems with those things, that's a you problem. Wasn't difficult at all to set it up for her, including Uninstalling bloat.
Yes, for some I did Google a powershell solution. Literally, "how to uninstall X with powershell" and boom. Done.
I get it. It's cool to hate on windows. I miss 7 too. But you just come across as technologically impaired.
Oh, wow, I bow to the expert; I only have to do them several times a week on a variety of machines, and have been doing so for a couple decades. Clearly all my problems would be fixed if I was as experienced as you, please accept my humble apologies, oh master.
Oh, most definitely.
I have a problem with settings that used to be grouped on a single easy to get window being randomly spread over several unrelated ones, and that's the ones which aren't only configurable now through the registry, or group policies, or powershell incantations.
I have a problem with tasks that used to take 30 seconds and less than five clicks now taking minutes and the risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.
I have a problem with the almost constant loss of functionality and usability since windows 2000; sure there's some nice new features from time to time (winget is nice, if late, WSL1 was good — WSL2 is a horrible bloated hack that completely ignores that the NT architecture is designed to integrate multiple kernel subsystems at its core —, the windows 10 start menu was relatively practical once you got it setup right and until it randomly decided to fubar itself, shadow copies were very nice and are sorely missed...), but they don't tend to last, and are usually gone by the next version of the OS or even the next major update.
But sure, sure, it's a me problem; never mind everyone else complaining about the same issues. We clearly just want to be cool.