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The good, the interface is cleaner in many areas including the settings, snip, and other built-in apps. Start menu is fine, better support for features that hav
by dudeinhawaii 5y ago
The good, the interface is cleaner in many areas including the settings, snip, and other built-in apps. Start menu is fine, better support for features that have been around forever (multiple desktops). Better support for WSL2. Better looking Explorer with more sensible menu options. Appears to have 100% compatibility with previous Windows versions. Better tiled window support with numerous snapping options, no need for third party tools for that (great on very large screens).
The bad, power users thrown to the side in favor of reducing clutter in some areas. In particular, the Explorer right-click menu has been gutted. Now there's an annoying "show all options" step to get to common actions you may have installed such as "open in Notepad++". By default, the menu shows 5 options and a few context actions but is designed to avoid the massive (and perhaps confusing) menus users would have after installing 20+ apps. Perhaps this is "mixed" rather than bad but I find it annoying.
The ugly, there's a small but noticeable latency in Explorer when navigating back and forth rapidly between drives/directories. A search for "windows 11 explorer slow" shows a common theme. It's not a constant, more like some sort of indexing hiccup that occurs from time to time when backing out of a folder or entering a new one.
That performance bug may be resolved in a bit, most bugs reported on the bug tracker have gotten surprisingly quick response rates. I reported a critical bug in the snip tool that was resolved in an emergency patch a week later.
There's probably other "good" items but as a Windows 10 power user/developer, this is what I noticed as part of the transition.