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I just built a new PC literally yesterday and decided to try Win11. It has been shocking how terrible of an experience it is. The very first thing I saw was Ti
by sensanaty 2y ago
I just built a new PC literally yesterday and decided to try Win11. It has been shocking how terrible of an experience it is.
The very first thing I saw was TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and some other bloatware apps installed in the start menu (this is a Pro install, not Home edition)
The start menu itself is basically just a copy of a mobile phone's home screen.
I can no longer place my taskbar to the top as I've done for the last 20 years.
A disgusting amount of telemetry is enabled by default, including what is basically a keylogger, and I don't trust them for a second that they actually stop sending everything through even if you disable it in the group policy editor.
The right-click context menu requires 2 clicks to get the usual list of actions.
In order to change to the dark theme, you have to login with a microsoft account. Many other settings are also disabled until you login.
Edge gives you a truly pathetic nag if you type in Firefox on Bing. It constantly nags at you afterwards. I actually laughed out loud at how sad and pathetic it was, literally begging you to keep using Edge.
Explorer hangs constantly and is infuriatingly slow, even on my extremely fast and for now empty SSD. Search is useless despite the indexing feature.
I could go on. There're some small nice improvements like better dark mode support (though still not perfect and there's still lots of legacy windows). HDR support is better. The new settings app is better if only cause things aren't split between the control panel and it anymore.
However there being ads and suggested items popping up in my start menu disgusts me. The fact that you have to debloat the OS yourself, find 3rd party tools to fix all the garbage decisions M$ made, all for what basically amounts to microscopic sidegrades compared to Win10 just makes it a nogo.
I don't care about security "updates", I'll be using Win10 for a long, long time.