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My biggest issue with Win11 is that it constantly forces AI down our throats while removing our ability to do basic things without clicking into sub menus. It's
by chneu 1y ago
My biggest issue with Win11 is that it constantly forces AI down our throats while removing our ability to do basic things without clicking into sub menus. It's pretty clearly a push to get people to use a product inside of the OS, which defeats the purpose of the OS.
The UI is a garbled mess of like 15 years of UI design. There are 3+ menus for doing nearly every task. You can still use some views that have been around since windows 98. Then basic tasks get hidden.
it's just a garbled mess in so many ways. They push updates that break the OS on a regular basis.
And then with every update it erases all the changes you've made. The lack of customization is really annoying.
Then some updates kill performance for no real reason.
A couple years ago I switched to a custom build of Win10(spectre) then finally made the jump to full time linux again. My partner also switched, as did a bunch of her coworkers in academia. Everyone had similar complaints, in that win11 was harder to use for what they needed without any real benefits. I asked if there has been anything in win11 that has been beneficial and nobody can really say anything. A lot of win 11 feels like updating just to update.
Also somehow win11 audio/bluetooth is worse than linux. I had so, so many issues with bluetooth audio in win11. Just a mess of an OS.
- pmdr 1y ago> Then basic tasks get hidden. > The lack of customization is really annoying. This has been plaguing pretty much all software for at least 15 years now. Everyone wants to get away with an MVP. Advanced settings are deeply buried or they're simply inaccessible to users. Error messages no longer say anything meaningful, just 'oops' and 'we're sorry.' And that 'we' pronoun shatters any doubt as to who's now in control.
- gavinray 1y ago> The UI is a garbled mess of like 15 years of UI design. There are 3+ menus for doing nearly every task. You can still use some views that have been around since windows 98. Then basic tasks get hidden. I actually like the newer, "modern" designs, but the lack of cohesion in internal settings menu shows. A great example is the Power & Battery settings. There are two separate Control Panel screens for these, one of which has the old Control Panel UI and you're not really meant to use. They really need to go through all the internal settings/configs screens and port them to the new UI platform.