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by dgellow 1723 days ago
I have to say that I do not understand the bad press around Windows 11. I'm using the dev channel since it's available and while things have been unstable (expected from a dev release), the user experience is clearly an improvement over the mess Windows 10 is. My machine doesn't feel slugish anymore, the Start menu and settings panel are finally usable, the new windows snapping features work quite well, managing external displays isn't a nightmare anymore, etc.

I was even able to update my old Thinkpad x230 after enabling TPM from the bios, it feels usable again.
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1_player 1723 days ago
> the user experience is clearly an improvement over the mess Windows 10 is

To me, it looks like another coat of varnish haphazardly and thoughtlessly painted on top of multiple layers on a crumbling, dry wall. A mishmash of ideas added on top of Windows 10, not an evolution and revolution and refactoring of what Windows is. Ah, and more telemetry and ads.

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dgellow 1723 days ago
Yes, that’s not false. But it’s a nice coating, to continue your wall painting analogy. It’s way more coherent than Windows 8 or Windows 10. but it’s still fundamentally the same windows mess.
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elorant 1723 days ago
How about scaling? Did they fix it because in Win10 it was horrendous.
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dgellow 1723 days ago
What are you scaling? I’m not sure I understand your question without more context
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elorant 1723 days ago
Scaling is when you change the size of fonts, apps, etc. In Win10 if you chose anything above 100% everything becomes blurry. There's also a problem when you use multiple monitors with different resolutions. You move a window from one screen to the next and it doesn't scale properly. It's a known issue for some years, and I'd wish they solved it in Win11.
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dgellow 1722 days ago
Ah yes! scaling of the UI has been fixed for me since Windows 11. I use a laptop with a 4k display, and an external display with a 2k resolution. That was really a mess with windows 10, since windows 11 I’m very happy with the scaling and external display support. Even the Win+P menu to change how the external display is being used is not as buggy as it was with Windows 10.

I only have issue with Telegram’s client, and that’s due to their use of Qt, which doesn’t support native UI scaling without relaunching the app.

But I would guess that may vary depending on your setup.

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