[pid-1]

I've been using Win 11 - preview, for development and personal stuff - for a few months and I really can't understand why people are getting mad at it.

A few UI elements have changed places, but it mostly feels like Win 10 to me.

[userbinator]

Did you try moving the taskbar, switching the default browser, or any other feature that they just decided to make harder, slower, or impossible?

People understandably get pissed off when features they have been using for over a decade suddenly disappear in an "upgrade". They expect things that used to work to keep working, and perhaps other things that didn't work to now work, but that's not what they got.

For me, the "new version of Windows is actually better" feeling faded around the 2K/XP timeframe. Since then it has only been increasingly minor improvements combined with increasingly greater regressions.

[smackeyacky]

That's not entirely true. Microsoft did fix a lot of the device driver instability that plagued Win2k / XP around when they released Windows 7. Windows 10 was a further improvement in stability but at the expense of all the adware / telemetry. I've been running Windows 11 for a while and I don't hate it, but I spend more dev time in VSCode and WSL2 so it just feels like a weird Linux distribution that gets in the way.

[kyriakos]

Other than the task bar I think everything else is OK, the ui is cleaner and modern. My main issue is that it feels more like a reskin than an actual OS update. What really changed under the hood? No ones talking about that.

[MrMember]

Personally I won't ever use it as long as it requires a cloud login.