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by thucydides 1318 days ago
What's wrong with Windows 11?
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Forced TPM and all of the subsequent practical and philosophical knock on effects

Forced Microsoft accounts and all of the practical and philosophical knock on effects

Adds nothing but adverts and obfuscation to windows 10, despite previous claims it would be the last OS increment and many people have built tools and working around windows 10 on that basis

Copying apple has reached a new low with UI and taskbar

Audio and wifi increased in complexity

The main question is whats the benefit of windows 11 over windows 10? I only see disadvantage where we need to have TPM so we can accept their DRM in future, or useless taskbar where dragging and dropping doesn't work etc.

Not to mention that additional bloats that will be added in windows 10.

Windows Xp could run in 128MB and that was perfectly fine for people like me. But now even 4gigs is not sufficient to run pc smoothly.

I think it has WSL GUI, so you can run Linux graphical applications.

https://youtu.be/kC3eWRPzeWw

Anyone can run graphical Linux apps on Windows 10 too, or even on XP/Cygwin. You just have to install the X Server (VcXsrv) separately.
Android compat layer.
Still cannot drag an object onto the taskbar to move it or open it in my selected program - something I do dozens of times a day, and something for which there is no feasible workaround.
The new taskbar is the most visible - it can't be on the sides, can't be resized, and breaks a large number of workflows around right clicking, dragging, and more.

Context menus are a mess, hiding most options multiple levels deep when there's plenty of space.

Every quarter they get more intrusive trying to get you to click on the wrong button that will change your browser and default apps, and they use every antipattern short of moving the window under your cursor to try to convince you not to change away from their defaults. Yes, Win10 had a "are you sure you don't want Edge" popup but Win11 is far worse.

It's also harder than ever (maybe impossible now?) to create a local user account.

Right click on taskbar + Task Manager ... Gone.

Move taskbar vertically to left or right ... Gone.

Desktop right click menu extra clicks ... No thanks.

Edge shoved down my throat ... No thanks.

TPM, Secure Boot ... No thanks.

Need Microsoft account ... No thanks.

Xbox Game bar and other bloatware ... No thanks.

the centered taskbar
As an ultrawide monitor user, I love the centered Taskbar. I only use Windows for gaming, but I couldn't use it for work if I didn't have the task bar centered.
You can probably do this with Windows 10 using TaskBarX[0].

[0] https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX

There is a setting to left-align the taskbar