Windows 11 is getting more disgusting by the "Insider" Update

[RejZoR]

On 4/6/2022 at 4:43 AM, YamiYukiSenpai said:

I'm only using Windows 11 in a VM to play games that won't work on Linux at all (i.e. anti-cheat), and the "simplifications" are pissing me off.

I only found out recently that their "widgets" require a Microsoft account.

And since I got less than 5 years left on 10, figured I'd jump ship & just mod 11 if it pissed me off enough (and it did).

Oh boy, you haven't seen the dumbest thing yet. Not only that, if you have Widgets button enabled in the Taskbar, but not other functions like Search (so that Widgets button is right next to Start), it'll be canceling out Start menu if you want to go with mouse from opening Start menu straight to "Shutdown" button. Because if you just hover over Widgets button, it pops up and closes Start and the direct path from Start menu to Shutdown button goes straight across Widgets button. Top notch design. How can a multibillion company like Microsoft screw up something this basic is just beyond baffling.

 

Other thing is the Widgets panel and it's stupid "News" filling it from top to bottom. With no god damn way to just turn all this shit off. You literally just can't. If you have nothing selected, it just throws in some garbage news and if you want to manually untick them all somehow (which you need to do in stupid Edge for some fucked up reason), it'll just present you endless list of "News" sources that you need to manually click "Hide" on every single one of them. After 2 minutes of clicking I said fuck this and removed the dumb useless widgets panel. I haven't seen anything more stupid in my life and I make basic tweak tools and programs for a hobby. And here is a corporation that has AAA developers and spends billions on stuff and they cna't make most basic "hello world" shit right is just insane.

 

The requirement to have an account is just a rotten cherry on top.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

15 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Oh boy, you haven't seen the dumbest thing yet. Not only that, if you have Widgets button enabled in the Taskbar, but not other functions like Search (so that Widgets button is right next to Start), it'll be canceling out Start menu if you want to go with mouse from opening Start menu straight to "Shutdown" button. Because if you just hover over Widgets button, it pops up and closes Start and the direct path from Start menu to Shutdown button goes straight across Widgets button. Top notch design. How can a multibillion company like Microsoft screw up something this basic is just beyond baffling.

 

Other thing is the Widgets panel and it's stupid "News" filling it from top to bottom. With no god damn way to just turn all this shit off. You literally just can't. If you have nothing selected, it just throws in some garbage news and if you want to manually untick them all somehow (which you need to do in stupid Edge for some fucked up reason), it'll just present you endless list of "News" sources that you need to manually click "Hide" on every single one of them. After 2 minutes of clicking I said fuck this and removed the dumb useless widgets panel. I haven't seen anything more stupid in my life and I make basic tweak tools and programs for a hobby. And here is a corporation that has AAA developers and spends billions on stuff and they cna't make most basic "hello world" shit right is just insane.

 

The requirement to have an account is just a rotten cherry on top.

Ugh! That news button that's not a button by default.  Who in their right mind thought a hover is the best way to open that?

 

My workplace is using Windows 10 on old Dell Optiplex with primarily 3rd gen Intel i3.  That stupid thing slows down the system big time.

[jagdtigger]

On 4/8/2022 at 10:57 AM, RejZoR said:

Because if you just hover over Widgets button, it pops up and closes Start and the direct path from Start menu to Shutdown button goes straight across Widgets button.

"Oh look how many users using the widgets so it most be pretty good, lets keep it!"

 

They are doctoring their statistics.....

[DavidKalinowski]

On 3/29/2022 at 6:31 AM, Mel0nMan said:

Glad I stuck with 10, I'm never installing this mess... What's next, removing File Explorer and replacing it with something in Edge? 

DONT GIVE THEM ANY IDEAS!!!