The Windows 11 Secret Tree Fort

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How many computers do you own and can I see pictures of them
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9 and no.

I've skimmed through a few pages of posts and what I mostly see is people afraid of change. This is the world's foremost congregation of autism so I guess I can understand that. Personally I learned to compute on Windows 3.1 and my first personal machine was running '95. There have been lots of changes since then. I was begrudging at first, but I have learned to accept it. Back in the day we had to memorize how to get into certain parts of the computer and it's settings and shit. The system was based on the way paper filing worked. I still operate that way, but when I tell my kids to navigate to somewhere and they get confused, I just tell them to type it in the damn search bar. At least with Windows 11 they will make sure that your machine can actually handle the upgrade. When Windows 8 came out someone bought me a laptop for Christmas. It came with Windows 8 and was almost completely unusable. Windows ate all of the ram and made doing anything nearly impossible. I had to go into task manager and stop Windows processes just to make it half way usable. What is it with windows upgrades and ram anyways. On this machine on 10 with my normal workload I would be using 20% or so of my 16GB. On 11 I'm using 40-50%. I'm only a few days into my Windows 11 experience, but so far my only gripes are that right clicking a file gives me a limited amount of options and stupid icons for shit I use frequently like cut, copy, and paste and I can't just right click the speaker icon and change the audio output. I liked right clicking and having 50 options pop up. I read good and somehow I'm able to navigate the options. The stupid icons for cut copy and paste confuse me and make me want to yell at clouds. Really, is it that hard for this generation to just read. Actually I take that back. I went to highschool with kids that had trouble reading three letter words and they graduated because no child left behind. I find myself hovering over a icon until it tells me what it is before I click it. I'll eventually just learn the icons. Yeah I know Linux. I have several Linux machines but, for a daily driver, nothing beats the ease of use and software compatibility of Windows. One more thing. I run three monitors and 11 seems to have fixed most of the problems I had with that. Kudos.
 
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ditto said:
Windows 11 has given me a big empty taskbar permanently at the bottom of the screen that I can't move or reduce in height. Not afraid of change, just tired of hipster UI design bs.
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My task bar is fine. Everything I had pinned there before is still there. The only thing missing is that stupid search bar. I didn't like it, but now that it is gone I'm having to adjust to the location of my programs. I did adjust my taskbar left btw. I'm glad they allowed that option in my version. In the first ones you only had center. I wish they would add right for the weirdos who like that. I keep my most used programs pinned to the task bar for easy access. I guess they are apps now. Anyways, I keep those there and a few essentials that I don't use as often on my desktop. I try to keep my desktop pretty clean. On Windows 11 I guess I hit the windows key then "all apps" to access everything else.
 
At this point I'm enjoying my spyware. I went from cautiously optimistic to actually enjoying the experience. Again it is a RAM hog, but all the wonky shit from 10 that gave me daily headaches seems to have been cured. I'll never endorse or recommend Windows, but if you like a nice crisp feel to your government approved backdoor, 11 seems to be where it is at.
 
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I love how a taskbar whose options are limited to "center my pinned shortcuts" and "put them on the left" is somehow an improvement over "yeah you can pin it on whatever side of the screen you prefer, make them big or small, chose what's in the system tray, make it whatever color you like".

I suppose I'm just afraid of change, not irritated by the objective decline in the amount of customization options. Heaven forbid my choices offend a fart-huffing UX designer in Redmond somewhere.
 
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I dare to say that Windows 95 had more customization configurations than Windows 11.

Also not the best place to discuss this, but it is just me or when the people started to whine about "muh representeshun", the web (and most globohomo corporations) decided to take away customization from a lot of things?
 
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Doppelmonger said:
I dare to say that Windows 95 had more customization configurations than Windows 11.

Also not the best place to discuss this, but it is just me or when the people started to whine about "muh representeshun", the web (and most globohomo corporations) decided to take away customization from a lot of things?
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That's a biiiiit of a stretch. I'd say lazy attempts to make the OS portable to numerous hardware platforms (like tablets, phones, etc) motivated the relatively restricted environment than some stupid political agenda.
Like, a solid 1/3rd of the disastrous design decisions in Windows 8 can be linked to the fact that it was developed as their Tablet OS. Windows 11 seems to be trying to implement similar features in the taskbar as iOS's Dock, and I expect trying to do so broke their taskbar coding, and the pajeets that make up most of their development team are too incompetent to fix it.
 
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Doppelmonger said:
it is just me or when the people started to whine about "muh representeshun", the web (and most globohomo corporations) decided to take away customization from a lot of things?
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It's just you. Customization has been on the way out for longer than it was ever with us.
Most famously, Office 2007 brought the "ribbon" UI which took away most customization, and at the time you heard from its defenders the same "You Fear Change", "Experts Decided This", and similar arguments that are commonplace today.
 
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Just get WinAero, you can roll back to the normal taskbar and shit. OpenShell is a good addition, also. All free!
 
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That's a biiiiit of a stretch. I'd say lazy attempts to make the OS portable to numerous hardware platforms (like tablets, phones, etc) motivated the relatively restricted environment than some stupid political agenda.
Like, a solid 1/3rd of the disastrous design decisions in Windows 8 can be linked to the fact that it was developed as their Tablet OS. Windows 11 seems to be trying to implement similar features in the taskbar as iOS's Dock, and I expect trying to do so broke their taskbar coding, and the pajeets that make up most of their development team are too incompetent to fix it.
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Fuck that gay shit.

'Hotdog Stand' or nothing.
 
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Windows 11 is "fine". It's not worse than 10. It's still immature in a lot of weird ways. Run and check in on SU10 updates on a regular basis I guess.

I think it's gonna end up being regarded as the new "best windows" in a year or two, but I'm still on 10.
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god this take aged like fucking milk
 
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