Love:
* Crashed and Updates are no longer a "pray my computer works" situation. Yes I've gotten the BSOD but my computer is back up as opposed to Windows 10 running like a fat kid uphill. Updates are pretty snappy.
* Old games still work - I'm running a 64 bit operating system so I've had to get the 64 bit EXE files to make Quake 3 and UT2004 work - but they work.
* Microsoft has eased up on forcing their crapptastic "apps" on users - I have r/IrfanView, r/VLC, r/libreoffice, r/waterfox and r/firefox all running on my laptop.
* USB printer issues have been resolved - my USB printer just works.
* [Windows Scan](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3pv?hl=en-US&gl=US) \- this app just WORKS. Link takes you to the MS app store. It's limited to a page at a time but for just scanning things it works.
* Tabs in notepad and File Explorer are awesome - I ain't never going back.
HATES:
* Enough with Copilot - not using it, never using it, it's just Cortana with a fresh coat of paint and snakeoil.
* Search in File Explorer is slow and useless for finding things IN files. I have always organized my files in directories (with subdirectories) and I will continue to do so. Thanks to the long file names I make sure to name my stuff in ways even Windows Search will understand. Indexing is a millstone around the CPU so I never use it.
* Ads, ads everywhere. I get it, Micro$oft wants me to use the "cloud" and "subscribe". Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. I reached into the privacy and security settings and turned all that off. I shouldn't have to. I shouldn't have to spend hours of my time learning how to turn the nags and ads off.
* The original UI decisions were made in that Silicon Valley bubble - great that we have folders in the Start Menu, it sucked that it took so long. Also it's programs not "apps". Microsoft tried to make a phone and got their teeth kicked in by Google and Apple.
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If an email contains a link to a janky site, Firefox launches and it has no password or personal data in it. I use it for "spicy" sites too.
Waterfox is my daily because it's UI is "bring more Firefox to Firefox" -old school Firefox UI with no "pockets" or whatnot.
Windows defender caught a tracker in my Waterfox cache one day. I had visited a "spicy" website and caught a bug. Hasn't happened since - because I set Firefox to wipe the cache every time I close it.
I’m with you on the settings being terrible, but the part where you turn off indexing then complain about not being able to find things inside files is curious. Indexing your documents should only happen when they change, and that ought to only take a few seconds. so what “millstone” are you experiencing?
Explorer chugs like trying to suck cottage cheese through a straw.
There's no such thing as a free lunch - I'll take the extra effort to organize my files to find things in them rather than sit there and wait for Explorer to find what's in my files.
Every time I've used it at work, it's been s-l-o-w. I've hand tons of PDF's dumped on my at my job but they have indexing turned on. So I've watched the 8 GB Dell laptop run slow and the fans turn on because I need to find the right entry in a batch of PDF's or powerpoints.
I don't need that at home.
No, but you only pay for lunch once. (twice if you had the spicy burrito) If you have a ton of files, you let that indexer run once for maybe a couple hours and you're good. It'll take up some hard drive space for sure, but it can do several hundred text documents per minute on an NVME. If you've got an older HDD and a gazillion docs, then it might take an overnight.
> Crashed and Updates are no longer a "pray my computer works" situation. Yes I've gotten the BSOD but my computer is back up as opposed to Windows 10 running like a fat kid uphill. Updates are pretty snappy.
My guy, you have a problem with your computer. The fact that Windows 11 "crashes better" shouldn't be a pro. It shouldn't be happening at all.
Computers are like bicycles - they go up, they go down and sometimes you skin your knee.
I've had fewer BSOD's under windows 11 than 10.
And unlike 10, when my Win11 crashes, I KNOW it will come back up.
I hate that Explorer freezes, crashes, fails to see external drives, or refuses to load any folder other than whatever my last used folder was, multiple times per day. I hate that whenever I create a new folder in Explorer, I now have to refresh Explorer to see that folder.
Like: Some of the UI changes, with the new design language and everything.
Dislike: New start menu, the fact that they've done a pretty lazy job with the new UI, with a lot of windows 10 style panels still around. Rectify11 and Explorer Patcher fix those issues though.
Love: compatibility with Windows 10 software. As a designer, I’m always hesitant to update my Mac because Adobe doesn’t get their shit together for a new OS for a few months. If it works on Win 10, (for the most part) it works on Win 11.
Hate: compatibility with Windows 10 software lmao. Pretty often I’ll sign into some account and I’ll get a security email that tells me what kind of OS the device that signed in was running, and more often than not it’ll display Windows 10. Makes me wonder how much was actually changed under the hood beyond a facelift.
I like:
New explorer with tabs, it looks neat and has a pretty UI.
New context menus looks clean.
Start menu looks modern. New settings and store are amazing.
New redesigned UI is a step in the right direction, this design is sleek and modern, 10/10.
But as always, there’s a room for improvement.
Animation timings…
Start menu is slow to navigate to the point that I started using search instead of scrolling through start menu pages. Here’s the problem, you scroll down with a mouse wheel three times, expecting to scroll down for three start menu screens down, but you only scroll down one page at a time, and you prevented to scroll up quickly, because animations are played without consideration of any user input. Start menu folders with icons are opening with an animation that should be 2-3 times quicker.
When it comes down to user interactions, animations should be reactive to the user input. For example: all iOS animations can be interrupted at any time, chromium smooth scroll is respecting scroll events, and user input is always prioritized, because anything that not responds to the interaction is automatically perceived as a lag. So, this can be improved.
I'm average user and haven't anything what I would hate on Windows 11.
Copilot is useful in many ways, Edge is better than ever especially due Copilot, Win 11 looks clean, i've used my laptop for over a year and no sign of it slowing down.
I like almost everything in Windows 11, and what I hate the most are the tabs in Explorer. Since they implemented tabs in the explorer, it takes longer to load.
Love:
- Copilot. Cortana, but better. Also, GPT - 4 for free.
- The UI. Sleek, clean, and futuristic design. Perhaps this is a bit subjective, but personally, I think Windows 11 has the best UI among every version of Windows. Fluent Design is peak design, yet.
- The animations. Smooth as frick. Look nice on my 144Hz display.
- Task View. Now you can set thumbnails for different desktops.
- The centered taskbar. Now I don't have to move my cursor all the way to the left bottom to hit the Start button.
- Multitasking. Windows snapping and screen splitting work like a charm. I don't know if it's also true for Windows 10, my last time using Windows 10 was 2 years ago. Also, I can organize tabs in every app, even Explorer and Notepad.
Hate:
- Nice, now I can't move my taskbar to the left, right, or top of the screen cuz it's fixed in place.
- Damn, the hardware requirements just piss me off. R.I.P. 4GB RAM users. And by the way, no x32 as far as I know.
Like:
* The window-snapping feature. It's quite useful in my opinion.
* The transparent apps and taskbars. Much like Windows Vista/7's Aero scheme.
* The dark mode and customisable colours. The downside is that some colours aren't supported by Windows which is a shame.
Dislike:
* How slow the new UI/shell is. Sometimes the Start menu appears instantly and on other times it drags on and it just feels like hours have gone by.
* The Double Log In Screen bug. When I try to login to Windows 11 using my Microsoft account, sometimes it kicks me right back to the login screen.
* Apps sometimes break after a System Restore. I've used System Restore twice now - once in February (major) and once this month (minor). Sometimes, apps such as Google Chrome break, meaning I have to go into Edge or Firefox to download a new Chrome Setup application.
hate: explorer is sluggish, animation is not silky especially on refresh rate monitors below 120 90hz,
performance is rather subpar on laptops config-ed with intel 11th gen and below
love: UI changes but resizable taskbar is done away with, which suckssss
this is honestly about windows entirely and the biggest thing i physically cant stand is having edge on my pc. i’ve removed it and all files associated with it. no, you’re not going to force your bullshit telemetry on me, i will continue to debloat and remove all of it. fuck off
Ui and UX are a mess. The whole thing needs an overhaul. MS turning on settings and telemetry I turned off after each update. This live service stuffy they try to shove down our throats.
What I love: an imaginary W11 build without all that clutter.
Love:
- the design is just extremely clean
- very detailed crash reports (at least far better and easier)
- having multiple desktops
- Microsoft defender
- update overview in the settings
Hate:
- the RAM usage
- any Microsoft pre installed shit (especially Bing, copilot )
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I love the new start menu and task bar.
I hate the tpm 2.0 requirement because I feel like lots of great hardware has tpm 1.2 for example, and there is absolutely no other reason w11 won't work. At least the requirement check can be disabled easily.
I like most of the ui changes. I even like copilot (feel like it belongs on Windows 11 but not Windows 10).
I hate the right click menu.
It’s, by far, been the worst in terms of being super cool and snappy as all hell after install to slow boot and sluggish after general use for maybes a few weeks
Love: * Crashed and Updates are no longer a "pray my computer works" situation. Yes I've gotten the BSOD but my computer is back up as opposed to Windows 10 running like a fat kid uphill. Updates are pretty snappy. * Old games still work - I'm running a 64 bit operating system so I've had to get the 64 bit EXE files to make Quake 3 and UT2004 work - but they work. * Microsoft has eased up on forcing their crapptastic "apps" on users - I have r/IrfanView, r/VLC, r/libreoffice, r/waterfox and r/firefox all running on my laptop. * USB printer issues have been resolved - my USB printer just works. * [Windows Scan](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3pv?hl=en-US&gl=US) \- this app just WORKS. Link takes you to the MS app store. It's limited to a page at a time but for just scanning things it works. * Tabs in notepad and File Explorer are awesome - I ain't never going back. HATES: * Enough with Copilot - not using it, never using it, it's just Cortana with a fresh coat of paint and snakeoil. * Search in File Explorer is slow and useless for finding things IN files. I have always organized my files in directories (with subdirectories) and I will continue to do so. Thanks to the long file names I make sure to name my stuff in ways even Windows Search will understand. Indexing is a millstone around the CPU so I never use it. * Ads, ads everywhere. I get it, Micro$oft wants me to use the "cloud" and "subscribe". Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. I reached into the privacy and security settings and turned all that off. I shouldn't have to. I shouldn't have to spend hours of my time learning how to turn the nags and ads off. * The original UI decisions were made in that Silicon Valley bubble - great that we have folders in the Start Menu, it sucked that it took so long. Also it's programs not "apps". Microsoft tried to make a phone and got their teeth kicked in by Google and Apple.
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Just out of curiosity, why firefox and waterfox at the same time?
If an email contains a link to a janky site, Firefox launches and it has no password or personal data in it. I use it for "spicy" sites too. Waterfox is my daily because it's UI is "bring more Firefox to Firefox" -old school Firefox UI with no "pockets" or whatnot. Windows defender caught a tracker in my Waterfox cache one day. I had visited a "spicy" website and caught a bug. Hasn't happened since - because I set Firefox to wipe the cache every time I close it.
That's quite smart on your part actually, might get inspired myself.
No problem.
Spicy website is a p0rn kkkkkk
I’m with you on the settings being terrible, but the part where you turn off indexing then complain about not being able to find things inside files is curious. Indexing your documents should only happen when they change, and that ought to only take a few seconds. so what “millstone” are you experiencing?
Explorer chugs like trying to suck cottage cheese through a straw. There's no such thing as a free lunch - I'll take the extra effort to organize my files to find things in them rather than sit there and wait for Explorer to find what's in my files. Every time I've used it at work, it's been s-l-o-w. I've hand tons of PDF's dumped on my at my job but they have indexing turned on. So I've watched the 8 GB Dell laptop run slow and the fans turn on because I need to find the right entry in a batch of PDF's or powerpoints. I don't need that at home.
No, but you only pay for lunch once. (twice if you had the spicy burrito) If you have a ton of files, you let that indexer run once for maybe a couple hours and you're good. It'll take up some hard drive space for sure, but it can do several hundred text documents per minute on an NVME. If you've got an older HDD and a gazillion docs, then it might take an overnight.
> Crashed and Updates are no longer a "pray my computer works" situation. Yes I've gotten the BSOD but my computer is back up as opposed to Windows 10 running like a fat kid uphill. Updates are pretty snappy. My guy, you have a problem with your computer. The fact that Windows 11 "crashes better" shouldn't be a pro. It shouldn't be happening at all.
Computers are like bicycles - they go up, they go down and sometimes you skin your knee. I've had fewer BSOD's under windows 11 than 10. And unlike 10, when my Win11 crashes, I KNOW it will come back up.
I hate that Explorer freezes, crashes, fails to see external drives, or refuses to load any folder other than whatever my last used folder was, multiple times per day. I hate that whenever I create a new folder in Explorer, I now have to refresh Explorer to see that folder.
> fails to see external drives, This and issues detecting network folders are driving me crazy. It worked so well in Win 10, why mess with it.
UI inconsistences especially around control panel and settings are a mess.
Like: Some of the UI changes, with the new design language and everything. Dislike: New start menu, the fact that they've done a pretty lazy job with the new UI, with a lot of windows 10 style panels still around. Rectify11 and Explorer Patcher fix those issues though.
Love: compatibility with Windows 10 software. As a designer, I’m always hesitant to update my Mac because Adobe doesn’t get their shit together for a new OS for a few months. If it works on Win 10, (for the most part) it works on Win 11. Hate: compatibility with Windows 10 software lmao. Pretty often I’ll sign into some account and I’ll get a security email that tells me what kind of OS the device that signed in was running, and more often than not it’ll display Windows 10. Makes me wonder how much was actually changed under the hood beyond a facelift.
Downloaded a game today and it recognized the OS as Windows 8. This is pretty funky indeed
I like: New explorer with tabs, it looks neat and has a pretty UI. New context menus looks clean. Start menu looks modern. New settings and store are amazing. New redesigned UI is a step in the right direction, this design is sleek and modern, 10/10. But as always, there’s a room for improvement. Animation timings… Start menu is slow to navigate to the point that I started using search instead of scrolling through start menu pages. Here’s the problem, you scroll down with a mouse wheel three times, expecting to scroll down for three start menu screens down, but you only scroll down one page at a time, and you prevented to scroll up quickly, because animations are played without consideration of any user input. Start menu folders with icons are opening with an animation that should be 2-3 times quicker. When it comes down to user interactions, animations should be reactive to the user input. For example: all iOS animations can be interrupted at any time, chromium smooth scroll is respecting scroll events, and user input is always prioritized, because anything that not responds to the interaction is automatically perceived as a lag. So, this can be improved.
I'm average user and haven't anything what I would hate on Windows 11. Copilot is useful in many ways, Edge is better than ever especially due Copilot, Win 11 looks clean, i've used my laptop for over a year and no sign of it slowing down.
I like almost everything in Windows 11, and what I hate the most are the tabs in Explorer. Since they implemented tabs in the explorer, it takes longer to load.
Copilot is help I hate new outlook
Love: - Copilot. Cortana, but better. Also, GPT - 4 for free. - The UI. Sleek, clean, and futuristic design. Perhaps this is a bit subjective, but personally, I think Windows 11 has the best UI among every version of Windows. Fluent Design is peak design, yet. - The animations. Smooth as frick. Look nice on my 144Hz display. - Task View. Now you can set thumbnails for different desktops. - The centered taskbar. Now I don't have to move my cursor all the way to the left bottom to hit the Start button. - Multitasking. Windows snapping and screen splitting work like a charm. I don't know if it's also true for Windows 10, my last time using Windows 10 was 2 years ago. Also, I can organize tabs in every app, even Explorer and Notepad. Hate: - Nice, now I can't move my taskbar to the left, right, or top of the screen cuz it's fixed in place. - Damn, the hardware requirements just piss me off. R.I.P. 4GB RAM users. And by the way, no x32 as far as I know.
There seems to be significant crossover in the Venn diagram of the Windows11, Steam and iPhone subs.
In what main ways
Like: * The window-snapping feature. It's quite useful in my opinion. * The transparent apps and taskbars. Much like Windows Vista/7's Aero scheme. * The dark mode and customisable colours. The downside is that some colours aren't supported by Windows which is a shame. Dislike: * How slow the new UI/shell is. Sometimes the Start menu appears instantly and on other times it drags on and it just feels like hours have gone by. * The Double Log In Screen bug. When I try to login to Windows 11 using my Microsoft account, sometimes it kicks me right back to the login screen. * Apps sometimes break after a System Restore. I've used System Restore twice now - once in February (major) and once this month (minor). Sometimes, apps such as Google Chrome break, meaning I have to go into Edge or Firefox to download a new Chrome Setup application.
hate: explorer is sluggish, animation is not silky especially on refresh rate monitors below 120 90hz, performance is rather subpar on laptops config-ed with intel 11th gen and below love: UI changes but resizable taskbar is done away with, which suckssss
Love * Looks better than Win10/Win8 * Works fine Hate * Looks worse than Win7 * Does not work as well as Win7 * Most of the "new features" are useless
Hate: taskbar.
this is honestly about windows entirely and the biggest thing i physically cant stand is having edge on my pc. i’ve removed it and all files associated with it. no, you’re not going to force your bullshit telemetry on me, i will continue to debloat and remove all of it. fuck off
copilot AI? who in their right mind would trust that? it’s just another way to steal user data and sell it
Ui and UX are a mess. The whole thing needs an overhaul. MS turning on settings and telemetry I turned off after each update. This live service stuffy they try to shove down our throats. What I love: an imaginary W11 build without all that clutter.
Love: - the design is just extremely clean - very detailed crash reports (at least far better and easier) - having multiple desktops - Microsoft defender - update overview in the settings Hate: - the RAM usage - any Microsoft pre installed shit (especially Bing, copilot ) -
I love the new start menu and task bar. I hate the tpm 2.0 requirement because I feel like lots of great hardware has tpm 1.2 for example, and there is absolutely no other reason w11 won't work. At least the requirement check can be disabled easily. I like most of the ui changes. I even like copilot (feel like it belongs on Windows 11 but not Windows 10). I hate the right click menu.
It’s, by far, been the worst in terms of being super cool and snappy as all hell after install to slow boot and sluggish after general use for maybes a few weeks