11 is ok, but out of the box it needs more tweaks than 10 and they have been saying they'd bring back folder previews for YEARS and they haven't done it

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only feature that I'm missing from earlier Windows' is the desktop peek on hovering the lower right corner, otherwise GUI-wise it doesn't make too much of a difference to Windows 10. Or maybe I've just been using 11 for so long that I forgot?

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The GUI is annoying in 11, but that's really not the issue for most people. It's the constant barrage of "USE FUCKING EDGE" over and over and over, the treating the operating system like it's an advertising platform, not an operating system. It's the ever-increasing spyware, it's that they never learned that nobody liked them constantly re-installing Skype and Candy Crush even when you've uninstalled them in Windows 10 that they kept the same bullshit in 11.

My personal favorite to be pissed off about is that you're literally not allowed to make a local account in any normal way in Windows 11, they force you to use a Microsoft Account unless you know a bunch of PowerShell commands to interrupt the install process and force it to allow you to make a local account. Then, after you've already jumped through technical hoops to get a local account, Microsoft decides that the best thing to do is advertise at you again about how you shouldn't be using a local account and you should consider switching to a Microsoft account! Like fuck me, the anti-consumer "It's Microsoft's operating system and you just live here" has been kicked up to obscene levels in 11.

Those are the issues, the GUI is (for the most part) fine. Although I will say every time I use 11 I'm confused about where to find "copy" and "paste" because they decided to drop words for iconography. Like, I've never seen these icons before, how am I supposed to know that's the new "cut," "copy," and "paste?" It's absurd. However, I can manage to live with that, or change it in RegEdit if I really hate it that much. The GUI is annoying but the least shitty of the Windows 11 crimes.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with all of this, the new right click menu is so poorly implemented, it could have been so much better.

The edge bullshit is why I may go full Linux by the time windows 12 rolls around, and just boot up windows for gaming if I absolutely have to.

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

you can actually get around the local account thing with a windows pro licence instead of home not to defend it that's stupid and anti consumer and I hate that but just in case you didn't know they do harass you a bit less about local accounts at least with that so I got that as it was almost the same price as home for me anyway but yeah windows sucks I dual boot mint for that reason and prefer using mint but sometimes some things just only work on windows like bethesda games are just meant to be modded and none of the mod managers support linux there's sort of a workaround for MO2 but it's not great and fomod installers don't work

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

If you install Windows 11 and pull out the internet connection, it allows you to install with a local account.

In the pro edition you can even just select local account.

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

What are you talking about?
Sign-in Options - Offline account still works.
And you can just install pro and let it join a domain...

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Can you not still do that? I feel like I can still do that. Maybe it's an addon I have.