Windows 11 [is trash] review
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People complain about every Windows release, especially media outlets. I have Windows 11 on the laptop next to me for testing, and the vast majority of complaints are overblown for clicks.
There are really only two negative points. The first is the simplification and modernization of the UI, but only if you're a power user. A lot of the menus that were a hodge-podge of 10 and 7 UI elements are now unified with a single UI. This is more cohesive and easier to navigate for the average user. The downside is that some items now take more clicks to access (ex. power settings) and others are gone entirely (ex. some taskbar customization). The moved items won't matter much once you get set up, but the few items that have been changed or removed may be a loss for some users (ex. anyone currently using their taskbar on the side of their screen).
The second negative point is the stringent system requirements. Some computers that are new-ish are ineligible for the upgrade, and although you can bypass the requirements, it'll be unsupported. I don't think this is the big deal people have made it out to be. If you like Windows 10, keep using it. It's still supported for years and isn't going away anytime soon. It's better to have a functional OS with new features instead of a bloated one weighed down by legacy support.
For positive points, I think there a lot. It's a free upgrade to start, and still works with 7 keys (even if unofficially supported). Overall performance is improved. By moving widgets to their own display, the live tile start menu mess is gone. A clean install lacks the unnecessary extras that came with Windows 10. The new UI is largely better (did anyone like 10's file explorer ribbon?) with features exposed in a more usable way (battery trending in the Settings app vs. Windows 10 having it in a command line utility).
I'd argue Windows 11 is a fairly small change overall, especially in comparison to some previous releases (8 and Vista in particular). Navigating the OS should be intuitive to a Windows 10 user, opposed to the re-learning required in the past. There's really not much of consequence to argue or complain about, so I imagine most media outlets will lambast the UI, as they do every generation.
Which version are you using? Home requires a MS account and internet. That's bullshit enough to call windows 11 trash.
Pro, works just the same as Windows 10 when bypassing (select "I don't have internet").
afaik w10 is only supported a few more years.
is it true that the ways of having names on your windows has been removed? I dont think that will be easier for normies, even the computer literate ones.
this is the continuous meme pushed by microshills. W10 isnt bloated because of legacy, its bloated because ms redid everything that worked, put in a totally new system of applications that are inferior to their predecessor (UWP) which has been a bust for near 8 years straight now, and theyre still trying to get people to use it. this aint happpenin, ms. never .
W10 would be really fast if MS would remove ALL THE NEW SHIT that no one wanted in the OS. proof: try the edition without cortana and the new frameworks, its just as fast as W8 and W7 were.
Old code isnt slowing down MS, its their talentless immigrants who MS fired employees for.
the ceo is an untalented pajeet hire too. he told employees to just skip meetings. he fired the QA team. ms is flailing and in the final years of people's use of their operating systems, nadalla just doesnt know it yet.
Moving the start menu and forcing the task bar to be a dock is just as major as W8 getting rid of it altogether. Vista wasnt a big ui change, it was closer to a "theme" pack, that otherwise kept the underlying system the same (control panel, start, and other mainstays of the windows operating system).
But most are not skilled w0 users because of its unfriendlyness to noobies.
Can you share the articles that youd read of media outlets lambasting Windows 7's UI? (Or even Windows 8.1?)