No wonder it sucks so badly.
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I had Windows 11 on my gaming PC for a while and it's on the laptop I use for work. I've never been aware of or used any widgets. First thing I did was set it up to approach Windows 7, split my start menu up, show text, move it to the left, turn off all the shit. I do 80% of my computer based work on Linux anyway, the work laptop is for interoperability with normie business. KDE comes mostly set up how I want already.
Widgets were a funny thing for Android 2.0 people to brag about to Apple people in 2010. No one cares anymore.
Last time I saw an actually neat widget on Windows was some weeb turning his desktop into a Persona 4 menu.
I've not touched Windows widgets since the first iteration eons ago. They're just not useful enough to be worth my time.
Non-Windows related widgets built in games on the other hand can be rather handy sometimes when done right.
World of Warcraft would be the peak example of that, you can make the UI into literally anything from minimalism to fucking cancer rave party.
Widgets become irrelevant after 2 things happen: you age passed 12 or you've used win7 for 5 minutes.
Literally open a single program, widget is in the background and can't be seen, went back to ordinary post it notes in 2009.
I use open shell to turn the ui looking like win2k
I've been using the predecessor classic shell since 2017 for windows 10 and haven't even had to update it since. It has just simply worked over all major updates with literally zero issues and I get my W7 style that I like.
I just wish that it could change everything to not be retarded, but alas.
Widgets were a thing for windows vista.