It was February this year when Windows 11 reached its highest-ever global user share among Windows versions, reaching 28.16%. A month earlier, Windows 10 had fallen to...
Unfortunately I’m gone be subjected to 11 at work on my company laptop.
And this is why they get away with so much bullshit. Think about how much of Windows 11 and Edge’s usage is coming from people that don’t have a choice because their workplace forces it (because Microsoft tells them they must).
To avoid another failure like Windows 8, they learned a decade ago to stop trying to attract people to your new OS with quality design and desirable features, because then you’d actually have to listen to feedback and give a shit what users want instead of what executives want to push on them.
So instead they further tied features together with security, and pulled the plug on support for old versions much sooner.
Because when your corner cutting and trend chasing fails to attract users, you can still hold a gun to their head and tell them “update now or be ‘unsecure’.” And business customers really don’t have a choice, there.
it’s a tend that had been an enormous boon for disrespectful design and dark patterns in the last 20 years.
The taskbar still cannot be pinned to the side? I stay with 10.
Still no properly customisable Start menu? I stay with 10.
Still refusing to let my older devices upgrade for no good reason? I stay with 10.
And a number of further reasons that make me refuse 11.
If you have admin access on your system ExplorerPatcher solves this
Looks like it would be easy for MS to allow this out of the box.
This is the issue with Win 11. You have to fix/remove so much crap.
One of the issues indeed.
Here’s a few more:
And so on and so forth…
Using 11 at work has led me to stay with 10 at home. I even disabled TPM in my bios so it is not “Windows 11 ready” or whatever.
Then, I’ll be moving to Linux, which I’ve already done on 2/4 devices at home.
Aaaand I’m the first Linuxbro in this thread which is new for me, so I feel like I should get some kind of certificate of achievement.
🏅
Thanks, I will display it proudly
Not being able to pin the taskbar to the side of my screen was one of the things that made me ditch 11.
Unfortunately I’m gone be subjected to 11 at work on my company laptop.
And this is why they get away with so much bullshit. Think about how much of Windows 11 and Edge’s usage is coming from people that don’t have a choice because their workplace forces it (because Microsoft tells them they must).
To avoid another failure like Windows 8, they learned a decade ago to stop trying to attract people to your new OS with quality design and desirable features, because then you’d actually have to listen to feedback and give a shit what users want instead of what executives want to push on them.
So instead they further tied features together with security, and pulled the plug on support for old versions much sooner.
Because when your corner cutting and trend chasing fails to attract users, you can still hold a gun to their head and tell them “update now or be ‘unsecure’.” And business customers really don’t have a choice, there.
it’s a tend that had been an enormous boon for disrespectful design and dark patterns in the last 20 years.