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Feedback on Windows 11
I've been a Windows customer since the beginning. I was doing computing back on the TSR-80, when we still saved information on audio tape. However, with the changes in the last few versions of Windows; I feel I can on longer use a Windows product.
I've been using a Windows 11 system for several months now, and I've hated every time I had to use it. With the increase in non-optional "optional" and non-removable features; I've decided that it's time to move onto a Linux based system.
Sincerely,
a former Microsoft customer.
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Many long-time Windows users find the changes to the user interface (like the new Start menu and taskbar behavior) jarring and less intuitive than previous versions.
Well, we are working with customers and w11 systems everyday and this started to be plain horror..
Every morning including weekends we need to connect to some w11 PC and repair mess what "newest upgrade / update" made. Starting from printing, scanning, using network drives.. What was trival 15 yrs ago now is complicated beyond reckognition..
So frustrating - specially how to explain the customer who doesn't need to know anything about PC, why was something happened - of course - "we are the ones who doesn't know how to setup the system(s)"..
Yeah, sure..I cannot describe how frustrating Windows is these days. I just had the 24h2 update to my OS, which I had tried to delay. First I tried to see if there is a way to not allow certain parts of the update, as I don't want Copilot on my system. The Windows support staff member said I had no choice but to install the whole thing and then uninstall the parts I don't want. Then my computer updated and now my Ubuntu Linux subsystem is broken! I had many programs plus a great deal of important data! Now it's either all gone or inaccessible to me! I tried the wsl.exe update to the Linux subsystem, but it doesn't appear to have helped.
What i hate about Windows 11 is that its trying so hard to look like MAC OS... I hate MAC OS... when MS gives me the option to make W11 keep the same look of W10 i will make the switch...
Until then i will keep using my good looking, reliable W10...
Why remake the wheel 🛞 if it already worked and was loved by everyone...
Microsoft please bring back the old look or at least give us the option to change to the old look.
An IT guy that loves your products
Having used Linux for the last 25 years and MacOSX for 18, over the last 4 years I have been using Windows 10 and Windows 11 again and have been surprisingly good in some areas but, I can't believe we can't mount MacOSX volumes natively, the same registry problems exist, a two-tier interface approach that dilutes all the good effort and design on Windows 11 and a myriad of little things that really need to be addressed.
Come one Microsoft, you can do a lot better than this.I don’t know about anyone here but ever since I have downloaded the new W11 the edge pdf reader has been rather buggy it at times it doesn’t read or when it dose it goes in between the lines , reads stuff from other parts of the document and even weirdly shift to the bottom of the document randomly. Is thare a fix to this or some work around?
other then that though I love the new OS
So much stupid Fk on windows 11, where to start; The task bar not being movable is by far the worst thing about 11. The fact that you get notifications on the lock screen that say "Private" and then you click on it, and it has you log in, but then there's no actual notification, and it just opens settings for notifications is huge Fk waste of my time. The fact that when I "Shutdown" the pc, it doesn't actually log the user out, then I start up my pc, I don't have enough memory available to start a Hyper-V VM because the user that was logged in when I "Shutdown" the pc is still Fk logged in, so I have to switch users, log them out, then log back in on my user then try to start the VM again. The log out process is ridiculously Fk stupid now too, rather than clicking the user and clicking sign out, first I have to click start, then I have to click the user, then click some stupid Fk ... button that's hard as Fk to see, then I can finally click log out, and if I accidently hit switch user then I have to log back in and do all of the above again. I also have do all of that before I "Shutdown" to avoid the previous issue with VM's.
Windows 11 pro Fk sucks.
- This is the wors Windows ever.
It makes me and all colleagues in my company so ineffective and pieced off every day.
Together with new Outlook --> disaster!
The nicest look non-user-friendly experience!
Milos - Grammer company- Yes, I forgot also to mention that New Teams is also s...t.
In every application we have now 1 step more for regular things we are using on daily base (quick example - downloading photos from Teams conversation....)
lightsenshi54Agreed. Microsoft removes features without asking users if they want to keep them. For example, I move the taskbar to the left of my screen where it takes up less space and allows me to maximize the vertical space on my monitor. Microsoft took that feature away and now you are stuck with the taskbar running across the entire bottom of the screen wasting screen space.
I identify with your pain as well as the many other similar comments. My home computing started with CMOS and using W 11 at work and now with a new laptop with a disc drive for older software that I still need. I think I can deal with change and always learning new systems and software. What I don’t like is spending time being forced to use software that now take 2 to 3 steps instead of 1. I realize that MS has multiple ways of doing 1 thing and that is fine, just make the ways to get to what I want do hidden in an option. “E.G. I need to figure out how to bypass the Home button to just get to where W10 opened.” I don’t know programing, but it seems to me that if you already have W10 why can’t the W11 just be the same on the front and different behind the scenes? If people want a new skin let them choose…I just want it to be secure, run fast, store more, and shift smoothly. I like storing things on my PC, I don’t want my info ~documents~ automatically stored on the cloud. A backup hard drive works well.
My PC background: “ozzy” in 1981 and then a Kaypro II with 4 drives so we could convert CMOS to DMOS (family of engineers have to modify everything). 1994 was a IBM ThinkPad. Today just replaced my 7 yr old HP Envy 17.5 with a Lenovo Yoga 16. Going from CMOS to Windows 11 means I am used to change. And if I didn’t live surrounded by stop signs, and my knee didn’t bark my convertible I would still have a 6 speed. My upgrade uses paddles when I want to have fun…yeah, I can change but…
What an appalling system is Windows 11. I am at my wits end trying to understand it and use it as I did Windows 10. It is slow, little works as you would expect it to, there seem to be many more meaningless (to me) options, the inconveniently-positioned Task Bar. The fact that I had to buy a new computer before Windows 10 support ran out is black mark against Microsoft as far as I am concerned.
- I started building my computers before Windows. I used DOS commands and a black and green screen. So I feel (as many of you here) that this is another Vista or Millennium. I had my last system hard drive crashed and I just wanted to buy a laptop. No set up ... "Plug n Play". I wasn't given a choice on what edition it came with. I got 11.
NOT user (very experienced user) friendly. I fear I'm in for a long drive down the "update highway". I didn't know anyone who had updated nor used 11, so I had no idea, except rumors, that made me skeptical.
When I say user friendly, just getting to this site to write this feed back caused a "blue screen of death" which I haven't seen in years. So the fact that I went through all the hoops to get here should tll you how disappointed I am.Last night I got another forced update that shut down everything I was working on. And the reason again seems trivial -- now "fun facts" appear on the locked screen, which I've disabled again. So this is the second time in a month!
Same here,Seagreen1810; I started on the MS-DOS black-and-green screen on an old IBM Vendex in the 80s, and I also miss the plug-n-play ability to add more memory or graphic cards myself. And if those computers crashed, sometimes they could be hotwired.
Aside from the subscription-based software, the thing that really irks me is that so many of the so-called advances aren't really technological but are merely aesthetic. Sure, the processing chip gets faster, we get solid state hard drives, and more GB of RAM, but applications and things like photos also require more storage space than ever before, so the computer capacity and the need for it increase in tandem. And those are the real changes! All the other changes are, when you really get down to it, just the plastic casing and the look of the icons, so not really technological advances. To me, the main differences between computers today versus those 20 years ago is that now we can't own our software (as it's all subscription-based), own or write CDs or DVDs (as it's all subscription-based), or customize by adding memory or graphics cards, etc. And it doesn't escape my attention that all computers, whether Apple or Windows, are ultimately manufactured by Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese company... Not saying that's a problem, only interesting that Windows has taken on Apple's fad-based business model and they're both made in the same place.
I would switch entirely to a Linux OS, as lightsenshi54 said, if so many of the tools I need weren't only available on Windows.
