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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.
49 Replies
- stefanogioliCopper Contributor
I'm unhappy of Windows 11. After a lots of update I found myself with a OS that does not recognize Bluetooth of others devices, USB port, where my smartphone is plugged in. I have to install Linux OS to do that. WHY?
- KaydenyoIron Contributor
Microsoft has increasingly integrated features (like apps, services, and even promotional content) directly into the OS. This can be frustrating for users who prefer a leaner, more customizable system and don't want features they consider bloat.
- ValentinasopSilver Contributor
The introduction of features like the Taskbar centering, Start menu changes, and the mandatory use of Microsoft Edge as the default browser might have contributed to your dissatisfaction with the level of control over the user experience.
- soumdg663Iron Contributor
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.
- RenatoUguzCopper Contributor
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.. - Jared_BernardCopper Contributor
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.
- arcrichCopper Contributor
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
- jordibaresCopper Contributor
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. - ElexoCopper Contributor
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
- MattN1275Copper Contributor
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.