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Windows 11 has got to be the worst Operating System I've ever used in my life
I've never ever been this disappointed in a software product as much as I am disappointed with Windows 11. I've always held onto the current WIN for as long as I could, and last month I bit the bullet and thought I'd give WIN11 a go, and I'm regeretting it ever since. It's not even, "omg this is new, I don't know how to use it" type of frustration - no, the OS is a complete mess, it's unstable, messy, unprofessional, and the entire thing felt fake and dysfunctional on so many levels. It really makes my blood boil.
- When I drag the volume all the way down in the sound mixer, it doesn't mute the app, I have to click on the app icon itself
- When I select a lot of files, and I click in that little small gap in-between each file, it deselects all of them
- When I have a lot of windows open and I would hover over them to select one, it rarely catches it from the first try. I'd click the window I want to use and it never selects it
- If I have a file path selected in a window, I click away, and I click back again on that window, I get the drop down list of paths that lead to that path and I end up clicking on a completely different path that would take me out of the window I selected
- When I click on and out of a folder, it updates in the Quick Access bar and in doing so, it glitches the entire UI across all windows open
I could go on and on and on, this has got to be the worst product I've ever used. I have a couple big projects I'm finishing now, but after I'm done, I'm going back to Windows 10, and I'd stay with that until it gets hacked by Anonymous or something. My lord what a joke of a product.
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Simply because it has great features such as Task view which is pretty important to make a slide in Power point while finding reference
Windows is the worst operating system I have ever had the displeasure of using. I seriously do not know how or why people defend it.
Windows 11 sucks! Plus, they keep making it worse and not better. I had to turn off updates because I have something set the way I want and they change it, making it worse and making it what they want it to be and not what I want. Their news on Edge is almost National Enquirer quality with phony headlines that lead to a story that is basically, useless ambling. The legacy photo and music player are now frustrating because if you're a musician you can't add your own music without going through hell, and now photos won't let you name your photo unless you leave the jpg. in it on the gallery screen (it used to be in the properties but now it also has to show up in your gallery). This age of IT is just worthless. Sometimes, if you have a good thing, don't mess it up. Improve it, yes but still with the quality that made it great in the first place. When you strip everything away, you get an empty field of nightmares.
Well honestly Windows 11 may looks bad but acutaly Windows 11 is great especially if you're a gamer, student and worker since the fact that Windows 11 does have great feature for example Phone link, Game bar and Snapping tool which is very usefull for Students especially for collage Students and worker also gamebar is very usefull for gamers since you dont have to open any apps just to record, check your cpu, chat with friends, gallary and even Gaming Copilot so it may looks bad but very usefull
Holly **bleep** windows 11 its horrible and worst **bleep** ever, its insabely slow, slowed down my pc by a lot microsoft forcing ppl to get windows 11 is retarded af, not to mention the insane ammount of bugs and flaws has, why forcing us to use a slow **bleep** piece of **bleep** unstable garbage when we could use windows 10 until you actually make windows 11 work, im strongly considering switching to linux or iOS you gonna get it right up like nokia when they never migrated on Android and kept useless **bleep** windows mobile, thats whats gonna happen with ur **bleep** windows 11, force ppl to use something they dont want its at least retarded af this is my -25 star review on windows 11
Your detailed feedback highlights some of the common frustrations many users have reported with Windows 11, such as interface inconsistencies, responsiveness issues, and usability quirks. It's unfortunate when a major OS update introduces more barriers than improvements, and your experience underscores why many prefer to stick with a stable, familiar environment like Windows 10 until the new version matures.
I think the upgrades of Windows 11 break things instead of fixing them (apps, services, the menu, the settings etc) and apps offered by Microslop (Teams, Outlook, Clipchamp) are half baked (slow, bad interfaces, inconsistent operation).
Why break things that used to work?
When I select files i have to mess around with it so much just to select files
I agree. I have been using Windows 11 since day one and I have always tried to be optimistic about new features, updates and even occasional glitches. But I think I have had enough.
Here are some things that used to work but are now broken on Windows 11:
- Snipping tool. Once a screenshot is captured a notification would pop up to let the user process that screenshot. After one of the latest updates, that only works on the forth attempt for some reason unknown.
- (New) Outlook and Teams. Both are great examples of a badly designed application with a cluttered interface, incomprehensible functionality and really slow performance.
- Start menu. Version 25H2 of Windows 11 can proud itself of having the worst Start menu of all time and the sluggiest one, too. Generally speaking, the Start menu never was of much value to me and I do prefer the Spotlight of macOS over it.
- Updates. The whole Windows Update process is a mess. Most of the time, any new update either breaks things instead of fixing them or pushes unwanted features such as worthless AI or malware-bound news widgets.
- Settings. The struggle to get rid of the Control Panel in favor of the ill-designed Settings would even make George Lucas jealous of how long an ordeal can last.
Windows users need to speak up and their voices must be heard.
Unfortuately you are correct......Win 11 vers 25H2 is a pile of shambles.....take it from an old horse..the great mistrust puts it lightly with so many minor issues. I use a poor man´s Aspire 3, (should work and do the jobs) but it regulary hangs and has the Win update settings on, except I now I check any updates and choose when to load. The most annoying is when "print" is selected in the word/excel app, the notebook freezes. This doesn´t happen on an older notebook. More pain is the Acer aspire doesn´t shut down when it should, and this is a risky security aspect. I regulary have to depress the boot button underneath the unit. Is this really how MS has to work ? The other grubby thing is when the headphone is removed the notebook hangs. WHy ? I removed the Realtek app, reinstalled it as it comes with windows installed but still don´t work properly.
The mouse doesn´t double click on desktop files but works on-line. What on earth is going on ? My biggest gremlin is the desktop files gradually getting deleted and moved around other files for no reason. I decided to delete OneDrive and things have improved but the hunt for everything and where it is becomes daunting. I dread resetting windows (which I haven´t done) as it would automatically re-install onedrive which I don´t want more takeover troubles.
I think everyones confidence in Windows is being shattered, is putting it lightly. I´m getting on in life and gets harder when one´s eyesight is on the wane from trying to sort this out. Never have I been so badly handled and really should never come to this..
rj
