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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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Yall are too polite. Windows is a piece of crap because they have infused it with all kinds of marketing feature, network presence detection (I.e. cookies/ Pixels to track your spending habits) and of course the usual bloat that always accompanied Windows. Remember the Registry? The integrity of that train wreck usually melts down within a year of a new pc purchase which uses Windows. No matter what anybody has to say about it...Windows is now the stepchild of pretty much every engineer that gets hired at MS. The 'soup' is now the community swill. What's sad, is that I still think of Bill Gates as the face to all these problems even though he has nothing at all to do with this abysmal chain of product version failures. It suggests the other CEOs are hiding out of shame of their next generation jalopy.
Now, Microsoft is a bureaucracy. They don't care about Windows. They don't care about you or me and our frustrations... They will fix the bugs when they get around to it. They STILL own the OS market worldwide and they have no reason whatsoever to improve on anything.I get why it can feel frustrating Windows 11 isn’t perfect and some users face performance issues, UI changes, or compatibility problems. But in many cases, these issues come from outdated drivers, unsupported hardware, or settings that need optimization. After updates and a bit of tweaking, it usually runs smoothly for most users. It really depends on your system and how it’s configured, so it’s not the worst for everyone, just needs the right setup sometimes
That is complete bull*** I never had a system that breaks software as often as WIN 11. Imagine working with Autodesk and after another update all the Autodesk products just stop working. You uninstall the update and everything works again. Autodesk patches the problem so you install the win update again. Everything works until the next win update that breaks everything and more again. And Autodesk is no small backyard company. Imagine working in a big design studio and in a matter of minutes all the work halts for another "quality" update from Microsoft. And everyone scrambles to find a solution to this problem. Most of the time it takes time to uninstall updates from each and every PC. And time is money.
Kind of makes me want to go back to Windows ME and upgrade it with all the Bloat of Vista
I have been a huge Windows fan for decades but I have NEVER had to deal with an OS that is so glitchy that it infuriates me. New glitches show up often.
My three fixes are soon to be put in place
Dump Win 11 on all my company's computers
Consider other operating systems and choose which one will become our standard
Sell all my MS stock
Never have I had to deal with a P O S-OS like Win 11 and I have been using Windows for decades. I am about done with it as will all my employees soon be.
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.
Much of what I had complained about seems to have been delt with. Yes they better do better with the upcoming updates, but even as crappy as the initial Win 11 was I cannot agree that it is so bad that I would ever go back to using AppleKiddie.
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
I'm a gamer and I specifically avoid all those things you mention and would remove them if I could. I use gr**nsh*t (have to filter this apparently to post my post) for screencaps outside of games and F12 for the built-in steam screencapping. I also had to install Windhawk just to be able to move my taskbar to the top because for some reason they want to force people to keep it at the bottom which is insane. Also if I leave my computer alone too long it randomly can't detect any mouse input and everything freezes and not even ctrl + alt + delete will work properly and I have to turn off the computer, losing whatever tabs and other things I had going on beforehand, like just happened to me now. It also very often fails to copy text when I do ctrl + c and other times just selecting stuff with the mouse randomly copies stuff I don't want to copy and causes me problems. It is by far the worst Windows operating system and I thought Windows 8. I also use libre office and many other programs from linux rather than anything Microsoft keeps trying to force me to use. Also the default system narrator is incredibly bad in quality and there's no way for me to properly add a CereProc voice engine or other actually good voice engine in a way that properly integrates with the whole system. The only good narrator is the ones in Windows Edge, but you can only access them in that browser, outside of that browser you get the really bad default voice. The only reason anyone who is a gamer uses Windows at all is because there's usually one or two games that can only work on Windows, otherwise Linux is far better. If it weren't for Edge's narration software and some compatibility issues of a few games I play with Linux, I'd never use Windows again, I hate it so much and resent everything they are doing to make the operating system worse and worse.
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.
Even Windows 10 is bad. There best operating system was Windows 7 and ever since then they'd have a cycle of worse, slightly better, worse. Windows 7 was great. Windows 8 was terrible. Windows 10 was not as good as Windows 7 but better than 8. Windows 11 is far worse than Windows 10. If the pattern continues than Windows 12 will be worse than 7 and 10 but not as bad as 11.
