Finally upgraded my machine to Windows 11
First impressions:
-Mixed on the new taskbar. I don't have an issue with it being centered. But one of the more egregious aspects of it are the automatic resizing of the taskbar tabs, which forces the rest of the buttons to move. In theory this shouldn't be a huge deal, since I haven't actually misclicked yet, but one of my pet peeves in modern UIs in general is the location of buttons dynamically being pushed around into a different spot. iOS in particular is very bad about this, and I'm not happy to see it creep up in Windows. There doesn't seem to be a way to natively turn off the individual tab resizing yet.
-The new Start button/feature is fine with me since the main start menu was all but unused in Win 10 anyway. I had mostly been using the search feature as the go-to for apps for a long time now.
-I like having the widget thing on the bottom left tell me the weather outside. That being said, it was WAY too much work to figure out how to remove the MSN feed. I absolutely do not want any kind of news slop feed on my desktop.
-On that note, the usual bullshit and bloat that starts on Windows machines (Why would I need a LinkedIn app on a desktop??). Nothing new here for Windows. Just have to remove it.
-The settings area is much cleaner and more polished than Win 10. A lot of times in Win 10 I just found myself going back to the old control panel, but this seems much better.
-The Explorer UI in general feels like an improvement over Win 10. Being able to right-click into powershell in Explorer right out of the box is nice
Anyway,
Pros: Generally cleaner polished UI, much better settings menu than 10. Upgrading from Win 10 was seamless and painless. Many of the cons are just issues with modern Windows in general and are not worse than Win 10.
Cons: Questionable UI decision with the individual taskbar tabs resizing, run-of-the-mill Windows widget bullshit and app bloat.
-Mixed on the new taskbar. I don't have an issue with it being centered. But one of the more egregious aspects of it are the automatic resizing of the taskbar tabs, which forces the rest of the buttons to move. In theory this shouldn't be a huge deal, since I haven't actually misclicked yet, but one of my pet peeves in modern UIs in general is the location of buttons dynamically being pushed around into a different spot. iOS in particular is very bad about this, and I'm not happy to see it creep up in Windows. There doesn't seem to be a way to natively turn off the individual tab resizing yet.
-The new Start button/feature is fine with me since the main start menu was all but unused in Win 10 anyway. I had mostly been using the search feature as the go-to for apps for a long time now.
-I like having the widget thing on the bottom left tell me the weather outside. That being said, it was WAY too much work to figure out how to remove the MSN feed. I absolutely do not want any kind of news slop feed on my desktop.
-On that note, the usual bullshit and bloat that starts on Windows machines (Why would I need a LinkedIn app on a desktop??). Nothing new here for Windows. Just have to remove it.
-The settings area is much cleaner and more polished than Win 10. A lot of times in Win 10 I just found myself going back to the old control panel, but this seems much better.
-The Explorer UI in general feels like an improvement over Win 10. Being able to right-click into powershell in Explorer right out of the box is nice
Anyway,
Pros: Generally cleaner polished UI, much better settings menu than 10. Upgrading from Win 10 was seamless and painless. Many of the cons are just issues with modern Windows in general and are not worse than Win 10.
Cons: Questionable UI decision with the individual taskbar tabs resizing, run-of-the-mill Windows widget bullshit and app bloat.
