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I was hoping for Windows 11 to finally have a consistent look, not have two settings, and merge the Win32 world and the UWP world… Alas, from the screenshots[0] it looks like the split continues :-(

[0]: https://twitter.com/goranmoomin/status/1404856884767592451

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It is a terrible situation now, but if I could decide, I would boot UWP to hell. For how long does it exist? Must be nearly half a decade. I still did not use one useful UWP app. Nevermind their design is quite lacking. The new setttings are an abomination. I don't want weblinks everywhere that are completely useless...

I mean, it's an early leaked build. I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced, which is why it hasn't been updated at all.

(I work at MS but not on Windows and I haven't tried 11 at all.)

I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced

I really doubt that, Explorer is a big application with a ton of extensibility and features that apps rely on.

Explorer isn't exactly good compared to other file managers of this era, but honestly if Microsoft would rewrite Explorer in this time - you could be assured it would be utter garbage.

> I mean, it's an early leaked build. I predict that the file explorer specifically will be completely replaced, which is why it hasn't been updated at all.

I really hope that _replacement_ will be as feature complete and useful via keyboard as the current explorer. UWP UI components tend to be unnavigable via keyboard.

For example I really like old Win32 listview behaviour to just type in the item name to select it.

FWIW, we also had early leaked builds of Vista and Win8, everyone complained about those, and precious little was changed between those early looks and the final release.

really? early Longhorn builds looked waaaay different from Vista in my opinion.

Sigh. This is one of my consistent complaints about Win10.

The UWP world is being merged into Win32 via Project Reunion, most likely Windows 11 won't have anything left of the actual UWP runtime.

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