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As terrible as Windows 11 is compared to older versions, I haven't used Windows regularly in 7 years. Looking at Windows 11 with a brand new perspective, at actually looks decent. They just need to finish polishing it off (two different versions of context menus is the most obvious thing to me without doing any deep-diving).

I won't be going back to that spayware-infested/anti-user crap though.

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Yeah I thought that too (I use a mix of Mac and Windows). But no, Windows is still genuinely terrible. Win11 looks nice on the surface but as you noticed, nothing is finished. It's not just two different styles of context menu inside the same menu, even, which has to be a new level of UI inconsistency even for Microsoft. It's that the entire OS is half baked like that. Not just visually either: maybe I'm more exposed as someone developing for it but major bugs are everywhere.

I don't even care about spyware. It's not that hard to keep Windows clean these days. It's more the overall feeling that everything is half-assed. You don't get the feeling that anyone working on it is truly passionate about Windows anymore.

> Looking at Windows 11 with a brand new perspective, at actually looks decent.

Only if you believe the marketing and Influenza(TM) marketing bullshit. Every Windows user who I know and upgraded to 11 is majorly regretting it. Windows 11 is widely seen as the Windows Vista following Windows 10 by its users.

> a brand new perspective

I wouldn't have had a brand new perspective if I was a Windows user who upgraded (like Windows users who you know).

I'm essentially saying:

no Windows experience -> Windows 10, looks pretty decent

different Windows experience -> new Windows is terrible

(I have no idea what Windows 10 "Influenza(TM) marketing bullshit" is.)

I kept Win 7 up until the machine was choking. It's a shame they couldn't just update that.

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