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Overlooking all the bugs, the biggest problem with Windows 11 is there is no way to have small task bar icons like every other previous version of windows. Somehow they think that grouping all your file explorers together in an icon, so you have to perform 3-4 clicks to open what you want, is easier than just clicking on the title. I switched back to Windows 10 yesterday and hope to see further progress on Linux GUIs and games so I can safely make that switch.

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Mac users have hijacked the ui design in the company. They have absolute control. This is why windows 10 uwp ui sucks so much and is so out of culture with windows users.

There is a Microsoft vp who did a post on this and how he must retrain new designers on why most of their impulses won't work.

I'm a designer and use Windows. Not a big fan of designers who ram their idea of what good design is down our throats. You as a designer have to think about your existing user base and keep in mind how they work, their muscle memory and not taking away power user features etc.

Either they only tested with new users or somehow think that legacy users will die out soon - so let's copy MacOS because that's what all users like apparently.

But maybe the designers did raise these concerns about alienating existing users, but their warnings were ignored by the C-Suite.

Hopefully more Windows apps will be supported by Linux via Wine or maybe what Valve are doing to support games will also support other Windows apps? Haven't looked into it yet.

I do wish the OS supported more taskbar features but you may want to look into Start11. They've rewritten the start menu and taskbar.

At least they added tabs to explorer finally, so for that specific taskbar icon it's no longer an issue

Except it still opens new windows all the time. There doesn't seem to be a way to force it to stay in one window unless specifically dragged out, like how browsers work.

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