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I don't know, Windows 11 came with many things I've wanted for years:

- notepad with tabs

- shell UI with tabs, VT-100 support and ability to replace the shell

- Paint.net with AI

- even Windbg has massively improved

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With five tabs open in Notepad, since they are placed in the titlebar, there remains only about 1 cm of titlebar by which I can grab the window to drag it around. This area is distinguished only by a short vertical pale grey line like a pipe character, because it's not cool to have a border around any interface element any more apparently. So I often drag a tab off the window by mistake and have to put it back and hunt for the small part that's actually the titlebar.

Then there's the way they put search into a fixed floating window, which when you search upward sits on top of the search result, obscuring it.

Ahhh, tabs... it only took 40 years!

I sometimes think I’m the only person in the universe who doesn’t prefer tabs. I already have a way to manage multiple windows worth of content: my OS’s Window Manager. Why would I want every application I run to also implement its own custom window management—visually and functionally inconsistent from every other application’s custom window management?

I feel applications that do tabs are just like applications that do their own custom quirky File-Open dialog even though my OS provides a standard one.

They manage 2 entirely different contexts. When I want to check my mail, I know I just have to go to Firefox and hit the first tab; not cycle through 200 unorganized windows

Some window managers, such as Fluxbox, support "tabbed windows". You can group windows into one "superwindow" and then switch these in a titlebar. Maybe this is what the GP meant?

Screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/comments/bqg9tw/fluxb...

Meanwhile Notepad++ has been free for 20 of those.

And now we can't make the taskbar vertical anymore. I'm not sure I can make it another 40.

My number one grievance with Win11. Also, I think it's in the top 3 of all feature requests on Microsoft Feedback by votes. Yet, no movement. It feels so anachronistic to force the waste of space that is a horizontal task bar, in an age of wide (and still widening) screen aspect ratios. Microsoft's UX team is... not good at their job, to put it very mildly.

What do you mean by "ability to replace the shell"?

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