State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?
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It's so out of touch, people hate it.
People want a simple, clean, minimal, consistent OS that does not have anyone's interests first except the user. Windows 11 is a very, very long way from this.
Honestly Windows 95 is closer to ideal than Windows 11.
The state of Windows is: disaster.
On the other hand YouTube tries to serve me content I want so maybe thats just the algo talking.
However, they will continue to use it so MS does not need to worry about them.
I've no idea about leaders as those do not write here much. As for "influencers" - my golden rule is to research subject I am having doubts about and pay zero attention to what so called "influencers" say.
Clearly leading something alright
[ ] — Yes, I'd welcome a half-hour distraction from the thing I need to use the computer for right now!
[ ] — No, I want to get my thing done now but then be confused about missing or new buttons at random intervals for the next six to eighteen months!
Provided I only largely use my PC for gaming.
...and you're mostly right.
Valve has made Linux gaming a thing. So, even normies are trying it…
Do you declare "Year of the Linux Desktop" when market share is more than 50% or when the rate of conversion is 2%/month due to some market mechanism?
"Gaming is good on linux now.(except for kernel anticheats)" isn't it. In the gaming sense, that only puts it close to with Windows and with the extra hassles otherwise Linux is still behind.
You have to recognise and value privacy to look to Linux.
As everyone points out when talking about Linux usability, it's fine for your grampa who just uses the email client and browser, but those users are switching to tablets, en masse, anyway. It's obviously fine for technically savvy users who are willing to deal with the periodic breakage or other hassle.
Importantly, It's just a bad experience for users who require hardware, software or something else that tablets don't facilitate, but aren't interested in looking through stack overflow posts and reddit threads to see why the 6 year old tutorial for getting their video editing software to work doesn't apply to the distro they just installed because they couldn't figure out how to install their video card drivers on the other distro. And why does that program they used to use to control their firewall not change anything anymore (which to them just looks like the firewall doesn't work, so they can never research their way out of the problem?) And how do I [insert the bazillion other problems that are non-issues for people with the background knowledge, but for everyone else, frustrating, time-wasting brick walls that probably cost them more in lost billable time than multiple copies of Windows 11 Pro.]
I've been using Linux since the 90s but I still don't use it for a lot of my media work. It's just too much of a PITA when I just need to satisfy my use case, which has nothing to do with the OS.
Even the commercial distros like RHEL are just, comparatively... janky. I really wish it was easier to integrate more interface design expertise into FOSS development. The workflows are just super different. This is why commercial products have product managers that can objectively balance and coordinate the efforts between design and development. I think we've gotten to a point where more of the FOSS crowd sees the benefit of competent expert UI designers, but making that practically useful is a tough nut to crack.
I also believe that's the future both Microsoft and Apple bet on. Otherwise they wouldn't have let their (once) flagship products became what they are now.
I had Ubuntu for 8 years and it was as you describe (things broke all the time and every time I had to spend hours searching forums for arcane command lines etc). With Bazzite everything just works and nothing ever breaks. KDE with Wayland looks and feels amazing. I love love love the experience!
90% of the people I know don't need any software that isn't either delivered via the Web, or limited for purely business reasons to an 'APP™' for mobile phones only.
The remainder of the possible uses of a "computer" are mainly video editing and non-casual gaming.
So if Windows and macOS continue to drag their reputations through the mud, Chrome OS, the Linux Desktop, is the most likely beneficiary.
You're overlooking a whole universe of business users. With the proliferation of tablets, smart TVs and phones, I'll bet many of those users ONLY user a computer at work. The vast majority of (mature) small-to-medium sized businesses lack the technical agility, expertise, time, money and/or initiative to switch from their existing legacy system of Windows file shares, outlook calendars, etc. and likely don't see a need to try. I'll bet most of those companies haven't even had a serious technical strategy conversation about the new ai features/changes in windows beyond "Phyllis in accounting discovered if you change setting X, then the stupid copilot thing won't get in the way when you're trying to run the TPS report macro." Even if they can do whatever they need to do in a browser, getting everybody in the company on board with the change and then figuring out what parts of their business break by doing so isn't something they generally feel compelled to investigate.
I don't work in the software business anymore-- it's easy to forget that technical expertise isn't built-in to your workforce in the overwhelming majority of businesses, and most of them are way too ingrained in their procedures to jump ship to the latest SaaS solution that would do it 100x better once they figured it out.
That said, it's still a threat to Microsoft that no company founded today or in the last 5 years will have such a tight coupling to Windows on the Desktop, not even if the founding IT person is a big fan of Windows and deploys a Windows laptop to every desk. They may use Microsoft platforms, but things like Outlook, SharePoint and the tools a new company would subscribe to are perfectly usable on the Web for a large group of non-software-developer users. If one optimistically predicts that Apple sorts their stuff out, the Mac provides a non-web alternative to worry about too (as long as you don't need Excel to perform worth a damn!)
Note: I deliberately drew a distinction with "on the Desktop" as I feel like things like Outlook, SharePoint, and especially Azure and what used to be called Active Directory, those things are still both popular and very sticky (hard to "just" migrate off of) even with brand new businesses. I suppose this is how Microsoft has hedged, since they could lose the desktop OS market and still do all right if they can keep businesses using those products. A Microsoft without Desktop Windows, looks to me kind of like Oracle.
One glaring example is Music, where the playback controls were moved from the top of the window (which is now empty space) to a "transparent" panel that overlaps the content in the browser. I mean... WTF.
If you think that adding icons all over the place to menu items RUINS it, I think you’re either in a MacOS “purist stickler” category (which John Gruber is in), or you’re hyping things up for clicks. Because no sane person would call this ruining the menu system.
And new icons “comically sad”? Someone call the whambulance. I saw the new icons, and they are fine. Sure, they are different. But I am not laughing and/or crying about them, and I bet most people don’t find them comically sad either.
I wonder how much research went into Windows 11, or 10 or 8 for that matter, and to what ends that research was made.
Article title: The Windows® 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (1996)
These days Operating Systems (desktop and mobile) have mostly stagnated; even open source Unix derivatives are strongly committed to backwards compatibility, and have reached an island of mostly stability.
I hope to see in the future something like Plan 9, who was an effort to reimagine what an OS could be. BeOS brought innovations, but those have become commonplace while Haiku still has growing pains.
I yearn for weird again, but I don't have the skill set and resources to design/build a weird OS. Then again, standardization is good for progress, and I much prefer that the de facto standard is something free like Linux, and not proprietary Windows or MacOS. Standards should be public.
Now, the same way Windows serves Microsoft’s AI investments, Apple serves a nebulous corporate goal for inimitable (read: too unpredictable/unreliable for competitors to copy) Liquid [Gl]ass user interfaces at the expense of clarity, and launch speed at the expense of stability.
I’m not sure if Steve Jobs would have complained about the market capitalization - but he certainly would have executed product improvements more cleanly.
It’s not yet the year of Linux on desktop, I don’t think - but we get closer every year.
For me it is. I was already considering going back to Linux for a while, and MacOS Tahoe pushed me over the fence. Got a Thinkpad with Linux as a replacement for my MacBook some months ago and don’t regret it yet.
It is if you want it to be. For me it was 1996 - been doing great on Linux since then.
If Apple's slide continues, computing will recede back to its hobbyist/academic roots, I guess.
Not for me. Coincidentally, I spent half a day yesterday with Gemini trying to install Linux Mint so that it dual boots with my Windows 10. Unfortunately - no matter what I did (and I tried a lot of things), the installer "couldn't locate an existing system installation" and warned me of losing access to my data should I continue.
Now, I am using computers since 1980s, and I said "Nope, I don't have time for this". Now imagine a casual user trying to fight with GRUB.
my pc is not even that old, its ryzen 9 5900x with rtx 3080 and 32gb ram. however it is sluggish compared to my m1 pro macbook pro
That day is today (assuming you don't play games with kernel anti-cheat).
Id rather have something mainstream, like Fedora i dislike but know its daemons better, but tough luck, it seem.
Still, it's so fragmented. If I want a server, I have two families to chose from and two exactly solid choices. I'd I want a desktop for work - 2-4 solid choices.
But desktop for gaming? Well, it's where "well, it depends" starts.
I'd imagine most people are waiting for SteamOS to become that one obvious solid choice, but Valve probably don't want to do that without Nvidia support not being the way it is today (and they probably don't want to do support either way, so they might never do it either way).
I don't want Arch-based system because it will be PITA with upgrades. I like rpm-based systems (and use Fedora at work despite my reservations), and to be honest I'd prefer Ubuntu.
But instead I need to hack it like it's 90s. Up to and including custom kernel modules.
Like..... come on people :)
When Windows 2000 rolled around and I saw how stable it was, I went out and bought it to put on my gaming PC. Another friend from work laughed at me and told me how terrible "Windows NT" was for running games until he saw how smooth Starcraft ran on it.
Yeah, Windows 95/98/ME were terrible.
PS - Yes, Skeuomoric concepts age out, like Floppy Disk-Save Icons, but the concept still has merit. It can help "ground" the experience.
The overreaction known as "flat" design (AKA no design) has fortunately started to recede. Still... some derelict "designers" are still deliver Advent calendars instead of usable applications.
There's so many options on what icons could be for the thing they represent you'll never please everyone, why is forwards a right facing arrow and backwards left facing? (Is this swapped for right-to-left languages?) Why not representing Z-depth away/forwards towards/back? What does reload have to do with rotation?
I feel similarly about the classic Mac OS: excellent interface and UI guidelines hampered by its cooperative multitasking and its lack of protected memory.
Windows XP and Mac OS X were major blessings, bringing the NT kernel and Mach/BSD underpinnings, respectively, to home computing users.
I really really liked windows 95. It rarely crashed on me even though I used and abused it extensively. It lived running smoothly, tolerated tinkering and uni files shenanigans.
The i loved 7. To me it was a pinnacle. All comfort, no crap. Win 10 was less convenient (even if safer), and it was a constant struggle with the subversive, hostile vendor.
Windows 95 is closer to the ideal, I agree with GP, although to me the closest is Windows 7 tbh.
This was back when you'd hook up a new printer or other device to a Windows computer, and it would detect it and prompt you for a driver disk. During that same era (and well past it, into the 2000s) if you plugged something into a Mac... nothing would happen. You had to go hunt down a driver for it and initiate the installation process yourself.
How times have changed.
> “We have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven’t been upgraded,” said Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke on a Q3 earnings call earlier this week, referring to the overall PC market, not just Dell’s slice of machines.
And that's ignoring the 500 million that can't upgrade due to TPM requirements or whatever.
https://www.theverge.com/news/831364/dell-windows-11-upgrade...
It took about two and a half years for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 10 in usage (release in July 2015, overtook 7 in January 2018). It's taken more than 3 for Windows 11 (released October 2021, overtook 10 in June 2025), and it only did that with four and a bit months left until support for 10 ended (compared to 3 years for 7). And the number isn't consistently trending downwards for 10 anymore. It's a mess.[2]
> Many reasons why IT departments may not have upgraded things
Running an outdated OS which isn't getting security updates is against regulations in a lot of places. I'd imagine all the major corps were already done doing that by the time support actually ended.
> In fact, the ones who haven't upgraded kind of are the people who are least likely to know about what windows 11 is like.
And thus the most likely to be pushed to upgrade by Microslops lack of understanding of what consent is. They're just going to push the button that says 'Next' and have Windows 11 pushed onto them.
[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/a-bunch-of-steam-pl...
[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
Together with what I hear from people who use Windows 11, it sure looks like a lot of people are unhappy with what's on offer. I doubt Microslop are willing to publish the relevant numbers or make surveys to figure it out, since that's not going to tell them what they want.
Macworld published some estimates regarding Liquid Ass, and they look very red indeed.[1] I doubt Apple are in a hurry to publish anything about that either.
[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/3028428/ios-26-is-a-massive...
There is no actual evidence for anything. Nobody is running actual surveys of any scale, since that wouldn't benefit anyone. There is only circumstantial evidence, and that continues to point to Windows growing worse.
> From my quick investigation on user satisfaction surveys of windows 11, it pretty much seems positive
And from mine it doesn't, and I have no reason to trust whatever Microslop says.
> it pretty much seems positive, but they all seem pretty limited in scope
Hmm. I wonder why.
> I'm guessing most people are mostly indifferent and don't mind windows 11 and just use it.
I'm guessing most people bailed on computers and started using phones and tablets instead, since the user experience continued to be hostile. That's what I'm seeing from non-gamers in non-work settings.
And if most people are indifferent, but a minority fucking hate it compared to what came before, that's not good. That's bad. That's a regression from what came before. The indifferent remain indifferent, while the angry multiply.
> I would guess this is what Microsoft sees also.
I would guess they don't want to see. It's not in their financial interest to see. They have telemetry out the fucking arse, but don't care to use it to improve the user experience. They have better things to use that for.
I think that hackers want a
> simple, clean, minimal, consistent OS that does not have anyone's interests first except the user
...and those are things that I think are good and I want - but my interactions with normal people (which constitute the vast majority of Windows' userbase) consistently indicate that they have different priorities, such as cost, ease of use, familiarity, software compatibility, and a "modern" appearance (which often directly goes against actually good UX principles).
Windows 95 was a terrible operating system in the classic sense ( phony multi-tasking, no memory protection, no security protections whatsoever -- any process could ready any file or any piece of memory it wanted).
I wrote a bit about this in an old comment:
> They have a lot of staff turnover too, and each generation of new SDE has less of a clue how the old stuff worked. So when they're tasked with replacing the old stuff, they don't understand what it does, and the rewrite ends up doing less.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472300
Also, a little bit after I left, they eliminated the SDET role. I have memories of encountering many SDETs who didn't know what they were doing. But the good ones kept the developers honest. Getting rid of a parallel org structure dedicated to testing for regressions etc. would certainly seem like a good explanation for a quality dip.
All the rubbish from the last 20 years - ads, OneDrive, Copilot, Office upsells, Candy Crush in the start menu - it can just disappear, leaving a pretty stable system that hasn't actually changed much.
Apart from the awful control panels, anything else you don't like is probably replaceable. I really love startallback.com which brings back the regular start menu and lots of other little fixes.
Obviously everyone deserves a computer that doesn't try to sell to them CONSTANTLY, and I wish Windows were better out of the box. But it doesn't take much adjustment to get there.
You could also sail the seven seas and run an AutoKMS script, though that might (and probably will) include some malware.
Linux desktop environments remind me what TempleOS would look like if it was designed by committee.
Only difference is on Windows nobody wants those "features".
Gnome for example has been working hard to simplify things (maybe a bit too hard?). The gnome settings panel is significantly simpler than win11 and osx dito.
If you want to dive deeper there is a separate tweak app (not as simple), no reason fiddling with .conf files.
Make that 64 if you’re obliged to run Teams. I wonder how many power plants the US could retire if we all stopped using it.
If I could, MS Teams would be the second tool I’d eject out (after Outlook and Exchange). But the company I work in is tied to MS 365 and will not give up on Teams and its useless cousin SharePoint.
Same goes for day one Windows 10 (they probably didn't touch the relevant parts). I remember having to deal with a Windows 10 machine on an HDD, and it was mostly fine after it booted, but even clean installs on more recent version are just horrible. There's probably been some optimisation done which works fine on SSDs but just thrash HDDs, and HDDs as boot drives just aren't a thing anymore (within margin of error), so it didn't matter.
The fact that they've managed to throw so much bloat on top that even SSDs start struggling though, that really is something.
Much worse than it was only a year ago.
Similarly, Windows Update used to consume ungodly amounts of CPU time because the update system would write a multi-hundred megabyte text log and then spend forever compressing it for upload. Then they remembered their own ETL system and switched to much more efficient binary logs.
Firefox also has problems on HDD, I remember it locking up for minutes at a time doing cache maintenance until I switched permanently to SSDs.
But many people who use Windows wouldn't want to move to a considerably new platform like macOS, which works quite differently. There is Linux, but then there are compatibility issues and driver issues and other things that are not great for the casual average user.
It feels like Windows could have been better off without being free, but being something like a buy once, keep forever solution, like the good old days. Today it has just turned into a complete toxic pit of mess that tracks you in every little thing you do and works against you to make sure that it maximizes profits for Microsoft and its partners. The usability is completely destroyed, alas.
The app is similar to what’s going in on windows.
Where that becomes frustrating is when you have a computer that isn’t well supported by Linux, things don’t work, battery is bad, you have to look up for ways to fix them and so on.
But if the « driver » support was as good as on windows, people could switch in 2 seconds.
My university computers ran Ubuntu, we were not computer nerd but civil engineering yet everyone adapted very quick.
You don’t need canonical enterprise support.
If nothing is already broken, Ubuntu isn’t that different from windows. You got your 10 app icons, and a button to shut down the computer.
And the file path ? Everyone used the standard file picker and had no issue. I guess it defaulted to the home directory or desktop, whatever the case we just put all the garbage there in folder like we used to do in windows.
The previous time he meaningfully interacted with a computer before that was via punched tape containing ALGOL in the early 1960s. (When I first manually "decoded" those tapes 30 years later in the 1990s, it kind of blew my mind. I had just learned Turbo Pascal. Looks very similar at a high level.)
WSL is a far better developer environment in Windows even for dotnet based development. I use it at work. It is fine.
Windows OS on the other hand is a mess. There are dedicated keyboard shortcut (win + c), keyboard buttons, buttons on desktop for copilot. Copilot is almost on every Microsoft software. I'm not getting the appeal of copilot at all.
Also, I have a personal gripe with a non-standard way of placing the Fn key - first of all, why keep it close to Ctrl, why? and on top of that, Lenovo & Microsoft and every other manufacturer have them in different positions on the keyboard.
On my assigned machine, I have it swapped so Ctrl is in the lower left spot because otherwise I'd lose my mind trying to figure it out between all the machines I swap through. (Emacs users will have to use something else to put Ctrl where they want ....)
I don't even use any advanced config, just bare-minimum config for the system, enough (project-specific things handled by nix).
Personally, I've worked pretty hard over the last few years to make sure that I can easily switch to a different OS. This means avoiding relying on Mac and Windows apps as much as possible, and most importantly having all of my data in portable formats that do not tie me to any specific software.
There are quality issues, some severe, but no worse than iOS or MacOS. Honestly Windows 11 performance on my $300 mini PC exceeds latest iOS on my $1400 iPhone 17 pro.
Instead of shaming Microsoft, we should all be a bit more introspective about performance, latency , quality control and the overall decline in software.
1gb memory for a browser tab is more shameful than a Copilot button on the taskbar
1. Microsoft doesn't make their money from Windows anymore. They make their money from services, like Azure and whatever they are calling their web-based Office this week. Windows is now mostly a telemetry-collection system for them, not a product.
2. People who hate Windows don't have a choice. Regular people are issued a PC and its OS from their employer, and can't change it. Consumers who buy low-end laptops for school or hobbies aren't going to pay twice as much for a Mac. And outside of HN, a vanishingly small number of people are even aware of Linux or other FOSS alternatives, much less have the ability to install and use it.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/microsoft-kills-wind...
I never seen them in Portuguese schools, where the expectation is still families get to buy computers and most classes are offline as always.
I'm hoping now that Microsoft seems like they might get serious about kicking people out of the kernel after the cloudstrike incident, kernel level anticheat may go away which will pave the way for Linux to completely take over.
I used to be a big windows fan but now I can barely even use my pc half the time SYSTEM is just churning disk reads/writes making everything slow or edge is secretly running in the background even though Ive closed it five times. The few games with anti-cheat are killing me right now as I'm fully linux on laptop/servers
I am trying it out today first and then reinstalling it with Linux. It seems its fully supported out of the box except the cam and fingerprint scanner: cam I never use, fingerprint scanner would be nice but I hear it is basically impossible to get working if not supported (and it is not).
1) please stop making dark patterns preference onedrive backup and let us run a local file backup cleanly without needing to de-install software
2) please make the charming folded complex flower-like shape an alpha channel overlay so we can make it lie over a background colour of our own choosing, not the one(s) you pre-package
one of them is "stop innovating" and the other is "innovate more" -I think the union over them both is "be nicer"
There is a third one: work better with Apple so that outlook handles photos and icloud mail oauth sync better, but there is a blame game with two parties in that one. An amazingly high number of seniors seem to want apple devices (iphone, ipad) to work with Windows home compute, and no amount of me suggesting they get a mac makes them want to get a mac "office doesn't work properly" mainly the issue. (thats nonsense, but they believe what they believe)
I guess as a senior sysadmin before I got absorbed into cloud I'll say they're right! Legacy backup is found, I just discovered yesterday, in control panel I believe and it's called Windows 7 "File History and Restore".
Implying you're one thousand years old and using a legacy system if you don't use Onedrive.
And, if you did do a network attached install, your actual Document paths now lie UNDER the one drive anchor mount and so you have to un-do things, in order to be cleanly able to delete one drive: If you don't do this, your files can disappear because they are on local disk, under a one drive protected directory which will be wiped.
Oh, and it does registry edits to wire One drive into office, so there's all kinds of sneaky paths which make this visible. And these are >75yo, declining faculties people. It's hugely unfair.
(I volunteer for a local not-for-profit assisting seniors, older people, with their ICT burdens)
Do they use Office-Office (or Microslop Copilot 365 xXxQuickScoperz42069xXx or whatever it's called today)? Is there any reason they can't use Libreoffice and the like, or does that fail instantly when they try it for whatever reason? Or is the idea of using not-Office-Office rejected instantly and you can't even get them to the point of trying it?
My grandma's been on Libreoffice for 10+ years, since she doesn't use any of the fancy features of actual Word and Excel. In reality, she'd probably be fine on Wordpad (although she would need an actual spreadsheet program, but even Calc is overkill for her, and it works fine anyway), so I fail to see why seniors would complain about not being able to use an office program, assuming you can get them in front of a Mac running one.
Mostly, they are addicted to menu position and one specific thing word does in showing you content, but different for each person.
I am doing the "how do I make libreoffice look like Word" tunings for font and menu, and so far, I think its close enough I could re-visit this with them but getting them to even agree to look at my own MBP is a struggle.
Older people feel they are losing agency, control. I try not to just tell them what to do. It's better if they decide, than if they give up and ask me to decide for them. The organisation I work with emphasises that older people have a right to dignity even when they're wrong.
There is a cohort happy on linux. I just chose not to work with them because I saw the cohort with a mixture of iPad and Windows as more interesting. (I am a BSD and Mac person mostly)
Fair enough, and I'd agree with them that the button should just stay in the same place, but given that they're on the same version of Office YYYY still since they bought that version whenever, the button doesn't actually move for them, even though the later versions of Office have probably also moved it.
I have been the one touting alternatives since I was very young and foolish (in particular advocating for the free Apple suite), but I have run into enough problems I couldn't solve that I don't bother anymore.
Microsoft is winning with Office because everyone else is more incompetent than them; it's simple as that. If someone could come up with a true, cheaper competitor, everybody would switch, regardless of the file format arguments. In fact, the generalized use of Google Suite for the simple stuff shows that it is the case. When people insist on Office, they generally have a good reason, and you should trust them.
Unless they just can't handle the buttons being in a different place, as ggm said, I can't see what functionality the average user is missing. Fair enough that the Excel wizard is missing their macros, but most people are far from the level.
What are these problems you (or anyone you've met) couldn't solve? I have a hard time imagining what that could even be in the first place, since the scope of required functionality is so small; again, my grandma could probably use Wordpad if it came down to it, and from what I see other people using Word for, that seems to be true in the general case too.
The actual design of the Windows internals has mostly remained unchanged and continues to be improved. This is not much different than Linux being a design from the 70s. The critical bugs in Windows are due to newer additions to that base -- not the base itself.
But what everyone really hates is the "modern" technology has been piled on top of that Windows NT legacy not the legacy itself.
I find myself having to use the old control panel dialogs less and less -- but I'm also happy that they are still there.
I like Ubuntu.
Fedora and Linux Mint is my considerations at the moment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761061
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750358
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656998
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011569
etc
Windows 7 later on in its patch cycle was more stable in my opinion. Each time a version gets stable they make a new version full of new bloat, bugs, stability issues, crap most people did not want or need. Near the end of that versions life cycle it gets more stable and debloat scripts work better, then the cycle repeats and new junk comes out. Stability seems to leap-frog. Win 7 decent, 8 crap, 10 decent, 11 crap. This was a thing long ago with Unix kernel versions. I probably just jinxed it. 12 will probably summon the anti-christ and four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Probably also vibe tested.
I am led to believe from marketing that A.I. has all the answers and with Microsoft having the greatest A.I. don't they have all the answers?
I apologize in advance for my dumb.
For instance, how do you change the key repeat delay in the modern UI? I have looked and I actually can't find a way to change it. I have to use control panel.
Just looking at the modern UI is an eyesore, there is so much empty space, a menu that should be a 600x400 rectangle takes up the entire screen. The information density is comically low. I have to scroll up and down this giant monitor sized list to find the one thing I am looking for. It's horrendous.
Settings is a slow, bloated mess, as you stated elsewhere missing many settings, and was in general designed by schizophrenics.
A primary reason for the sorry state of software today is the absolutely delusional priority that software should be "pretty" vs it being functional.
Send all the UI/UX wizards packing, give them a Starbucks apron where IMO they belong, and watch software usability and customer satisfaction improve over the next 5 years.
They've been 'transitioning' away from the old control panel since Windows 8, and they're still nowhere near done. On the contrary, when I do find myself on a Windows machine, I just jump straight to the old settings rather than jump through the hoops of the new settings, since I don't have any confidence in the new settings to do anything when I need them to (honourable mention to Windows update. That's worked mostly fine for me, other than the two times it broke and just refused to update anything until I did some manual fix. All it needs now is an 'Never update automatically. Only update manually' button, but I don't expect Microslop to understand what consent is quite yet).