Why windows 11 is still unnecessary?
Have my views since writing that Windows 11 felt unneeded six months ago changed? Basically no, and here is why even though I tested Windows 11 ahead of time with the Windows Insider program. I was interested in taking another look because my opinion of Windows 11 had changed. Although it still tries to stay up with Windows 10, it has in certain instances. Windows 11's biggest fault is that it still feels less enjoyable and useful. As an illustration, in the Windows 10 settings menu, if you browse to Personalization Themes, you'll see a large, emotive icon listing all of your installed themes. I now enjoy the Windows 11 settings menu, but the themes feel more generic and less like an expression of your personality.
how to
personalize your windows 10 pc
but you can't really do that for windows 11. Because one of the things to personalize in windows 10 is the start menu and in windows 11 you still can't really do anything with it in windows 11 the start menu is just a sea of icons with no real rhyme or reason you can move them around and well that's about it sure we know changes are coming microsoft has scheduled start folders for release during the fall.But let's face it they've already botched those too one of the key visual elements of windows 10 is the ability to visually weight specific apps and folders by resizing them you can group windows 11 apps together together in a folder but that makes the icon smaller i mean how does this make sense at a company where accessibility has been a priority just let us resize everything icons folders the start menu itself i mean it might end up being ugly but it's r ugly look i'll be honest ii don't even use the start menu i simply hit the windows key type the name of the app and then launch it or i just use the taskbar icon itself speaking of the taskbar you still can't move it you can resize it you can't drag files onto taskbar shortcuts and launch them look i have no problem with the aesthetic if microsoft wants to move from windows 8's fisher-price tiles all the way to a clean orderly aesthetic with icons centered on the taskbar that's fine i mean i honestly kind of like it but microsoft edge allows you to vertically group tabs along the left or right edge of the screen so why can't windows in windows 11 microsoft added widgets teams chat replaced the search bar with a search icon and essentially got rid of cortanai'll be honest to me all of these are almost worthless i mean as a journalist i should use widgets and it's news and information i don't but i've set my edge browser to informative where i still get a full page of news stories every time i open a new tab the weather icon i mean come on it's always sunny in california right and i turned off teamschat ages ago it's just unnecessary in a world full of the real teams and zoom and google meet and i simply search via browser or just tapping the windows key as for cortana well yeah i liked her but now i have a phone or a smart speaker to replace her i've generally come around on the action center that's the cluster of shortcuts to different features down in the lower right hand corner of your screen windows 10 does provide more detail if you're listening to a bluetooth speaker for example it'll tell you but
windows 11's
organization is just better
thankfully now the clock appears on all of your displays but the calendar the calendar still doesn't really do anything it's just a desk calendar and it wastes space now let's talk about the windows shell in windows 11 if you right click a file you end up with this mess of choices with new icons for cut paste and rename which fortunately i've learned but then there's this second overflow show more options menu for resizing a photo and whatnot i mean why does this exist why isn't there a single unified menu for all of this file explorer i guess is his own problem that what a file is and where it lives is a little different in a world of teams and google workspace but microsoft at least seems to be recognizing this other thoughts snap view it's a subset of the fancy zones utility but it works wonderfully i'd also encourage you to tap the windows key plus h and try out windows dictation
it's simple it's effective and you can just do it for a few seconds at a time if you want as far as the browser is concerned windows 11 now allows you to designate a specific browser as your default with a single click it didn't before that's a step forward but it's still kind of ridiculous that you have to designate a specific browser for opening pdf files for example microsoft revamped the look and feel of the microsoft store app on both windows 10 and 11 and it's far better organized and more useful as a result microsoft also updated some of its native windows apps it jumbled up paint a tool everyone has used so that an entire generation had to relearn it microsoft also reworked photos releasing it with a buggy thumbnails feature though it later fixed it but photos cut out my favorite feature spot fix and left the useful magic select tool buried inside paint 3d a tool that no one uses honestly the strongest argument from windows 11 comes from the pc makers themselves which have made windows 11 synonymous with new pcs and especially intel's all their lake chip and its thread director tool otherwise it's probably fair to say that neither two under the hood selling points auto hdr or dynamic refresh rate have made much of an impact drr ups the refresh rate of certain tablets for improved inking and auto hdr adds hdr on older games without specific support but in our testing auto hdr didn't actually do allthat much now one selling point could be direct storage and the one game we've seen demoed for spoken game load times were cut to under two seconds that's big now microsoft has told us
About upcoming
features dragging and dropping files
onto taskbar apps these start menu folders we mentioned before live captions and more but they're not here yet well i mean even if they were the sense is that microsoft is spending as much time playing catch-up with windows 10 as it is in launching new features for windows 11. this is the way the system is supposed to work microsoft introduces new features windows complain or cheer and microsoft responds but you can't get away from it even after six months there just aren't many good reasons to upgrade to windows 11.
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