BIGGEST upgrade yet!!! The Upgrade: Shorter date, tweaks here and there and now you can drag n drop icons from the start menu to the taskbar. Much Inovation
Don't worry. The devs are busy working on win12 which will feature nothing new and reverse every change they have done so far, similar to how they initially released win10 and win11 :)
@roccociccone597 i think This taskbar has a different code. because when you customize the taskbar using third party apps, it just changes it to legacy version aka Windows 10.
Yeah it's insane they still haven't added that. I wanna keep my taskbar at the top. Also it's good they are adding some of these small new features but I feel like it should have been there by default or early updates. Also one thing they should add back is batch editing details of files in file explorer. Since Windows 7 to 10 (and probably also Vista) for example you can select 10 music files and write in the details panel that they are electronic music, then it updates all 10 of them. Same with other when photos were taken etc. Now you can't edit info of any file. So they should add back this feature with better batch editing capabilities. And also an option to quickly add album cover to selected songs through file explorer that would be good.
Unpopular opinion: start menu is fundamentally bad compared to Gnome/macOS, even launchers for tiling wm like Fuzzel People prefers just because they used the entire life Windows 8 start menu could be successful if they have done right
What i was looking for , was the option to make taskbar thinner, just like what we had in windows 7, 8, 10. It was a nice option that gave users a little more vertical space. And they took it away in Windows 11.
Over 3 years later and we still cannot make the taskbar smaller or move it... Seems I have to keep using explorerpatcher to fix the problems that Microsoft refuses to acknowledge.
I don't think it'll be like that if it reached the stable branch, this squares with colors for me are more like placeholders for initial release, if I'm not wrong this is hidden si it's not actually functional.
A windows should looking consumers satisfaction by Microsoft. They flopped over the system they created on that has started mind blowing down site. Inconvenient layout system makes sense to be done horrible the inconsistencies.
Windows is moving towards looking like a mobile version of itself. Damn I have a PC, Give me what a mouse would not something that looks like a launcher
It's why people still develop 3rd party apps for people who want to fix there windows personality when Microsoft cares about features people may never use..
Damn we are so cooked when people get hyped about this, you could do this on Linux since it ever started, just the damn compatibility and no one will use windows.
useless keyboard shortcuts for switching between apps in the taskbar... and to hide/show an icon??!! (bell icon). Is this really what MS can do in 2024? Where is the auto dark mode?
Still isn't good enough. They also gutted out and compatibility for functions for shell that have been in the OS since NT first existed. If you wanna customize it be more functional like Windows 10 then it's "too bad", trying to even force it with third party software makes the shell almost broken since the old functions are gone cause Windows doesn't want people changing things anymore even if you are on Pro and have legit functional reasons to want your OS a certain way. This feels like Windows 8 again trying to cater to handheld users and normies instead of leaving room for a functional work space. It's just more and more inconvenient with more and more telemetry to spy on customers. So they can force you to stay within their closed off environment they are trying to build while also selling off your info to advertisers. Microsoft is becoming a joke.
As usual it's a pile of crap because none of the designers knows what the others are doing and often, they don't even know themselves what they are doing and why. And I did not even mention bloatware and telemetry spying and the total mess of where all settings are located, and the restrictions Microsoft is imposing on what to use on your own legally bought OS. Imaging working the whole week on a bell icon showing or not. It must be the most exiting job out here, isn't it. And then Windows 11 is unstable. All offered solutions have never worked for me. The only possible reinstall is that is working is swapping the boot and system disk with a previously cloned one.
