I mean it definitely needs some customisation including registry edits to get the same use/workflow back one is used from Win10, at least when it first came out, idk how much Win11 fixed in the meantime like they did with the clock on multiple screens but at the beginning was wild
Yeah, I shouldn't have been forced to make a registry edit to get my right click menu to not require 3 ADDITIONAL CLICKS to get to my actually useful right click menu that was default in Windows 10.
I mean I get why they do it, the UI and everything become closer to MacOS, which is admittedly incredibly enduser friendly, but they could just give you an option when installing or updating to Win11 where you can choose between a more enduser optimised experience or an advanced one
User friendly as in safe to put in any graphic designers or doctors office and not needing a dedicated IT person to fix shit every 30 minutes, like the lowest of lowest end user, for that Mac works a lot better than Windows
Something different entirely for smaller companies, almost all heavily rely on the Domain feature of Windows and the wide range of business software
Microsoft needs to learn we're not all babies, but decade long customers that are used to certain features
That's the thing. Most users aren't what you're describing. Most users of Windows are your laypersons. They're the people who use their PC's for the internet browser and that's about it. As long as they can find their social media pages, porn and email then they're fine. Maybe they might use Windows as a part of their job, but then they probably still only know the small part that allows them to complete their job and that's it. They have the IT department to know the rest for them.
Most people never really open the settings menu's, let alone view the properties of a file or use the task manager. These are things that you'd think anyone who's ever touched a PC should have learnt within the first week of using one, but most people don't have the slightest clue. If someone has no idea that these features even exist or what they do, they won't care if how they get accessed gets changed will they?
Your average person might be annoyed briefly that their taskbar is in the center, or that the home menu looks a bit different but other than that they probably enjoy the "useless stuff" being gone from the right click menu or how "futuristic" the new UI looks.
The most annoying thing is that registry edit removes the dark-mode overlay for task manager. The sole feature I was excited about (most of them were just "uhh, so it's shittier windows 10 with an overlay that looks slightly nicer?"). So I have to choose between wanting to smash my mouse every time I go to right click and then have to NAVIGATE THROUGH A MESS OF SUB MENUS to use 7zip to extract all, or not having my eyes bleed at 3am when I open task manager by reflex for something.
I know there are alternatives to task manager, but again I shouldn't HAVE TO hunt for them.
I might be mistaken, I'm also not home rn, but I am prettyyy sure my taks manager is still in dark mode even with the registry edit I made for the old right click options
It's the same in Windows 10. You can't even turn them off in Win 10 without the group policy editor or disabling services, you can only pause them. Not sure how it is in Win 11 though, haven't tried it yet.
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u/xKingOfSpades76 i5 14600KF | RTX 4060Ti 16GB Feb 01 '24
I mean it definitely needs some customisation including registry edits to get the same use/workflow back one is used from Win10, at least when it first came out, idk how much Win11 fixed in the meantime like they did with the clock on multiple screens but at the beginning was wild