[gryf]

Despite writing tomes of scathing bitching about Windows 11, I have to say that the direction it's going in is the correct one.

All they have to do is kill off the mandatory cloud sign in everywhere, the telemetry, the crapware bundled with it, fix the S3 sleep problems, actually do some QA for a change, make the onboarding experience smooth as butter, deal with the buggity hellscape that is Windows Hello, fix all the stupid HiDPI weirdness, clean up at least 50% of the legacy shite hiding behind it and start respecting customers again and they will have a product.

Oh and fucking stick to one UI for a bit.

Edit: honestly I would love to use Windows on a daily basis. I lived through the glory days of Windows 2000 and it was consistent and dependable back then. Every step forward since has been two steps backwards.

[Baeocystin]

>clean up at least 50% of the legacy shite hiding behind it

...but that legacy shite is where me and the rest of the IT folks can actually find the options that have been removed from the 'improved' interface!

[UI_at_80x24]

>I lived through the glory days of Windows 2000 and it was consistent and dependable back then. Every step forward since has been two steps backwards.

I can't tell you how often I've repeated this.

Windows UI/UX was at it's pinnacle for Win2k. I miss it.

[basch]

Same era but the predecessor to Metro. Encarta 1999/2000. High contrast, and overall extremely easy navigability.

[colpabar]

That's a lot of things they still need to change - what are the good things about it? I use windows 10 at home and it's fine, but it feels like it's slowly becoming 11 without asking me. There's an ad on my lock screen now.

[gryf]

It's really fast so you can fuck the crapware off in record time.

That point is in jest but it really annoys the hell out of me that the excellent work the core windows guys have been doing is being compromised by the veneer of diarrhea over the top.

[hdjjhhvvhga]

> All they have to do is

Well, you basically list major problems we have with Windows in general. 11 is not that different from 10 in that respect. So it's hard to say "the direction it's going in is the correct one" - I understand why they are pushing this stuff down our throats, but they are not winning users. Whoever can switches away.

[prometheus76]

whoosh

[trollerator23]

lol. yes. Specifically, the whole cloud sign in SUCKS

[bradford]

Disclaimer, MS employee here, but I've got to say that the cloud sign-in is one of my favorite features.

The amount of time I spend worrying about and preparing for a hard drive failure has significantly gone down.

I'm able to have one device at home, and another at work, and they stay reasonably in-sync with one another.

I'm able to check things from my phone (even if I can't be productive on the phone, at least having access to progress made on my home machine is important).

I see others commenting here about how hard it is to create a local-only account on Windows 11, and I don't want to dismiss such criticism, but I'm personally never going back to a local-only account on my devices.