So, to cater to the maximum number of users at once, Microsoft applied a data-driven approach to find out which features to add now, which features to add later, and which to completely avoid.
I call bullshit, because nobody uses the “modern” devices and printers interface in windows 10, because it fucking sucks. Everyone goes to the control panel instead. In windows 11, you have to use the “modern” interface, and it drives me crazy, especially because the old, fully functional, and reliable one is still in the OS, but Microsoft decided to hide it/make it a PITA to get to.
I’ve been using ExplorerPatcher to correct this and it works pretty well.
Is there no fix for this? I hate having the taskbar on my main monitor and ive been looking everywhere for a way to move it to another monitor. =/
wait, did they do away with the primary monitor designation?
isn’t that like the only thing that makes a “primary monitor” special - the taskbar? why can’t you just set another monitor as primary?
I don’t use win11, if it’s not obvious, lol
So i’m an idiot and you literally just solved my problem. I just set my other monitor as my main and the bar moved over lol. Thank you.
lmao I love when it’s just a dumb little thing like that
you did make me realize that that may not be quite so obvious anymore, though, with how they constantly change menus and setting names around. how many other things that we’ve learned over years & years of using Windows are just different in future versions, or not possible any more. and how many of those things were ever obvious settings in the first place, rather than ‘common knowledge’ learned from years of familiarity
It’s still there.
“When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge.”
This is such utter fucking nonsense. They already have to deal with the concept of a “client area” that encompasses variable-sized screens and (worse) the multiple-monitor situation. Movable task bar is trivial.
They didn’t just rewrite it, they rewrote it in
fecesReactThat’s quite an article to say they forgot about it after re-writing the task bar for no reason. It’s such a basic expected feature.
just MS things. changing things for no apparent reason to make it worse to use and also remove existing features that people actually liked
Probably written by CowPilot
So Microsoft is hanging on the coat-tails of KDE, copying the enshitification from KDE3 to KDE4, 17 years later?
I guess the AI writing windows 11 code keeps getting the taskbar wrong.
laughs in KDE
Plasma is everything I used to wish Windows’ desktop could be, but isn’t because of… honestly I have no idea what they’re thinking over there. I am so glad I dumped that trainwreck. Love everything KDE <3
TLDR: We rewrote the taskbar and didn’t bother implementing it.
You also can’t add folders as toolbars anymore.
The amount of bullshit is incredible. The DE sets the windows position. The DE tells the apps what’s the “usable” desktop area. It worked for decades. And now “you can’t imagine the amount of work”
Fuck you microsoft. Not that I care anymore. Even your excuses are pathetic.
Most windows products get slightly shittier with each new release.
I miss the old days, when the opposite seemed true about every other major release, though the early bars were low so that was straight progress for 1.0 through 95.
Join team Linux!
So many people at work are having frustrating issues with Windows now.
It takes so fucking long to start up. Sure, you get a desktop and can open a program, but it just keeps locking up repeatedly for a good 20 minutes while whatever bloatware is running in the background during startup.
They cram OneDrive down your throat and it has constant issues.
They put so much shit in your way, in the name of “productivity” it makes your actual productivity worse.
FUCK COPILOT.
It’s the one drive cramming that really gets me, well also changing the right click context menu to hide cut and paste, wtf.
But seriously, not letting you move the Onedrive pin down the hotlinks sidebar out of the way? Extremely annoying.
Kill it in the registry.
