Windows 11
So this weekend my computer offered to upgrade itself to Windows 11. I let it go ahead, because there shouldn't be anything left on my current laptop that requires much swearing and effort to get to work with newer iterations (the shift from XP to 8 was... interesting).
Not entirely convinced so far. Some of this is just a matter of getting used to it, but so far there's one change that is seriously annoying. I'm used to right-clicking on the tool bar to get a menu that allows me to go to the desktop with one more click. That doesn't work any more. Off to Edge to find out how to fix this. It turns out that one is now expected to use a tiny bit of tool bar at the far right. Yes, it may be a single click rather than two. It's also a lot harder to hit with the mouse, at least if you have flaky hands.
Don't like the new start menu, since it's lost the ability to put shortcuts into named groups. I found that extremely useful, and am sad to see it go, but at least the "you will lose this facility" list before you click "accept" warned about this. I've gone and deleted various apps that I Do Not Want. I am an Old and do not want TikTok, FaceBook, and Instagram. I've deleted Amazon Prime, mostly to avoid temptation, and Disney because I'm not likely to want it, even if it isn't on the "fire and sword" list.
I expect it will have found new and exciting ways to annoy me, because it's Windows. But so far it doesn't seem to have broken anything badly. Mirror of https://julesjones.dreamwidth.org/672011.html, where it has received
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Not entirely convinced so far. Some of this is just a matter of getting used to it, but so far there's one change that is seriously annoying. I'm used to right-clicking on the tool bar to get a menu that allows me to go to the desktop with one more click. That doesn't work any more. Off to Edge to find out how to fix this. It turns out that one is now expected to use a tiny bit of tool bar at the far right. Yes, it may be a single click rather than two. It's also a lot harder to hit with the mouse, at least if you have flaky hands.
Don't like the new start menu, since it's lost the ability to put shortcuts into named groups. I found that extremely useful, and am sad to see it go, but at least the "you will lose this facility" list before you click "accept" warned about this. I've gone and deleted various apps that I Do Not Want. I am an Old and do not want TikTok, FaceBook, and Instagram. I've deleted Amazon Prime, mostly to avoid temptation, and Disney because I'm not likely to want it, even if it isn't on the "fire and sword" list.
I expect it will have found new and exciting ways to annoy me, because it's Windows. But so far it doesn't seem to have broken anything badly. Mirror of https://julesjones.dreamwidth.org/672011.html, where it has received
comments. Please comment there.