More info about it here: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/13/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-new-layout-to-organize-your-apps/
I love how microsoft never learns their lessons.
Amazing! Reading this headline made my bazzite partition grow by 2 whole disk drives!
Oh, dang. Laughing in KDE Plasma.
I die every workday when I have to boot in windows because our CAD doesn’t work on Linux. On the other hand it makes switching back to plasma at the end of work feel as sweet as day 1! I don’t feel like I’ll ever take it for granted.
Holy hell, does every Windows 11 device require touch-based input soon or what?
Looks like they still haven’t learned their lesson from the Windows 8 days…
I have never actually used windows 8 but I was on a Win 2012 R2 server earlier today and it’s much much worse than Windows 11. So they have learned something at least.
It looks like the little windows you’d use to organise your applications in Windows 3.1
bunch of fucking interface designers so deep into their shit that they’re forcing everyone to chase the UX meta and play ranked competitive UI when 90% of everyone is just trying to be casuals and play what they’re accustomed to so they can unwind at the end of the day
“yes well you see moving every interface element on your computer to a totally new location results in a 0.0001% improvement in the average user’s workflow, therefore: bite the pillow, changes are coming, we’re the experts you dumb schlubs!”
I like the phone link integration. I’ve never been a fan out auto-populating app folders though.
Where’s all the ads though? They’ve gotta be thinking about turning one of the folders into a recommended apps folder or something dumb. They’ll sneak something in somewhere.
I actually liked how the start menu works in Win10, with the rearrangeable/resizable tiles you can put wherever and categorize however you want. That was closer to what’s pictured here, but this is still worse.
How do I get that back?
(…I actually liked Windows 8’s Start Screen as well. I understand this puts me in the minority. Everything else about the Win8 UI was a five alarm dumpster fire, but I liked having a big colorful full screen app launcher that could be arranged in any way you wanted.)
How do I get that back?
you can change the kde (linux) launcher to look like that
Ugh, fine Microsoft. I’ll finish my migration to Linux this weekend.
I tried it but stopped once I realised there was no hdr support :(
Depends on your desktop environment. HDR works just fine in KDE.
Someone made a post about enabling HDR support on Linux a day or two ago. Times have changed, and you might want to look into it again.
(I don’t have HDR monitors, but it works on my OLED Steam Deck.)
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. It literally only exists on a single desktop environment and even then it’s practically beta. On my TV it just shows everyhing as green and purple when I enable HDR.
I love linux and want it to keep improving but man people need to stop circlejerking linux so much when it comes to people using windows when it suits their needs
There is HDR support. At least Plasma 6 supports it.
Some games support it on windows but not Linux. The list is small. That said, windows HDR support is garbage ime. I don’t feel like there’s a good option that’s set and forget in any case.
Plasma/wayland integration is coming along but it’s not there yet for HDR in gaming.
I just said screw it and live without it. Forgot i cared after 20min.
It takes some fiddling, but I’ve been using HDR on Linux since Plasma 6 came out. If you don’t have an AMD GPU it would probably be really difficult to set up though.
I use Wayland/Plasma6 with a 6800xt and it just works out of the box (OpenSuse TW)
Was this a call for help or…?
Can’t miss what I’ve never had, suppose I’m lucky there - HDR might as well not exist (in my mind) until it does exist on GNU+Linux.
not the home screem
if had to use windows at home i’ld screem too.
not too surprised they didn’t change that.
With more room for ads, I hope?!
i assume that’s what the sidebar is for
The sidebar looks like it’s dedicated to phone access?
it is, that was just me trying to be funny
My bad, I got whooshed
"Why are you using Firefox? Didn’t you know edge is better?
Are you sure you don’t want to try edge?
I’ll fuckin murder you if you don’t launch edge right now. "
-windows these days.
Can write reskin Windows 11 to look like 95/98?
Cuz that would be cool. Just hide all the bullshit. Have a functional desktop again.
You can’t rewrite windows to look like that, but you can make linux look like this:
That’s awesome.
What the fuck is the point of the start button in the middle? Like, did they forget why the space to the right of it even exists.
I actually use it like that. I dont really see the reason pepole hate it so much. Geniuenly a better place for it (mind you im only talking about placement. The design itself is something else ). Since generaly if you use start menu you focus on it to launch something so it might as well be in tge middle of your screen.
Yeah, I moved that back the minute I upgraded to 11. It’s much better in the bottom left.
That change was absolutely idiotic. It reminds me of that time Apple changed the scroll direction. Who ever asked for any of this?
I’ve used StartAllBack to get the start menu exactly how I want it.
I dread having to upgrade at work, I set the group policy to deny the upgrade for the moment. They won’t allow me to use ASB.
Aw that sucks. My biggest issue is the thickness of the new bar. Wastes so much space
Oh god yes, you can modify it in the registry (or you used to be able to) but then the date/time gets fucked up. I hate W11 so much
I like w11, i just hate the taskbar
I couldn’t get past the Taskbar long enough to not hate it unfortunately. I also missed quicklinks, which I use a lot.
It’s actually ideal with an ultra wide I have come to realise.
I was just pissed at my PC for “Update and Shutdown” and returning to my PC with it at the lock screen. I think this might be enough for me to leave windows.
Fam, jail that windows into a gaming partition and either get a Mac if you aren’t a computer nerd or use Ubuntu if you are. My computing quality of life improved greatly when I didn’t have to use Windows anymore.
Mac has a terrible UI though.
Who even plays games that don’t run well on Linux/proton these days?
You don’t need to be a nerd. Just need to watch a vid or follow ubiquitous guide on how to partition a disk or install second disk. Installing and running Linux is easier than windows these days with most common distros.
The learning curve is easier than the one for each windows update too. At least for plasma, i would assume gnome too.
Still, some enterprise class software only running on windows is a reasonable excuse(for the user). Also not everyone has the drive space or can afford extra hardware. Obligatory privilege check ig.
I play games that don’t play well with Linux. Sims 1 & 2 are just straight up broken.
So my Linux PC is actually my WinXP retro gaming PC but Linux is dualbooted for when I want to do more modern stuff on it.
XP is a fine OS
Only issue is lack of V Sync for 2d games and the desktop. Which is why it would’ve been nice for Linux to be able to run the Sims 1
This is why I use Fedora for everything except gaming and MS Office.
It’s not as bad as people here are making it out to be. It actually might even be an improvement. It’s only for the all apps tab, and it organizes apps by their purpose, and you don’t have to click the folder to expand it and then click the icon, as you can just click the icon and it will launch it. I’ve been using Windows 11 since it came out, and the all apps tab is something I have barely ever used. All my important stuff is neatly organized in one single tab of my home star menu screen, and anything that is not there I’ll just look it up with search.
