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0 pointsneogodless3y ago0 comments

For me personally

- Taskbar cannot be pinned to the side on my widescreen monitors

- Items on taskbar cannot be un-grouped

- Cannot show text on taskbar

- News/weather widget is awful, full of clickbait news and tiny Weather widget, which is vastly inferior to having a live tile that opens to a full screen weather app

- Reduced start menu customization (live tiles / grid are replaced with folders that add an extra click)

Other than that I haven't used it enough to comment much more. I have it on my laptop which is mostly just used for gaming, and I can tolerate the taskbar and start menu regressions. But for me, most of using Windows is... using the taskbar and start menu. To take away most of their functionality seems like complete insanity!

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layer83y ago· 1 in thread

- The awful new context menu in Explorer.

dmonitor3y ago

it's so terrible that they even have to include a "show the good context menu" button

gzer03y ago

This tool [1] can solve all of your Windows 11 problems. I simply refuse to use windows 11 without the full right click context menu. This open source program does that, and much, much more. Smaller task bar, grouping/ungrouping icons. So glad I found this.

[1] https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

jyrkesh3y ago

> - Items on taskbar cannot be un-grouped

Oh my god, so much this one. It's driving me insane. I keep hoping that the next round of Start menu "improvements" bring it back, but I keep getting disappointed.

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