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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.

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[–] exanime@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Another shitty clone of the KDE launcher

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the kde launcher is very nice

[–] exanime@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Indeed it is! And customizable

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

I disagree. Microsoft is learning its lesson. It's just that the vast majority of people are teaching Microsoft that its actions are perfectly acceptable, or, at the very least, not totally unacceptable... so it continues.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm really enjoying my Mint 22 experience, the only downside is that I have to switch to windows to play Once Human.

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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft can not stop fucking up. I have to wonder what the turnaround is like on their UI teams that every god damn version needs a complete rework.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, dang. Laughing in KDE Plasma.

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[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

Edit: on my gaming PC. Everything else is already KDE Neon or ubuntu.

[–] vanderbilt@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

After Microsoft Edge decided to import all my chrome passwords and data I decided to get rid of windows as much as possible.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why do they keep changing the thing? Linux mint Cinnamon desktop has kept the same look and I appreciate that.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

New manager need to prove themselves -> can't do that by small improvements -> dreams up major changes -> gets promoted -> repeat

Is my guess

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[–] smb@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

not the home screem

if had to use windows at home i'ld screem too.

not too surprised they didn't change that.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool, will this one work, or will it still go unresponsive and/or fail to find the app called the exact thing you typed?

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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

oh yeah, now one can accidentally close the Start menu by clicking in the gap between the panels.

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Linux and gnome pretty much gtfo of the way for me - as an OS should. I used to care a lot about what Microsoft did, now I couldn’t care less - F em

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[–] bizza@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

Looks even worse than the one they had before

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So is Nadella redesigning all this stuff? Because it certainly doesn’t look like someone who is familiar with UI is doing it. Reminds me of when the CEO of Yahoo decided she could create a new logo in Corel Draw one night.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I was worried this was going to be a problem when I bought new Windows 11 laptops for my octogenerian parents to use. Fortunately, it turns out they never even knew how to use the start menu on earlier versions of Windows - they always just used the desktop or toolbar shortcuts I had set up for them. "The more things change, the more they never were in the first place".

[–] RangerJosie@sffa.community 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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