11 Things hate about Windows 11 - Windows 11
Introduction
Windows 11 is great, I mean, this baby packs so many
features, like better HDR, better multi-monitor support, better search, and
there's only, there’s only a few little bugs to work out that-Okay.
It has some problems and these are 11 of the ones that have
been driving us most crazy over the last few weeks.
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Cert Expiry
First up on our list is a seemingly minor complaint, but
it's one that could hide something much more sinister.
As of writing, there were a few core tools that were just
straight up broken on Windows 11 launch, the snipping tool, voice typing, and
the emoji panel.
Now, Microsoft is already rolling out a patch and by the
time you watch this, it'll probably be fixed. But the issue is that these broke
because Microsoft's digital certificate expired on October 31st.
Why are core parts of the operating system dependent on
these digital certificates that can just expire? If you have the Pro version
and suddenly you can't use a feature you paid for, that is simply unacceptable.
Internet Required
Speaking of buying Windows 11, unless you pay extra for the
Pro version, good luck creating a local offline account without logging into
your Microsoft account.
Many of you already have Microsoft accounts and there are
real world benefits to using one, like account recovery through the cloud, but
this solidifies once and for all the idea that while Windows is becoming free
to use, you are almost certainly paying for it with your data.
Once you've logged in, you can create as many local accounts
that aren't linked to Mr. Gates as you want, but your windows 11 ET will need
to phone home during setup, or you are basically hooped.
Driver Downgrade
We haven't actually encountered this one yet, but there are
reports online of the Windows 11 driver update tool actually downgrading the
drivers that you have installed for your GU’s for now, you're best off
completely ignoring the tool and sticking with your direct download from the
NVidia or AMD website.
File Explorer
Oh, and by the way, did you notice the menu breaking in that
clip? Well, multiple staff members here at Mohave reported File Explorer just
randomly crashing on them. It’s happening to Jake three to five times a day.
And after the first couple of times, it really starts to get on your nerves. I
mean, we expect some crashes here and there.
It’s not like Explorer doesn't hang in Windows 10 sometimes,
but when a core feature like this fails repeatedly, you can't help but get this
anxious feeling, like there's always a storm cloud following you around.
Weather
Speaking of which, where's my weather, Windows? You took
forever to put the weather thing in the task bar, and then, now, just as I had
gotten used to it, it's gone, hidden away in the widgets.
How will I know that it's going to be a cold day and I need
to grab my LTT beanie and stealth hoodie from lttstore.com? Also, right
clicking the task baron longer gives you the option to bring up task manager
and no longer gives you the option to anything at all, except for task bar
settings.
Taskbar
While we're at it, why the heck can't I see my clock on
every monitor? I want to game on my main display, you know, the one where
you've inconveniently glued the clock, and I don't want to alt tab out of my
game or pull out my phone to see if I should have gone to bed two hours agora,
gaming.
If you're running an AMD CPU, you got off to a pretty bad
start, with up to 15% performance loss in games due to a scheduler issue.
Gaming
The patch for that seems to be working for most people now.
But now, it's Intel that seems to be having their own troubles.
We’ve had to do more hard resets in the last couple of weeks
than in the last couple of years, playing a mix of both older games, like
"Dote 2" or "Slay the Spire”, and newer ones, like "Forza
Horizon 5" and "Death loop”.
It might be the new auto HDR feature that’s causing some of
this fuss since what we've seen the most is with multiple monitors suddenly
going dark and then the entire PC becoming non-responsive.
But at this point, the only thing we know absolutely for
sure is that it's pretty annoying.
Scaling
Now, for some more multi-monitor woes. These come in the
form of weird scaling bugs that we just keep encountering. Basically, if you
have scaling set to 150%and open the settings menu in your secondary display,
it’ll open scaled to 100%.You can then move it back to the primary display and
bade Bing, bade boom, it's fixed, but this kind of window dance shouldn’t be
required in the first place.
Updater
It worked perfectly fine for some of our staff, but Jake had
to do a fresh install and we've seen similar complaints online.
To be clear, we always recommend fresh installing a new
Oxford the cleanest, most bug-free experience, but keeping all of your programs
and files is supposed to be possible and makes for a much less painful
transition for most people, so it'd be great if it worked.
Overflow icons
Another annoyance that started with what we thought would be
a pretty cool feature is the overflow icons. It’s pretty straightforward in theory.
You take apps in your system tray and then put them over
onto the right side of the task bares overflow icons. Pretty nifty.
Unfortunately, these icons often become impossible to right
click and interact with while a game is up. So what's the point? You know, you
hit the windows key to bring up the task bar, you right click the icon and
nothing.
Which, you know, maybe you would think, oh, well, that's
because the games launched and you can't interact with the system tray icons.
Except if you put them back in the system tray, they work just fine.
User Interface
Now, let's talk about the rounded corners. These have been
causing a fair amount of controversy. For my part, I don't mind the look, but
they need to be easier to expand and resize.
Currently, it is too difficult to grab the cornering order
to perform these actions because Microsoft in their infinite wisdom removed the
corner.
Looks great, feels un-great. Now, the fix is pretty easy.
Make the sweet spot bigger for the mouse cursor, or just add
an invisible corner to every window, but it's got to be done in order to
improve quality of life with Windows 11.
Also, right clicking on the desktop used to be a great
experience.
You get all these relevant options that are now hidden away
in a submenu. And the worst part isn't that those options aren’t being hidden
away, it’s how many of these submenu options are actually just repeats of the
previous menu.
Like, why? Yes, the new quick options at the top, great
feature, but you could have added those without tacking on a seemingly
pointless extra step.
As for the start menu, there's a lot of empty space and it
can take a bit to load too, which is something I thought we'd moved past after
Windows 10's growing pains.
Furthermore, if you start typing to search for something, it
switches you over to the search window, which just feels unnecessarily jarring.
It doesn't even morph smoothly into the other window. It
just janky brings up the search menu while dropping the start menu. At least,
it does the first time you do it, just like we're going to be putting together
one petabyte SSD server for the first time.
Search
You were the chosen one, finally to be focused on helping us
find our files and applications. But no, Microsoft decided that web results
should still be the priority.
Now, to be clear, it is better than Windows 10.Way better
than Windows 10.We just feel that a tiered setting, web priority, local
priority or local only would allow it to be all things to all people rather
than, well, an annoyance to many people.
Now, we've mentioned often that being an early adopter sucks
and while many folks are actually.
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