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timperatoday at 1:34 PM4 repliesview on HN

Windows 11 is pretty great though, it keeps all the good ideas from 10 and improves on them. I don't get the hate.


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doubled112today at 2:19 PM

It's a buggy mess that harasses you. I understand the hate.

This morning I got three screens asking if I wanted to log in and configure backup. There is still not an option to say no, only ask me later.

Last week the top half of the taskbar disappeared for an evening.

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soraminazukitoday at 2:19 PM

Great for ... shareholders? Because you can't possibly be talking about users. Windows is an OS that forces cloud logins, tracks and records every interaction, steals email credentials, shoves ads and full screen nags everywhere, sabotages competing software, turns perfectly good hardware into e-waste, and won't take no for an answer from users. It serves the interest of billionaires, not common people.

For paying users, this is the definition of an unmitigated disaster. Windows 11 expands on all of the worst aspects of Windows 10. Inconsistent UI, duplicated settings, two context menus, laggy start menu with React in it, and on and on and on the list goes. It's obvious why people hate it.

No other OS has shown this much level of outright contempt towards its users. Modern Windows is, without doubt, the worst desktop OS to ever exist in the history of computing.

hulitutoday at 3:17 PM

> it keeps all the good ideas from 10 and improves on them.

Are there any good ideas in Windows 10 ?

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heisgonetoday at 1:55 PM

23H2 was pretty close to being solid and stable but 24H2 has been a disaster.