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anonymarsyesterday at 11:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Same here. With Windows 11 I feel like, "look how they massacred my boy"

There were so many things in previous versions of Windows that were done with thought and care. Probably the blogs helped make me appreciate it (especially Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing). Windows 11 feels like an insult created by people who hate Windows and never use it

I really wish we could keep the modern underpinnings with a prior shell


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lp0_on_firetoday at 1:56 AM

The start menu used to manifest instantly.

The right click menu never once showed me “loading…” when I just want to click “properties”

A not too overly flashy UI that made efficient use of your screen space.

It didn’t used to by default shove “news and entertainment” bing suggestions. Nobody wants to open their browser after an update to be greeted by tabloid rags.

The search used to work. You could find files instead of bing results. You could grep text files with the explorer search bar (across the network too) and it just worked. Good luck doing that today.

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