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It's not the job offer that I necessarily object to, but the investigations prior to it. I treasure my lack of security clearance.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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What would you advise?
Is there a start button there in the Desktop mode? - yes, it is kind of important for me.
Any important features lacking?
Nick Polyak
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Nick Polyak wrote: Any important features lacking?
Sanity? Logic?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Can you justify? Or is it just a joke?
If sanity and logic (or lack of thereof) is comparable to Windows 10 - it is good enough for me.
Nick Polyak
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It was a joke (message icon set). I haven't installed it (an I will probably wait a bit to do it) so I can't really speak.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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So far pretty ok. Whether you like it or hate it... sooner or later you need to become familiar with it. Same was with 2k->xp->W7->W8->W10 
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Yes, but I know of a lot of people who skipped ME, Vista, W8. maybe a bunch of people will skip W11 and just wait for the next one.
I wouldn't mind upgrading, but I loath the new Mac clone of a start menu. everything else seems pretty cool and useful.
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It's just windows 10. Not even 10.1.
Most of the UI changes aren't that big. But there might be something annoying you, you have to try it out - no one can tell you, as we all have different things we find important. For me, the changes are just "meh".
Then they added some bloatware (Teams), but improved wsl2, so the usual back and forth. Certainly nothing that couldn't just have been Windows 10 21h2 (as they clearly know, hence the version remains 10.0).
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Yes, it is actually for the sake of better WSL that I plan to switch (if at all)
Nick Polyak
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I have it in a VM somewhere but haven't spent enough time making actual use of it to offer an honest opinion. But what I keep hearing is, if you're a power user, you will sooner or later come to hate the taskbar, which lacks a lot of basic features you simply took for granted on Win10. If that's of no concern to you...jump right ahead? Because every other comment I've read so far agrees with the others here, it's really still Win10 with a new paint job.
YMMV.
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lol, single most annoying being the removal of the Task Manager option from the right click menu
and outside of that right click on anything else and see
Click here for every other option you liked using which we have now hidden another click away
Sigh, sometimes progress just doesn't seem to be forwards
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Works fine for me. After you change the taskbar icons alignment to "left", you might not even notice it's W11 and not W10.
Biggest annoyance: icons in start menu cannot be grouped.
Biggest improvement: WSL integration in terminal
What I like most: the rounded corners - they don't scratch my eyes 
Mircea
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You can't group icons in the start menu?  What braniac came up with that?
WSL - windows subsystem for linux.
What happened to all of the security advertising? Pretty sure 11 will have a new flavor of "let's make people rant, ooohhh there's Charlie."
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: "let's make people rant, ooohhh there's Charlie."
New and shiny paranoia mode.
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Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I too was hesitant but about 2-3 months ago I upgraded and so far it's been smooth sailing.
Would I recommend it...Yes!
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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The only real issue I have with Windows 11 is that the Windows 10 start menu, which was highly customizable with regards to grouping and sizing, is gone. MS went the Apple route and eliminated all these features, making the start menu nearly useless.
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Not if I have to buy a new PC to use it - and a new tablet for the better half, so NO. 
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The start button is there. An important feature as far as I'm concerned would be docking the task bar to a side of the screen, that's still missing.
I get the occasional AMD fTPM hiccups, waiting for the announced fix.
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I'm using it, and the Start menu is a vast improvement over the horror that was Windows 10. It's actually genuinely useful, and all those ridiculous tiles are gone.
It's still a bit buggy though. My pet peeves are:
- when you click on the icon for a running app in the taskbar, it doesn't (usually) come to the front (this is really annoying)
- when you launch an application, is sometimes doesn't come to the front (less annoying, but weird; related?)
Other than that, it's fine. I do resent the fact that I had to buy (well, build) a new machine to run it though. Probably I could have snuck round that, but it didn't seem worth it. I don't want my primary development machine suddenly saying "shalln't" because MS have decided to pull the plug.
Paul Sanders
http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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Paul Sanders (the other one) wrote: Other than that, it's fine. I do resent the fact that I had to buy (well, build) a new machine to run it though. Probably I could have snuck round that, but it didn't seem worth it. I don't want my primary development machine suddenly saying "shalln't" because MS have decided to pull the plug.
Why did you switch to Win11? Was there a pressing need?
When Win11 was released my desktop was 8 yo and my laptop 6 yo. Switching to Win11 was not an option, as I saw no point in buying new h/w to run an O/S that I didn't have a pressing need for. A few months back my desktop exhibited memory errors, and given the age, I replaced the MB, CPU, and RAM, and re-installed Win10. Once I replace the laptop (which may be sooner than I want) I'll consider Win11, depending on the state of Win11 at that time.
At this point, Win11 seems like hassles without benefit, so it's very likely I'll stay on Win10 until that changes, or until Win10 goes out of support.
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Not really, no, but quite a few of my customers are switching over so I though I should be able to experience what they experience (I had it installed in a VM, but that's not the same as using it day in, day out).
But you're right, you're not missing out on anything important. And if, like me, you have a pathological hatred of the Windows 10 start menu, there's always Start10.
Paul Sanders
http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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new company laptop, so yes.
Most hated part (because company laptop and although I could edit regisity, I'm resisting not do so)
is no un-group task bar applications
multiple broowser windows,
multiple Visual Studio instances
multiple windows explorer
multiple excel windows
i dont want to hover over to tab to switch window.
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while im ranting
that the default taskbar is to middle
I understand is beneficial from a Touch first design, but from mouse ui, and placement memory is bad.
open new app, it shifts all the task bar items.
Yes, Mac got away with it for decades, doenst mean shifting where app is for design sakes is good for user
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