Windows 11 was just a hastily-developed salesperson-tier excuse to require TPM 2.0 wasn't it?

I assumed people would find shift+right click. It brings up the old right click menu

Too late too little microslop

Just rerelease Windows 10 IoT LTSC as standard Windows, there fixed it.

It's a drag that products like Windows are stuck forever the way they are. Or, rather, that they're stuck the way they are but then command such market share that nothing new ever comes and sees the light of day. Windows is doomed to keep generating billions for Microsoft until one day it doesn't, which I guess is what they're going for.

It also seems silly to tie the decline of Windows to UI discontent. Windows is in decline because it's increasingly irrelevant in the post-PC, post-USA world, and sucks in general.

Unless Windows 11 runs fine under 2GB of RAM (even 1 with some profiles) and with 4GB with normal browsing, they are doomed.

the question this doesnt address is whether the world is buying less PCs or is it the windows share of market that’s declining, or both.

The end of windows has been heralded since it exists, but it’s still not going anywhere.

I use Linux, MacOS and Windows and I am generally happier with Linux and Windows for navigating around but if there are annoyances that still haven't been fixed after 20 years on Windows, they are:

1) Paying for a licence and still being treated like a marketing target

2) Windows update is ridiculously slow end-to-end and takes a whole morning once per month to update our platform machines (even though we are 80% Linux)

3) Search is really, really, really bad. I mean honestly, search for a program and it might take 10 seconds to load a result if it loads anything at all. Partial matches? Nope. This has never worked on any of my windows 7-11 machines and has never been fixed.

4) The whole "reinstall Windows" attitude at Microsoft Support if they cannot work out why something isn't working

5) The half-arsed attempts to harmoize the UI which just leads to weirdisms like network in 3 different places, remote desktop still in a windows 32 bit dialog, and the fact that things got renamed and moved with every major release for what can only be assumed to be a shit reason breaking muscle memory for 1000s of people.

6) Not having the Virt IO drivers included in the base windows installer.

I think that is enough for now!

I for one am extremely grateful for Windows 11 Pro - as a longtime user of Windows for gaming, I couldn't wait to get off Windows at any possible cost. The nagging and repeated reverting of settings and forced defaults and increased telemetry (perhaps inspired by Papa Google) were too much for me. Not to mention I really tried to stay on Windows 10 and they didn't let me.

Thank you, Microsoft, for pushing me into Fedora Workstation, which works mostly flawlessly, and whose updates excite me. Updates on Microsoft were always an Oh Man, let's cross our fingers, type situation. MacOS updates are increasingly a groaning trepidation - what new UI experiments are they going to throw at me. With Fedora, innovation comes with every update and where something annoys me (like the minimalist KDE UI that hides window drop down menus and whatnot) I can just download someone's override or plugin to customize it the way I want.

Windows 11 was an attempt to turn the hardware we own into hardware owned by Microsoft. I should say pwn3d.

I assume we still won't be able to make the task bar vertical.