Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : esc
From : Adept
Date : Wed Dec 07 2022 13:19:15

 es>  ap> I don't mind windows 11, it's much nicer than windows 10, but the
 es>  ap> hardware requirements suck.
 es> 
 es> The one thing I absolutely hated about Win11 was the right-click flyout
 es> menu in file explorer. Burying all the useful options in submenus
 es> requiring more clicking around was pretty lame.

(I'm behind on messages, so perhaps this already got talked about)

What I'm struggling with, with Win11, along with what you're saying, are other minor annoyances that I don't understand.

E.g., there's a default widget, that I would actively like -- if it didn't automatically open on hover. They introduced it that way on Win10, but then eventually included a way to make it not open on hover. Then made the same decision with Win11 to have it open on hover, but figured that defaulting it to the corner was enough.

And another minor thing, is that there are different things that happen when you click on the speaker icon, whether it's a left or right click. So I misclick, then do the right click, and the second click comes up behind the first. So I click out of both, then do the click I wanted.

And all of these are things that were handled differently in Win10, and I don't see any compelling reason for them to have changed it.

And, in the case of the widget, "do not open on hover" should _always_ be an option, for anything more than a tooltip.

But, in general, Win11 seems fine to me. I can't say I particularly _care_ about how it's different from Win10, but largely it does what I want, and I can ignore it most of the time.

And that's the state I want for an OS. Basically stop thinking about it.

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