Hello, fellow Windows users! In today s video,
I will rant about Windows 11 and what I hate about it. Yes, that s right. Because while
Windows 11 aims to be a great operating system, it s definitely not a masterpiece. There
are many reasons why you may like it, but there are also reasons why Windows 11 sucks.
Things that are missing and we had in Windows 10, things that were better designed in
earlier Windows operating systems, and things that are hard to do. Why is Windows 11
so bad that it makes some people wonder if they should switch to using Linux or macOS? Here are
some reasons why I and probably many others feel let down by Microsoft and why Windows 11 sucks,
at least in some respects. Sometimes, Windows 11 feels like an operating system that nobody wanted,
nobody asked for, and nobody needs. Windows 10, even with all its mishaps and issues, looks better
than Windows 11, and in most cases, it feels faster. The design of Windows 11 makes me wonder
whether Microsoft hired a team of preschoolers to draw its interface and expected a bunch of
machines to use it. I don t know about you, but having used each and every version of Windows
since Windows 3.1 to present one in question, I find the design of the latter to be quite
inconsistent, confusing, and often annoying. It s like they took many things that were good
and already polished in previous versions... and threw them away. The rounded corners, the
translucent windows, the centered taskbar, the Widgets that are confined in their own
popup window, the new yet boring icons should I continue? Though I don t necessarily hold
this against Microsoft, another reason why many people do not love or downright hate Windows
11, is its hardware demands. The company imposes strict system requirements for Windows 11, meaning
many can t install it or upgrade their computers. Besides what we d call normal requirements for
an operating system, such as processor speed, RAM, or storage amount, Windows 11 also has
a series of prohibitive requests. Among them, the most disconcerting is the fact that your
PC needs to have a Trusted Platform Module, aka TPM 2.0 chip. Add the fact that its processor
must be at least a 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen or an 8th Generation Intel, or one of a few select Intel
Core 7th Gen processors. It s easy to call all of that mandatory on paper, but in the real world,
there are lots of slightly older computers that have enough power to run Windows 11, but they
simply don t have TPM 2.0 or one of the supported processors. For example, I had an older laptop
with an Intel Core i7 7700HQ processor that ran great and even had a TPM 2.0 chip on it. It
would have had no problem running Windows 11, but Microsoft didn t let me, so I had to make
the tough decision of selling it. I m pretty sure that many people are in the exact same
situation, and that sucks! On the same note, there are many entry-level computers, laptops,
and tablets that theoretically comply with all the system requirements of Windows 11. But even
if they do, the operating system s performance is disappointing, as on many of them, Windows 11 is
slow, buggy, and unstable. I ve seen it firsthand on so many devices. Long story short, and if you
allow me a joke, on entry-level PCs, Windows 11 freezes more than my wife when I turn on the air
conditioning. Is it okay for an operating system to lag more often than a dial-up connection when
all you re trying to do is open its Settings app? Does it make sense for Windows 11 to consume more
resources than a black hole just to keep Microsoft Edge running? I d say no to all that and more:
if you value speed, reliability, and efficiency, it s a nightmare to stare at your PC while it s
taking forever to load apps, boot, install things, and last but not least, update itself! There are
a couple of specific areas where I feel Microsoft did a poor job when designing Windows 11. Even
if, over time, some have been improved a bit, they still lack in terms of usability and customization
options. And there is a list of things I think of quite often when I say Windows 11 sucks. First of
all Windows 11 s taskbar is less customizable... than it should be. Windows 11 s taskbar looks
nice with its centered icons and Start Menu, but it feels like a downgrade from Windows 10 in
every other way. Windows 11 s taskbar can t be moved or resized, it can t be set to show smaller
icons, and you can t ungroup the buttons on it. These are things that you can do with the taskbar
from Windows 10, but you can t do in Windows 11. Who would ve thought such a flaw would be present
in Microsoft s newest and most modern operating system? Likewise, Windows 11 s Start Menu feels
like a downgrade from previous Windows versions. Microsoft tried to make it simpler and more
focused on what people really use. Unfortunately, they kind of failed. The Windows 11 Start Menu
looks a bit more like a smartphone s home screen, but it s nowhere near as useful. The live tiles
are gone and replaced with simple icons, which is OK except for the fact that I actually liked the
live tiles of some Windows 10 apps, like Weather, Mail, or Calendar. Don t you miss them too?
Furthermore, instead of having something useful in its bottom section, Windows 11 s Start Menu
only gives you a few apps and files you recently used. In theory, it might be a good thing, but
in practice, I have yet to find how this could be useful to me in any way. I ve never found the
documents I wanted to edit in this recommendations list. The apps I regularly use are already in the
Pinned section, which makes the Recommended area of the Start Menu pointless. Another issue is that
if you configure the Recommended section not to show anything, it doesn t disappear to leave room
for other sections, and you get a Start Menu that s partly empty. Is that a good design choice?
After all, in Microsoft s own Feedback Hub, the user request to remove the Recommended section is
one of the most upvoted by people. And so many... other things are not as straightforward in the
new OS as they were in Windows 10, like... Windows 11 s user interface requires too many clicks. It
might not be a big issue, but it s an annoying one for many. Take, for example, the way you connect
to a Wi-Fi network: in Windows 10, you click or tap on the Wi-Fi button from the system tray,
and you get to see the list of available wireless networks. Then, you simply choose the one you want
to connect to. In Windows 11, you use the same network button from the system tray, but to get
to the Wi-Fi list, you must additionally press the small arrow button next to the Wi-Fi entry. Or, as
another example, in Windows 10, if you right-click on the desktop or on a file or folder, you get a
contextual menu with options to choose from. But no, in Windows 11, doing the same thing only shows
you a few options, and to see them all, you have to make another click or tap on Show more options.
So instead of one click, you have to click twice, and that s another reason why Windows 11 is
irritating to use, compared to Windows 10. Ok, you can restore the good old right-click menu
from Windows 10 in Windows 11, but why? Why it's not there form the very beginning? But let's
go even further with the missing functionalities: for example, settings still don t include
everything in the old Control Panel. Do you remember when Windows 10 was launched? It was on
July 29, 2015. That was the starting date for the touch-friendly Settings app that was and is still
struggling to replace the old Control Panel. Until now, Microsoft still hasn t managed to finish
migrating all the tools and settings in Windows 10 s Settings app. And the bad news is that Windows
11 is just as far behind. While the Settings app in Windows 11 is more streamlined and better in
many aspects than the one in Windows 10, it still doesn t have all the things found in the Control
Panel. In other words, the Control Panel is still a thing in Windows 11, an operating system that
s as new and modern as it gets! Not something I expected from it, and definitely not something
that I thought I d be saying almost 8 years after first seeing the Settings app. Uh, and one more
thing: Offline local accounts are not available for Windows 11 Home. Are you a fan of cloud
services, online accounts, and syncing everything you can on your Windows devices? If you are,
then you probably don t mind using a Microsoft account on each and every Windows 11 computer
or device you own. However, if you re not, or if you intend to use Windows 11 on a PC that s not
connected to the internet, here s another reason why Windows 11 sucks: you can t install its Home
edition without a Microsoft account or an internet connection. Isn t that great? Only Windows 11 Pro
can be used with local offline accounts, and even that requires workarounds. That s a bummer and
an unnecessary restriction on Microsoft s part, one that I presume the company imposes only to
force people to create Microsoft accounts and use more of its services. So, what's to be done?
Well, if Windows 11 sucks too much for you, as it does for me, you can go back to Windows 10 like I
already did on my personal belongings, being the, laptop or desktop PC. These were just some of the
things I don t like about Windows 11. Most of them could be significantly improved. I really hope
Microsoft will act on them in future updates, so that Windows may truly become the modern operating
system they want it to be. But most likely, they might just release Windows 12 before making
Windows 11 better. Before ending this video, please let me know in the comments section: what
are the things you dislike most about Windows 11? Did you keep on using it despite its flaws
and shortcomings, or did you reach the obvious conclusion that it s simpler to just go back to
Windows 10? Well, that was it for today, thanks for watching, if you enjoyed today's video, please
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