Windows 11 has the worst settings experience I've ever seen. It's a complete pain to use. Windows P was beautiful, I do actually remember those days.

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@bryn Thank you. I just don't like the direction MS is going. Form over function, pretty over practicality. It simply does not sit well with me.

@bryn Really? I'm shocked that it's gone through *yet* another redesign so quickly. I thought that the win 10 UI was for life... Shows what I know haha

@bryn Hahahahahaha, you didn't see my diatribe against that on twitter did you? Mahahaha. OOO yes. I'm using Notepad 2 now. Notepad did one thing, one thing that I found so utterly incompetent that it made me actually switch my book reader, the same one I've been using for over 20 years, because of one single, perhaps to some, insignificant change, but I just could not, would not accept it.

@bryn I went off on the using CTRL+W to close it. It might be simple for some, but I use that to close explorer and browser windows. I know that let's say if all goes to crap I can hit that and my notepad won't disappear. Not so in win 10. As Notepad isn't an MDI, why the hell did they make CTRL+W close it? I don't get it. Alt F4 was fine. Should have been fine. I kept closing things I was reading and dealing with, and as someone who has at least one notepad open 24-7... Yeah.

@bryn I don't know if Open Shell still works in 11, but if so, it puts back the sexy submenu control panel so you can find any and everything super-fast. I don't like win10 search bar, it takes ages to come up when pressing windows key, so I went back to tried and true win7 look and feel for that.

@bryn The settings app is a hundred layers of wtf. Not intuitive at all.

@JesseF8693 @bryn I love that. A hundred layers of WTF. gonna have to remember that one haha

@bryn It's ten types of trash. Limitless levels of lousy. I have sixty serious squabels.

Interesting views. I don't relish the thought of moving from JFW anytime soon for similar reasons you have stated. I did move from Hal to JFW when I started at uni and it was fairly painful. Maybe its the way I use Windows but I didn't find a huge amount of change in Windows 10 coming from Windows 8.1. I would say I am fairly loyal to the brand though and would go out of my way to not use a Mac if possible.

he should switch to windows 11 and be annoyed by widgets, weird stuff, xdd.
they just make windows worse and worse.

@pax Nope. Not happening. I already had to force 10 under my ruling and compliance instead of the other way around, not doing it again.