The truth is, it isn’t. It’s mostly just traditional resistance to visual change.

Its not bad but they have to keep moving or they will die. Many like it many don’t. If only if they would fix explorer crashing every time I manipulate compressed files. I use 11, vm for win 10, MX Linux and my favourite, good old workbench 3.2 on the amiga. Not terribly productive in the modern world but It’s my favourite.

People are not as clever as they think they are and are afraid of change, they like to trash talk new stuff despite the solution to their problem being on the first page of a search. Other people then repeat this so they can look informed. Don’t be those people.

Windows 11 isnt Windows … it is a Frankenstein of old windows code, the new linux code they started to integrate into windows 10 and then leftovers and backward compatibility stuff from windows NT

It is normally the people who don’t like something, who are the most vocal, which gives a distorted impression of the product.

I look after Windows deployments in business and since we’ve been rolling out Windows 11 not a single comment has been made, either positive or negative about Windows 11.

People generally like Windows and negative comments are nearly always about hardware issues, underperforming software or misunderstandings.

Windows 11 doesn’t even exist technically - It is a marketing device by Microsoft to uplift the minimum hardware spec. of what is really Windows 10 with a slightly modified GUI.

That gives people a chance to blame anything that doesn’t work, on the ‘new’ OS.

I have Win 11 and it kicks ass for gaming. Recommend!

For me the annoyance is they change everything from each new OS. And for troubleshooting you are more than ever led to settings, even when you go through control panel.

Thank you Microsoft.

It’s not. It’s just monkeys that are opposed to any change because their smooth brain hurts if they have to slightly adjust their habits.

UI changes that make no sense. Forcing you to have internet and either having or creating a Microsoft account on a clean install. There were a couple of videos that proved that Windows 11 actually lost a couple of frames in most games despite Microsoft claiming the exact opposite before it was launched.

A few other inconveniences that I can’t remember right now. Which is why they are rushing to release Windows 12, should be out next year.

i personally think win 11 is much better than win 10.

the only thing worse is a start menu, but all apps i use are pinned in the taskbar at the bottom so i dont really use the start menu.

Just design decisions for whatever reason that decrease usability. Best example is you used to not be able to right click tasbar /task manager

Although that was backtracked and can now be done, things like that still exist, options in the right click are now an extra click away

Things like mouse cursor size and colour are now in even further apart obscure settings windows

Just updated my client last week as a user.
Manually having to tinker with bios, manually having to convert drives from MBR to GPT including system drive. Loss of FPS in games (still not sure why). Poor implementation for finding apps. Monetization of screen space. Lack of privacy with copilot and copilot sucks. The troubleshooter may aswell not exist like win10.

Its the curse of Windows.

98 Good
ME bad
XP Good
Vista Bad
Win 7 Good
Win 8 Bad
Win 10 Good
Win 11 Bad

Cant escape it.

I run Win 10 on 3 of my machines and 11 on two.

I installed a Win 10 style Start and Context menu add ons and moved the task bar icons over to the left.

Now I honestly don’t notice the difference during everyday use

Start menu was monetized in a way that makes it less useful.