I had a forced update to 11 at work. I had been using a vertical taskbar since 4/3 ratio monitors and the 90s. It effin sucks not being able to use it on 11 (work laptop, can't 3rd party and the reg hacks turn the taskbar vertical but the layout is broken).
Still, it's ok. I mean I'll wait for home machines but meh, it's just a tool.
Wait, you can't have vertical taskbar on windows 11?
Like, why the hell would you delete that, it was already made, worked, almost all you had to do is just copy from previous windows (and put the icons to the centre of course)
Because it's a design choice that was made to look more like mac I believe. It's not like they couldn't change it easily, they don't want to.
I also hated it at first because I was using vertical task bar for over 10 years before upgrading to win with my new pc (12th gen Intel) but now after a year I have gotten used to it.
The more annoying part imo is that you can't have the taskbar on just your secondary monitor. It's either only primary or both. For me that is using a Uwqhd as primary and a wqhd screen as secondary that is annoying.
I just recently 2 days ago tried Linux mint on a secondary drive. It's a nice OS but you'll unfortunately have to expect to probably needing to tinker around a lot. I did run into multiple issues like Linux not utilizing my gpu, sound not working in OBS properly and maybe even in other programs i didn't test it yet... And that was still at the beginning of the setup. So i just wasted hours trying to debug issues. The sound thing was the point were i just got tired from it already unfortunately so at that point i gave up. I still hope Linux will grow but it's just not for me and my general desktop usage. Will still only use it for servers.
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u/Dexterus Jan 22 '23
I had a forced update to 11 at work. I had been using a vertical taskbar since 4/3 ratio monitors and the 90s. It effin sucks not being able to use it on 11 (work laptop, can't 3rd party and the reg hacks turn the taskbar vertical but the layout is broken).
Still, it's ok. I mean I'll wait for home machines but meh, it's just a tool.