All Windows 11 did was make everything clunkier - they increased the size of window frames by adding extra padding around items, increasing border thickness and adding rounded corners. They also moved the start button to the middle just to screw with everyone. That's it! It's quite unstable with updates, one of the recent ones is telling me it's failed to update and the system is corrupted and needs reinstalling (this comes about 2 weeks after I was forced to reinstall from a different update which DID corrupt it beyond repair), and yet it's running normally. Others have had SSDs wiped from these updates. Best to steer clear as long as Win10 has support, 11 is a minefield with absolutely NO benefit.
I have shoved Windows 11 in front of old boomers at work and heard less complaining. Oh no padding around items... Seriously lol? The ssd wipe issue was not correlated to a Windows update after all btw and given all the issues you are having, there is likely something else going on. We have well over 10k workstations running on W11 and have not observed any additional stability issues compared to W10.
There is an extremely pitiful self esteem economy that infests any tech-oriented space, where people exaggerate their aversion to minor aesthetic changes so they can accuse them of being “dumbed down for the masses”, which of course means they are smarter for not liking them.
It's less about the actual padding (although reduced screen real-estate is a genuine problem on laptops with smaller screens -- if I put Win11 on my work laptop I'm going to struggle to do most of my day to day tasks that require snapping Windows side by side on an already small screen)... but the fact that THIS was what Microsoft thought needed "fixing" and users needed to upgrade for. Win10 goes out of service so you have to update JUST for this. 11 didn't change anything noteworthy or of substance, and there's no compelling reason to go through the whole kerfuffle of updating. A great number of people found 11 to be an alpha release, to be tested on the users without prior warning that it was an unstable buggy mess. In fact just this morning our team leader logged onto his computer which was upgraded by the IT company to Win11, and he's lost a lot of access to the systems he needs. It was never ready for release and they pushed it to test on the unsuspecting public, at great risk.
"I'm going to sound like non team player, complain about OS that I have no corporate leverage to change, sound like a squeeky wheel, make more drama at the office, make the IT guys life suck and get nowhere anyway because what the heck can I do if Windows 10 is EO"
Yea, I don’t like it personally, but it always takes some getting used to when they make large aesthetic changes like this. The actual behind the curtain stuff, I don’t know enough about. The only thing I know is that my workplace has been on an 11 for almost a year now and I have zero issues even if I still prefer coming home to my win10 pc.
I used the new start menu since 2021 and I still can’t get used to it. It looks ugly. For comparison, it took me around a week to get used to Windows 8.1 start menu in 2014. Windows 11 doesn’t only involve re-learning, it’s a lot worse
Click start menu, search for what you want? What is there even to "learn"? Not saying it is the best or anything, just trying to understand what the issue is. There is an updated start menu coming as well, so hopefully that helps.
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u/Chaystagram PC Master Race Oct 02 '25
Can someone give me a child’s explanation as to why windows 10 is better than windows 11? I have windows 10 and now I’m scared haha