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Barney Rubble

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I use Windows 11 at home and at work. I don't know what all the crying is about. Win 11 just works. I don't know what some of you are doing to your computers.
Try restarting your computer with your second monitor turned off, you'll be missing all your taskbar icons and have to restart windows explorer to see them. Try adding or making a folder on your taskbar, not possible. So instead of having a specific category conveniently holding your games or programs, you have to have each specific icon wasting space. I use OLED, so auto-hide is a must, but it constantly gets stuck, and you have to restart windows explorer to fix it. This is a known problem since Windows 10. There is no command to change your primary monitor, so you have to open personalize and manually switch it each time. If you're using G-Sync, the primary monitor will control the refresh rate, even if your secondary has a higher refresh rate. When Windows 24H2 dropped, it was forced on me, and I found out it was constantly using 10% of my CPU even when idle. Thousands of other people had this problem and Microsoft couldn't fix it. I also couldn't rollback, so I had to completely reinstall Windows using a custom 23H2 version and manually disable windows updates for six months until it was fixed.

I could go on and on.
 

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Try restarting your computer with your second monitor turned off, you'll be missing all your taskbar icons and have to restart windows explorer to see them. Try adding or making a folder on your taskbar, not possible. So instead of having a specific category conveniently holding your games or programs, you have to have each specific icon wasting space. I use OLED, so auto-hide is a must, but it constantly gets stuck, and you have to restart windows explorer to fix it. This is a known problem since Windows 10. There is no command to change your primary monitor, so you have to open personalize and manually switch it each time. If you're using G-Sync, the primary monitor will control the refresh rate, even if your secondary has a higher refresh rate. When Windows 24H2 dropped, it was forced on me, and I found out it was constantly using 10% of my CPU even when idle. Thousands of other people had this problem and Microsoft couldn't fix it. I also couldn't rollback, so I had to completely reinstall Windows using a custom 23H2 version and manually disable windows updates for six months until it was fixed.

I could go on and on.
-Just tried the first one. Worked with no issues.
-Honestly not even sure what you're referring to. It sounds like something niche.
-My autohide never gets stuck. Again, what are you doing to your computer?
-I haven't tried it, but I would bet good money there is an app or macro or something that can change your primary monitor.
-Idling at 10%? Damn, it sounds like all of those JBO websites caught up to you. You're the guy that has stepped on every single landmine there is. At some point its you.
 

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-Just tried the first one. Worked with no issues.
-Honestly not even sure what you're referring to. It sounds like something niche.
-My autohide never gets stuck. Again, what are you doing to your computer?
-I haven't tried it, but I would bet good money there is an app or macro or something that can change your primary monitor.
-Idling at 10%? Damn, it sounds like all of those JBO websites caught up to you. You're the guy that has stepped on every single landmine there is. At some point its you.
Countless threads about auto-hide.
Wanting to organize your icons by category so they take up less space is a reasonable request and not niche.
It's not viruses, it was a known bug that took six months to fix and caused many to completey reinstall windows because rollback didn't work. Again countless threads.
 

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Countless threads about auto-hide.
Wanting to organize your icons by category so they take up less space is a reasonable request and not niche.
It's not viruses, it was a known bug that took six months to fix and caused many to completey reinstall windows because rollback didn't work. Again countless threads.

Funny thing is. I have that EXACT laptop from that reddit post. NEVER had the CPU issue. And you can slap pretty much any app onto Windows. If you really wanna do some goofy shyt with your taskbar, I'm almost certain there is an app that'll do it. Just go get it. And I don't know what to tell you. My shyt autohides just fine. So much so that until you brought it up in this thread, I didn't even know it was a thing.

Stop doing a bunch of weird shyt with your computer bruh.
 

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Try restarting your computer with your second monitor turned off, you'll be missing all your taskbar icons and have to restart windows explorer to see them. Try adding or making a folder on your taskbar, not possible. So instead of having a specific category conveniently holding your games or programs, you have to have each specific icon wasting space. I use OLED, so auto-hide is a must, but it constantly gets stuck, and you have to restart windows explorer to fix it. This is a known problem since Windows 10. There is no command to change your primary monitor, so you have to open personalize and manually switch it each time. If you're using G-Sync, the primary monitor will control the refresh rate, even if your secondary has a higher refresh rate. When Windows 24H2 dropped, it was forced on me, and I found out it was constantly using 10% of my CPU even when idle. Thousands of other people had this problem and Microsoft couldn't fix it. I also couldn't rollback, so I had to completely reinstall Windows using a custom 23H2 version and manually disable windows updates for six months until it was fixed.

I could go on and on.
That exact issue is why I'm about to swap to linux.
 

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The forced cloud shyt is a pain in the ass. Also I can't get rid of this damn would you like to upgrade to 25H2 or whatever when my system says I'm already up to date. Just a constant blue update dot.
 

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The forced cloud shyt is a pain in the ass. Also I can't get rid of this damn would you like to upgrade to 25H2 or whatever when my system says I'm already up to date. Just a constant blue update dot.

. . . . is it true theres no local storage . . . you have to be connected to the network to be able to open your personal files via OneDrive ?!?!!!

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. . . . is it true theres no local storage . . . you have to be connected to the network to be able to open your personal files via OneDrive ?!?!!!

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My laptop has an internal Hard Drive. But, Windows 11 refuses to default to it and instead try to fill up your cloud storage. And then when the cloud storage gets close to full it will then try and upsell you to buy more cloud storage space. Also when you turn off the sync it does nothing but tell you non-stop that stuff isn't sync'd. So just a cycle of annoying bullshyt.
 

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I had been off Windows for a long time outside of work laptops. When 11 first dropped it was the first time in a long time I was like ok this isn’t bad, then with every update it got worse and worse. It that time I ended up buying my a mini PC for YouTube and random browsing but all my other devices are Apple. It’s really over for me now. Going to definitely install Linux on one my older Macs to play around with and everything moving forward will be Mac or Linux.
 

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. . . . is it true theres no local storage . . . you have to be connected to the network to be able to open your personal files via OneDrive ?!?!!!

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This isn't true. If you setup Windows without a cloud account it works as normal. If you setup windows with a cloud account, which MS tries to force you into, it saves by default to onedrive. But you can set the option to save locally like it's always been done in the past.

I would never claim that Win 11 is perfect. And yes, them trying to force the cloud onto you is annoying. But to also act like Windows itself is constantly doing weird shyt is ridiculous. Yes, I'm sure there are some people out there that run into bugs. I would wager that most don't though.

If you are someone who truly knows your way around computers, you can make that switch to one of the Windows-like linux distros. But the majority of casual users out there that know how to use Windows, you switch them to Linux and they'll be begging to come back to Windows.
 
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