More info about it here: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/13/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-new-layout-to-organize-your-apps/
I love how microsoft never learns their lessons.
not the home screem
if had to use windows at home i’ld screem too.
not too surprised they didn’t change that.
Thanks, I hate it
Had to spin up a virtual windows machine the other day and was just honestly appalled at how bad the desktop experience is these days
They are removing the only really useful part of the start menu. Fucking genious.
It looks like the little windows you’d use to organise your applications in Windows 3.1
Looks like MacOS and various Linux distros had a deformed, illegitimate child.
how lol? i see absolutely no influence from macOS or DEs
Right? That’s nothing like those… that’s insulting to MacOS and Linux.
they need to bring back a windows 2000 classic style start menu
Not sure when it started, but I’ve already noticed some Start Menu fuckery with just the ‘Sign Out’ portion. I believe you previously just clicked on your profile picture/name and the options for signing out were right there. They’ve “helpfully” hidden those options now beneath a ••• menu for no apparent reason. I was a little aggravated when I first noticed it because it seemingly changed out of nowhere. Not a huge change, but it requires one more click to do now.
Right click the start menu should be easier to get to iirc
the changes in windows since 7 are a master class in UX design, as long as you remember it’s a negative.
People still use the start menu?
I just use the search bar and type in the app I’m wanting to run
I can’t even tell you the number of times and apps I’ve literally typed the name of, and windows either doesn’t find it, or decides to make me wait 5-10 seconds while it searches the web instead. Super helpful…
well window’s search is almost non-functional, so there’s that
It’s the same thing. Click bottom left corner, start typin. best workflow.
This is a new layout for the “all apps” section. It is toggle able, so if you don’t like it you don’t need to use it. I will give it a try but I don’t often go into all apps anyway.
So much negativity here.
Yeah its pretty funny to see people that allegedly don’t even use windows acting like it kicked their dog when they do anything.
They want to be as sleek as apple but it comes off as an old man trying to be hip
Apple hasn’t innovated in decades… It’s anything but sleek if we’re talking about macs.
And maybe I’m using it wrong, but it just…doesn’t work. I use spotlight search on my MacBook to find programs and things and it just finds them. It’s fast enough to be faster than me opening things off the dock.
I try to use the search on my wife’s Win11 computer and half the time it sends me to a website for a program she already has installed.
Like if you want to imitate, even badly, the imitation should at least be functional.
There’s a reason they made PowerToys Run. It’s miles ahead of the default Windows search experience.
feels to me that people who work on other parts of the OS are getting fed up with the default shell experience to such an extent that they have to build their own skunkwoks solutions
It was actually a third party open source project originally lol
TIL!
There’s a registry key to make it not search online
It still doesn’t work very well tho
I genuinely in 2024 I don’t see why would anyone want to use any Microsoft product. They (alongside with Google) present themselves as malicious companies that only care about user data and providing user notorious ads.
unfortunately they are like the only two competitive corporate email providers. all the business tools integrate with gmail or outlook and almost never anything else. shit is annoying af
Ugh, I just had to get an organization outlook and they’ve been screwing with backend server protocol support, which kills most third-party apps. For E-MAIL! Nothing about this need a new standard!
It’s awful, but KDE will copy it one day.
It’s not as bad as people here are making it out to be. It actually might even be an improvement. It’s only for the all apps tab, and it organizes apps by their purpose, and you don’t have to click the folder to expand it and then click the icon, as you can just click the icon and it will launch it. I’ve been using Windows 11 since it came out, and the all apps tab is something I have barely ever used. All my important stuff is neatly organized in one single tab of my home star menu screen, and anything that is not there I’ll just look it up with search.
Looks even worse than the one they had before
Linux and gnome pretty much gtfo of the way for me - as an OS should. I used to care a lot about what Microsoft did, now I couldn’t care less - F em
KDE is the best and much easier and polished to ex windows users
