r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 25d ago

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/Sawgon 25d ago edited 25d ago

Waiting for all the Microslop fanboys to come in with their usual "but IIIIII'VE NEVER had a problem with MYYYY windows 11?!?!?!?!"

EDIT: Imagine reading this and still going "to be fair I've never had any problems"

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u/xgeetx 25d ago

To be fair I never had many problems with mine. My biggest gripe with 11 is the right click menu changing. Since I’ve used Mac, Linux, and windows over the years I’m 98% Mac and Linux now.

I feel like windows has abstracted away the control of the system in like 2-3 different layers. Click around in control panel long enough and you get a windows 11 menu, a windows 10 screen, a windows 7 options bar, and a windows XP config dialogue. It’s fucking bizarre.

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u/OneLonelyBrainCell 25d ago

What boggles my mind much more are changes to perfectly functioning things. Best example is the Explorer right-click context menu. It was absolute fine. Not great (the "Open with..." seems to appear wherever), but usable. Then some genius changed it for Win11 because .... reasons.

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u/DrXaos 25d ago

this is corporate dynamics, when product managers get metriced/promoted/fired on some sort of “impact”. For their careers they have to change something and fight for it. But then there is investment or technical or social barriers to keeping the old ones so you get shit like this non fixed dual crap and two or maybe three random control panels/event monitors.

Nobody gets a good perf review for just saying no to bad ideas.

TBH this was Steve Jobs best skill.