@screem@twtxt.net Whether you like the design or not, the User eXperience, I think, has gotten even worse in comparison to 10. The trend of the industry (read: Windows, Mac OS, and default Ubuntu to an extent) is to make everything beyond opening the (default) Web browser more difficult.
Want to create a shortcut in Windows 11? It used to be right there in the Explorer right click menu. Now, it’s only accessible in the old menu accessed from clicking an option in the new right click menu. What are you making shortcuts for, peasant? You’re lucky they let you do advanced things like “making shortcuts” and “installing software from outside the walled garden” at all.
…it has the main features a general user could want…
Shortcut creation, open with, file properties, options for third party software like 7-zip, and more are all hidden behind another click. The old menu was more functional because everything you needed was right there.
…easier to navigate…
It’s much harder to navigate because the things you use most often are now relegated to tiny icons with no labels so you have to guess which one will do what you want.
What’s more, the icons are all the same 2 or 3 colors. Remembering “the box and the line with the cursor on it is rename” is much more difficult to remember than “the one that says ‘Rename’ is rename” or even “the blue one is rename”.
If I remember correctly, you can’t even go off of position in the list because only the options that are applicable will show up. For example, if you don’t have anything on the clipboard, the paste button isn’t grayed out, it’s just gone.
…I don’t agree with the narrative of Microsoft trying to make things harder to do to keep you in their ecosystem…
Microsoft is leveraging their position as the vendor of your operating system to manipulate you into using their Web browser. I hope they pay dearly for this, but I doubt they will.
I shared a video I found that goes through this, and I had a little bit too much fun with ffmpeg so it’s available in three formats.
- Original 720p H.264/AAC [93.8 MiB]
- 720p H.265/AAC [33.1 MiB]
- 480p VP9/Opus [36.4 MiB]