Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI The massive update to Windows 11 rolled out this week is proving to be a headache for users who are running some third-party UI customization applications on their devices. Microsoft said that after applying the KB5022913 February 2023 non-security preview update – also called Moment 2 – Windows systems with some of those UI …
Because you keep removing the supported methods, dickbags.
Yes, MS, just stop fucking around with the UI all the time and make it simple, easy to navigate (i.e. intuitive) and functional, instead of the screwed up abortions you've signed off on since Win8. What use is a menu when it doesn't show something you know should be there and you have to run a search for it to appear? If you'd done the UI properly in the first place we wouldn't be using third-party apps to reintroduce basic functionality that had been present for over twenty years.
"What use is..."
It's, along with every other retrograde step in UI design over the past decade or thereabouts, a job creation scheme for the latest generation of UI designers/ego-boosting scheme for the latest generation of product managers - if you're not being seen to be doing something obvious, then you're clearly not necessary or important... Merely tweaking and fine tuning an existing design to keep it working as intended is not sufficient, you MUST be bold, you MUST think BIG, you MUST treat the work of your predecessors as utterly valueless and fit only for the scrapheap, as you strive to stamp your vision on what you think a UI should be, decades of hard-earned research and experience be damned!
As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan of modern UIs...
Is there anything in this article that takes anyone by surprise?
What I don't understand is why people expect these third party modifications to survive in an environment in which someone else wants to define the look and feel (along with everything else).
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Someone here has already suggested that it is (only now?) time to look for an alternative.
Someone else will bang on about their enterprise install and how it's just not that easy even if they wanted to.
A third will chirp on about so many Linux distros and fragmentation.
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This may be a radical idea, but if Microsoft are having problems working around tools to customise the Windows interface, they could provide an official mechanism to install your own. They would need to warn users that any non Microsoft windows interfaces are not supported by Microsoft, and they would need to ensure all parts of the UI run in the user space (which, TBH, they should be anyway).
I quite like the Windows 11 UI. It's not perfect, but I am generally happy with it, but I'd like the freedom to replace it with (say) the LCARS computer interface from Star Trek: TNG. Preferably without breaking my Windows install.
What I don't like is that Microsoft keep putting links to different apps on my start menu. If I want an app on my start menu, I will add it. I don't need Microsoft putting links to Candy Crush, Office, Skype, Bing or any other crap they want to advertise.
Setting up new computers is kinda depressing.
Not only do you have to face the bleak prospect of a blank Windows, which comes with very little included.
You have to deal with the manufacturers bloatware and on top of it with Redmond's bloat as well.
The sad thing is, Redmond's bloat seems to be on a per-user basis.
Once a new user logs in, he/she sees all the bloat that the previous user of the same computer has laboriously removed.
I am not a Windows fan, and am in violent agreement with you, but I do have to query an apparent contradiction in what you said:
> which comes with very little included
followed by
>You have to deal with the manufacturers bloatware and on top of it with Redmond's bloat as well.
Which is it? "Very little included" or "deal with bloatware"?
Personally I'd rather have the former. Give me a basic OS with functional network drivers and a WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE EDGEnon-retardedEDGE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY browser and I LET'S GIVE YOU A FULLSCREEN UNSKIPPABLE TOUR OF EDGEcan take it from there myself and get the stuff I want. Yes, Microsoft, that Edge crap is exactly what I mean.
Yeah, sorry; it should read "very little useful stuff included"
Everything you need is expensive, or hard to get, or both.
Everything you don't need, you get for free.
I know, it's apples and oranges comparing a vanilla Windows install with a vanilla Linux install, because the latter has a whole world of software baked into its package repository.
But, when you look at the on-board tools Windows comes along with; many feel tears welling up.
Even so "simple things" like text editors, command line prompts, ... I say no more, I fell unwell.
Satya Nadella breaks his front door key. He asks a locksmith to make him a new one. When he tries it, it doesn't work. He complains to the locksmith.
'There is nothing wrong with your upgraded key, Sir,' replies the locksmith. 'Unfortunately the paint on your front door is incompatible with it and you will have to access your house through the toilet window for the next few months until we can get around to sorting it out'.
Well I always put my desktop back to basically a Win 98 mode - I've done that since they started getting cute with the front end (the stupid 'tiles' business) - I need everything just the way I'm used to thank you ! Stop messing around - Windows is just a software container sitting on top of Dos & those of us who coded way back when do not want to be 'contained' in your world
any more than we have to be ! The only 'improvement' I see with current Windows is the ability to allocate & buy permanent cloud storage. I have uber gobs of data on my system & that is very helpful, otherwise Windows is simply a means to organize & manage all the functions you really need to do - we do not need "Microsoft Daddy" to organize our lives !
I wonder if MS enforced "updates" could result in legal challenges from people with certain medically defined disabilities. Some mental illnesses and disabilities make it extremely difficult for some people to accept or adapt to changes. At least in the past, you could install Windows and then never install an update unless you chose to. Now, every time you switch on, there's the possibility that the basic desktop could be different never mind that other stuff has changed, moved, been removed or added.
@vcragain: I'm not implying that this is you, but the way you wrote sort of implies that you don't like change, which triggered the above :-)
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