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OpenShell has been working on a classic replacement for Windows 11's Start menu

anthonyhegedus Silver badge

I'm going to get a lot of downvotes for this, but reducing the number of stupid, daft and inconvenient options is actually a good thing. Remember how much ridiculousness was in XP? All those colours you could change to make it unusable - why? So many options and it wasn't at all obvious what changed what. The OS is better for these things being removed.

So anything to make Windows 11 more consistent, less stupid-looking and more functional is a good thing.

On to more important topics - Microsoft's decision to remove setting default apps is crass beyond redemption! They *are* putting the feature back, but why the hell it was missing I don't know. Well I do know. It means that millions of early adopters are now on Edge by default, and using Bing Search by default, and a large-ish percentage probably will never realise that it's changeable.

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