Re: RE: Start Menu
I've been pinning apps to the taskbar since... Windows 98. I remember the "Quick Launch" bar, though that was a great feature, and made use of it right away.
It took two things -- using Linux more regularly, and COVID working from home with a remote desktop -- to embrace pinning apps to my Start Menu. I don't think I've ever had many icons on my Linux desktops, so I was used to minimalism there. Using a remote desktop, my resolution at home and at work were wildly different, so the icons on my work computer would flow wildly and sometimes randomly. I had, years earlier, deleted all of the tiles from my start menus at work and at home, and then I started rebuilding the work start menu with tiles of the things I had on my desktop, eliminating icons as I went. None of Microsoft's "active tiles" stuff. Just the things I need and use.
I think if any of my coworkers saw my set-up, though, they'd be like, "How can you work that way?" Meanwhile, I walk past desks, see a hundred icons, and feel my stomach churn.