Everything I just read in that article confirms that moving to Linux (with OSX secondary) was the right choice.
Another area Microsoft focused on was improving the taskbar experience on smaller screens and touch devices.
This is Windows 8 and “metro” interface all over again. Its forcing users to bend to small devices touch screen users. Microsoft, look at your own history and see how well that worked out for you.
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because Microsoft created the new taskbar from the ground up and didn’t use the old code from Windows 10.
Which excuses nothing. You CHOSE to dump and rewrite existing, functional code, before its replacement was fully realized. You intentionally degraded your product, based on the calculation that the portion of users who don’t care would be far greater than the portion who do.
And somehow just about every one of the hundreds of linux desktop environments you can choose from features a rock solid, fully customizable taskbar(s) which can be put wherever you want. Even in gnome which doesn’t allow you to move the taskbar by default, you can still move it with an extension and it doesn’t break anything.
Just one example, in XFCE you can put a taskbar of literally any size literally anywhere. Very useful if you have a broken corner of your screen, you can throw a taskbar there and windows will dodge it. You can even create a 1px wide taskbar right down the center of your monitor, splitting it into two spaces. All of this is completely seamless, behaves exactly how you would expect, and rock solid.
So WTF is microsoft doing exactly?
Because nobody understands how the ai coded the taskbar, including the vibe coder?
W11 was released in 2021, too early for ai. This was intentionally dropped in what appears to be removing user interference from their taskbar.
My takeaway from this is that Microsoft no longer has any core competency left in the primary area where they’re expected to have the highest level of core competency. Also really validates my decision to start moving to Linux rather than spending any more time on Windows.
This was deadass the thing that made me switch my daily driver to Linux. Moving the sidebar was so useful on multi-monitor setups.
The inability to move the taskbar to the top was literally one of my main reasons to switch to Linux. Good work, MS product manager.
Fuck it, I’m gonna vibe code an os as well.
Because it’s fucking trash.
Their marketing spin is such BS. Trying to say that the amount of rework needed for apps to provide a wonderful experience, etc. Those apps already have that “wonderful” experience in Windows 10, Microsoft just cut corners in a redesign and power users are rightfully pissed off.
