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Having tried it on my Surface Pro a while back and not liking it , is anyone on here happy with it ? can it be set it up to resemble Win 10 cosmetically if not functionally ( I've only just got used to Win 10 ) I feel if I continue to resist upgrading the more painful it will be when I'm forced to. My ex father in law had a great saying: "What you resist persists"
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Using it...
Not a big deal to me, I decided to "upgrade" to avoid a mess with some industrial software license.
By now, my laptop works more or less as it did before, just a couple of bugs bother me:
1. from time to time I need to restart because the notification area gets withe-ish background with white letters (impossible to read anything there).
2. When graphics are involved, sometimes it crashes and resets the graphics user (game or similar).
More pleasant sounds, nicer graphical organization of things, less powerful start menu, more clicks to select the computer power settings...
for my use case (programming industrial applications) it works.
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Running it since the release Small driver issue causing dwm.exe to leak memory now and then. Not a big deal in my situation, but would be annoying if tight on RAM. Apparently there is a fixed driver from Intel, but Dell did not yet roll it out through their driver install app, and it is not problematic enough for me to bother hitting a manual download link like one or another peasant. 
I do run a 3rd party app to get the time on all monitors.
Besides that, not much going on. It is just Windows 10.0.22000 - not even 10.1. Marketing just decided to call it Windows 11.
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Been on W11 for a week. The buttons on the taskbar align in center, instead of left. Also took me a minute to copy/paste in Explorer, since it hides those options by default.
No complaints otherwise.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: he buttons on the taskbar align in center, instead of left.
Right-click the taskbar and select Taskbar options ⇒ Taskbar behaviours ⇒ Taskbar alignment: left. 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: it hides those options by default
It doesn't hide them - they're right at the top of the new context menu. They just don't have labels next to them, so you have to guess which icon relates to which option. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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... and ^C ^V still work for copy + paste; as do ^X ^V for move, F2 for Rename, and Del for delete
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No major problems, so far.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I have it on both Surface and desktop - it's OK, but the children have been playing and there and "Nice things" you could do in 10 that 11 doesn't allow as the script kiddies that wrote the new stuff didn't care to look at what it did. So the taskbar is stuck to the bottom of your main monitor (or all of them) instead of you deciding where you wanted it (and it's taller as well); windows explorer right click menu has sod-all in it (to rename a file you have to right click, then select "show more options" to see the original right click menu); the redesigned apps no longer highlight the title bar so you can see which is the active app; Some apps now get rounded corners (but not all of them); that sort of thing.
There are a couple of good bits - the entry textbox is more obvious in some apps thanks to a solid blue line at the bottom. And ... oh, give me time, I'll think of something ... Nope. That's about it.
It's OK. it's not "Win7 vs Win8" again, it's just ... rather bland and unexciting.
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Not yet,
Work PC, IT not yet approved it,
Personal PC does not have the TPM chip.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Not yet, and not ever. I see no value added to Windows 11 that would persuade me to upgrade.
The home computer doesn't meet the minimal requirements, and IT at work have not decided to upgrade.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I was reluctant to get it but about a month ago I finally installed it and am happy with it. I've found a couple of minor problems but overall seems stable and intuitive.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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My current gripe with W11 is that my mouse jumps rather that moving smoothly and click seem to take a while to be acknowledged; meaning that I have had documents where bocks of text appear to randomly be moved about as old mouse moves and clicks take place in different places from where they were when I did the actions; and it also causes me to have to click the 'shutdown' button twice
It is not the mouse - it is connected via a KVM to two PCs, the other is a W10 and it is fine on that and I've tried swapping ports on the KVM.
My past niggles include the centered task bar (various safe resolutions including the one in one of the earlier responses to this thread); and not being able to r-click the task bar to get Task Manager - easily got around by putting Task Manager as an icon on the task bar.
I also have a minor problem with Outlook 2021 (native, not O365) which is unresponsive (e.g. you cannot open emails / select folders) when it is doing a Send/Receive; but I do not know if that is related to W11 or not - it did not happen with Outlook 2019 on W10.
Apart from that, W11 seems OK to me. It looks a bit different but it is still handles like other versions of Windows (98, XP, 7, 10).
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Updated a couple of VM's and it is OK. No worries. I am using it more than 10. Like any other Windows "update", takes some getting used to and customization. If the masses are going to run it and I need to make sure my code runs, I adopt it. I neither love nor hate the OSes I use. I just try to adjust and minimize my bitching.
I do not own a computer with native Windows.
My native OSes are still LMDE, ESXi, and TrueNAS. I do not champion them, I just use them.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I once again found myself in need of sketching some diagram on the computer. I'm used to deal with Dia, a dozen other UML programs, PowerPoint and whatsnot, due to my previous companies not wanting to spend anything on anything.
This time I'm no longer working for an el-cheapo company so I tried for the first time Microsoft Visio. Where the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) was it when I needed it?? It is easy, fast, comfortable and the output layouts actually don't suck.
Say what you will against Microsoft but some of their products are actually very good.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Say what you will against Microsoft but some of their products are actually very good
They are: Excel and Visual Studio for example: both excellent.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Excellence is not reached when you can't think of another feature to be stuffed into a product. It is reached when there is nothing unneeded left to remove.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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First piece of software that impressed me was Lotus 123
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Also Visual Studio Code is really very good.
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I don't like it much, it has too many restrictions on the positioning of panes an it has no pane autohide. I also ended up crashing it multiple times trying to move the output pane where I wanted.
Better than many alternatives but I find its UI confusing.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Will definitely try. I usually didn't use online apps because my first company and most customers of the conslutancy company I worked for had strict Internet access policies.
Apparently here I can only use Visio webapp, which is not bad though there is no way to keep lines to fixed angles (i.e. 45-90-...). Other that this, I'm loving it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Van that is right on the border? (8)
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Frontier ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Well done - you are up tomorrow!
Care to explain for the others?
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