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My initial 30 days of use opinion is simply. No it is not yet "worth" upgrading to from Win10. Sanding down corners, and feeding the insatiable thirst to jigger with the start menu EVERY major update is tiring. While I don't use it alot, the regression to not be able to move the taskbar from its bottom position is a miss for me. Even with the reg hacks its barely usable. That allegedly will be "fixed" though.
The context menu change was a bit jarring especially in cases where there are sub menus for things.. But I can at least acknowledge it as an attempt to evolve usability and not be purely change for sake of change. Considering I currently only have 1 PC that actually meets MS requirements to upgrade, I am certainly not tripping overmyself to make the full conversion. It works fine on my surface pro 7 for the workloads I give it. I will stay on Win10 for everything else until 11 falls on my lap or until there is some compelling reason to switch.
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because the start menu looks way to close to apple crap, I'm holding off until new options are available. If I have too, then I'll buy stardoc and replace the start menu.
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I just keep using Classic Shell (now called Open Shell) as my start menu. Has been working great for me for quite a while now. It's suppose to work on Win 11 too, though I haven't personally tried it yet. I'm going to wait a few years for Windows 11 changes to settle down before I bother installing it.
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I kind of like the shortened menus, was wondering if they had a setting to 'learn' the ones not shown in the shorter menu to add the most common each of us uses?
also - anyone see anything about closing the line spacing between lines in explorer? a lot of screen space wasted on that new feature...
-h
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Some researchers claim to have theorized a type of quantum computer which requires but one qubit and which operates at room temperature Further it utilizes photons and a single atom which acts as a kind of programmable qubit as best as I understand - Cheerio
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Good is an interesting adjective.
As engineers, developers, nerds, etc... we all seemingly want faster computers. Yes, we love to reminisce about the old days - 8088 processors and the like but none of us will give up our Core i7s unless it's for something faster. Right?
But quantum computers are something else entirely. Suddenly todays best encryption schemes become junk. AI becomes EPICALLY powerful. Deep fakes become impossible to detect. Blockchain? How quaint! Not to mention the direct military possibilities.
Is humankind really ready for functional / affordable quantum computing?
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This human is ready for all the problems it will solve to aid humanity As for its' destructive capabilities those are not obvious to me
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Blablabla. Has nothing to do with the real world.
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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If it is true it may soon be At one time landing on the moon had nothing to do w/ the real world
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The moon landing gave us some real advances in technology.
Quantum computing only gave us headlines for clickbait. It been touted for years, yet still doesn't exist.
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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Do you believe quantum computing will never exist
As for the moon mission I believe manned space flight is stupid as I see it as merely as stunt For one thing it is harmful to the astronauts For another any technology derived from it I assume would be invented to solve other problems as needs be I favor robotic exploration My fantasy is a space station manned by tele-operated robots performing high value zero-g manufacturing The only benefit of manned exploration by NASA as far as I am concerned is its' demonstration to the Chinese of their inferiority to the USA as I dislike their uppity attitude I hope you are not a Chinese national as if Mr. Xi would permit access to this site - Cheerio
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It's another solution looking for a problem. We know they're making technical advances but they haven't done any significant problem solving. That's why you can get free access to quantum computers.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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We didn't get our Jetsons cars, but we did get the cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I would have much rather had the Jetson cars over the present dystopia!
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I feel like, at least I'm well positioned for it some ways?
I just don't want to become part of the problem. (And here I'm being serious). No more worker monitoring and "productivity" apps for me because of how they are abused. No weapons software or hardware. No work for the military since their primary function revolves around weapons so even support is still to that end. And I'm very careful about government anything - primarily limiting myself to energy projects and such if I had to pin it down right now. It limits my employment prospects, but everyone has their lines, and their reasons. I don't judge others for the most part for not having the same lines I do - I think there's a lot of room for people to decide what they're willing to take part in without me having to weigh in on it. Some people don't eat meat. You know?
All of that is because for me, those things contribute to our encroaching dystopia given I believe that we are being forced to adapt as a species to technology, rather than the other way around as often as not, if not more often. It's biting us in the backside collectively often enough that we're clearly not ready for it even as we must be. I don't want to accelerate the problem.
I'd rather harness what we have, and learn how to use it more effectively. Sometimes I think our (dis)information age is killing us.
Tech is a double edged sword. I'm not afraid of it, but then I'm not afraid of guns by themselves either. It's more about who is wielding them and how much I trust them.
But that's me being serious. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, because I haven't put in the work to make a clear moral argument for my position. I just go with what I can live with at the end of the day, where the above is concerned.
*hides*
Edit: lots of edits. i need more coffee. it's one of those days.
Real programmers use butterflies
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If it makes you feel any better, I do know some Trumpers who bought into quite a lot of the bullshit who are now starting to delve deeper, and see that they were sold a bag of crap. Specifically, they went to Mike Lindel's site and actually looked at the attachments for the Supreme Court filing he promised, which no Attorney General signed onto. When they read it they saw that everything is based on possibilities, not evidence of actual wrongdoing. The attachments don't even support many of the assertions in the filing! It is a complete waste of paper, as far as actual proof is concerned, but I guess it helped sell some pillows.
Hopefully, that change in those I know helps show that we might make it out of this morass intact. Hopefully...
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You want people to be driving in three dimensions? Most can't handle two dimensions. 
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Yes he was. The Echo 1 communications satellite was described in a 1949 Clarke short story.
As for that image, it looks more like a Borg Cube than a monolith.
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We tend to think of space exploration as involving high speeds. Seems this rover can do 80metres in 3 months. Almost a metre per day. We have plants[^] that can grow that fast! 0.00002mph.
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