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I have all traces of Edge completely removed from my Windows 11 install.

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I’m not as techy as people around lemmy. Some time has gone by since W11 got released, what do you think of it?

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I just dipped my toe in the last few days or so. It’s missing some QoL that existed in previous versions.

I run 3 monitors. My center one is my primary display with the other 2 just being extra real estate. I wanted my taskbar to be on the left monitor and out of the way. On W10, you’d unlock the taskbar, drag it to the monitor you wanted it, then lock it up again.

W11 will either let you have it on all of your monitors or only your primary monitor. I don’t want all my stuff opening on a secondary monitor by default.

I know it’s petty, but it’s frustrating to have an easy feature stripped

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Wanting good usability isn’t petty

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From taskbar settings, they removed “Never” combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons.

Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can’t do that in W11 without a third party patcher.

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Also, please, don’t fall for the Reddit (and now Lemmy) bizarre habit of showing a screenshot of Windows using 4 GBs of RAM and claiming “iT’s AlL tHe bLoaT” because that’s not how Windows’ RAM allocation has worked for the past two decades.

RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

You can think that it’s normal to do a bunch of things that threaten the system stability to get an OS that barely pretends it’s not spying on you anymore. I do not think it’s. I don’t think it’s normal to have to disable advertising on a paid system, but to each their own “¯_(ツ)_/¯”.

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That’s what I was most worried about, i’d heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I’ll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible.

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Firefox? Since chrome is the worse version of edge and brave is ran by an asshole (also not big on privacy)

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