Windows 11 Review

Recently I upgraded my Windows installation to Windows 11! Overall the UI looks nice to me.

Some really awful things:

• You need to right click twice to get context menu
• No vertical taskbar
• You cannot show all icons on taskbar
• If you run the Win10->Win11 updater without admin privilege, it will fail at 74% with a random error code
• More Microsoft ad… I want to use Firefox, not Edge…

After the update, Windows Terminal is very nice (although PowerShell is still awful… it tries to override curl and wget). Also, there is a notepad with dark mode!

Actually, the notepad is still there… There’s something called “app execution alias”, which sounds like a Microsoft-style idea (one more redirection layer!)

and if you turn “notepad.exe” off, the old notepad comes back!