TECH TALK
Windows 10 vs. Windows 11
OH, WINDOWS 11, how I love to hate you. Change for the sake of change doesn’t sit well with me, and Windows 11 has completely altered the comfortable Windows 10 house I’ve been living in since 2015. A new coat of paint would have been fine, but it seems as though the UI designers also felt the need to rearrange the furniture, switch around the drawers, and clean house a bunch of functionality that I liked. This is not okay.
Jarred Walton
Context menus now require an extra click to get at the menu I actually wanted, but what’s worse is the way some functionality is simply gone. I may be the exception, but I want all my system tray icons to always be visible. I’ve encountered far too many PCs where more than a dozen ‘utilities’ are running in the background sucking down system resources. Even worse, some malware sits in the system tray, and hiding icons by default is a terrible idea. On Windows 10 and earlier, there’s a simple toggle to show all icons, but Windows 11 killed it.