“When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge.”
This is such utter fucking nonsense. They already have to deal with the concept of a “client area” that encompasses variable-sized screens and (worse) the multiple-monitor situation. Movable task bar is trivial.
They didn’t just rewrite it, they rewrote it in
fecesReactI guess the AI writing windows 11 code keeps getting the taskbar wrong.
You also can’t add folders as toolbars anymore.
That’s quite an article to say they forgot about it after re-writing the task bar for no reason. It’s such a basic expected feature.
Probably written by CowPilot
laughs in KDE
Most windows products get slightly shittier with each new release.
I miss the old days, when the opposite seemed true about every other major release, though the early bars were low so that was straight progress for 1.0 through 95.
TLDR: We rewrote the taskbar and didn’t bother implementing it.
The amount of bullshit is incredible. The DE sets the windows position. The DE tells the apps what’s the “usable” desktop area. It worked for decades. And now “you can’t imagine the amount of work”
Fuck you microsoft. Not that I care anymore. Even your excuses are pathetic.
Join team Linux!
Quote from Microsoft…“You will be happy in your work!”. /s
So many people at work are having frustrating issues with Windows now.
It takes so fucking long to start up. Sure, you get a desktop and can open a program, but it just keeps locking up repeatedly for a good 20 minutes while whatever bloatware is running in the background during startup.
They cram OneDrive down your throat and it has constant issues.
They put so much shit in your way, in the name of “productivity” it makes your actual productivity worse.
FUCK COPILOT.
It’s the one drive cramming that really gets me, well also changing the right click context menu to hide cut and paste, wtf.
But seriously, not letting you move the Onedrive pin down the hotlinks sidebar out of the way? Extremely annoying.
Install Linux Problem Solved.
This phrase should be made a bumper sticker. Or spraypainted anywhere.
Until you accidentally delete the taskbar panel.
Re-install Linux, problem solved.
They just don’t want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you’d be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
They’ll only allow those generated using Copilot.
“Copilot, change the wallpaper to a DSC20260512.JPG.”
“I’m sorry, you can only change the wallpaper to images generated by Copilot!”
“Ok, change the wallpaper to a picture of my Daughter Graduating.”
“Sure! Here’s a picture of a young woman graduating set to your wallpaper.”
“That isn’t my daughter, my daughter isn’t a blonde white girl with massive tits, please change back to my previous wallpaper.”
“Sure, here’s a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
“My last wallpaper was a photo I took of The Flying Scotsman, also that picture of a Scottish glen has an offensive stereotype of a Scottish Man fucking a sheep while drinking a bottle labeled ‘Buckfast and Heroin’.”
“Here is a picture of a Scottish Glen.”
Microsoft wants to use the Taskbar for advertising. They can’t do that if users can move it around or hide it.
