They've not added anything new, you could already make them pretty much do what Win 11 does, in Win 10 - it's just that most people chose not to. Now there are some good reasons for changing things, but what they've done to the start menu and the taskbar have just made them objectively worse. While I agree with you that users are resistant to change - this is perfectly understandable. On my personal system, Win 11 seems faster in UI response time and the Desktop experience is somewhat clean & less cluttered than both Win 7 and Win 10 (which was their intention). It seems close now, maybe another 1/2 year or so, then I will probably switch over as the daily driver. I have no problem with Win 11's interface, I am only waiting until stability and bugs are reduced to the level of 'modest' patches required rather than the current (seemingly frequent) 'fix it now' revelations. If left to the resister's opinion on changes, we'd probably all still be using teletype terminals. People were 'perfectly OK' with the dial when pushbuttons replaced it on telephone remember how much resistance there was to the widespread adoption of fuel injection over carburetors? There is a natural resistance to change, and that resistance is often placed into the form of "I like it just the way it is, thank you very much" regardless of how much the paradigms around that object has changed. There are people that have stated that they would still be using Win3.11's Program Manager if they could, for goodness sake. You all fail to miss the point: at EVERY stage of development, in every OS UI, pretty much someone will say that "It is fine, don't change it!". Oh and Windows ME was still worse than 8 - but only just. Although I think I slightly prefer 10 to 7. Hopefully I can ride this out until the inevitable Windows 12, where they put things back with only a few changes kept for pride's sake - as with Win 10. The new settings menu is also terrible, but I've not got Win11 on my computer yet, so haven't looked into something to fix that. Though I imagine OpenShell might end up being the best and certainly the most flexible. I didn't try OpenShell because it wasn't finished, and StartAllBack had already made the user happy. It's the forced grouping of icons on the task bar that's most annoying - so you have to hover the mouse over them to switch windows - so ungrouping them so you have an icon for each window is available in StartAllBack but not Start11. Startdock's Start 11 fixes the Start menu, but that's the least annoying of Microsoft's changes. But you can make things look more like Win 10 or Win 7. Weirdly it seems to default to making everything look like Windows 8 (but with a Start Menu) - which is odd, as Windows 8 was surely the least popular release. I've just installed StartAllBack on a colleague's computer, and it's pretty nice.
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