XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Has Windows 11's user interface yet caught up with that of Windows 10?   
       
      
   When you look at an operating system as a system that YOU use most, then   
   you realize the user interface is the part you control first & foremost.   
      
   The Windows 11 user interface is, IMHO, vastly inferior to that of Win10.   
   But if someone can disabuse me of that assessment, I'd like to know more.   
      
   Mainly because I don't test Windows 11. I've only installed it sans MSA.   
   And that was for a grandkid (whom I taught how to organize computers).   
      
   From the little I know of Windows 11, it appears to be a punitive downgrade   
   from Windows 10 at least in terms of the GUI we all interact with daily.   
       
      
   I put together systems as a living for decades in the Silicon Valley, so   
   the systems I used for Windows 95 and up on corporate systems and expensive   
   million-dollar (SunOS/Solaris) software was to organize EVERYTHING by what   
   functionality they have. Not brand name. Not whimsical fruit names.   
      
   Functionality.   
      
   Every bit of software "does something" no matter what the platform.   
       
      
   Everything that is not data, fits into those dozen functional folders.   
    {archivers, browsers, cleaners, editors, finance, games, etc}   
      
   Removing the plural (unless it's required, as with 'news') makes that.   
   list becomes {archiver, browser, cleaner, editor, finance, game, etc}.   
      
   This works for everything you can think of, where there is no concept of   
   the catch-all of "misc" or "util" crutch we've all used in the past.   
      
   The system is (almost) foolproof, as it does away with Microsoft's   
   idiotically polluted Start menu (both the binary tiles & shortcuts).   
      
   You can just copy the menu folder from one system to another.   
   And it all just works.   
      
   You can copy a WindowsXP folder to Windows 10, and it still just works.   
   It's genius.   
      
   And yet, it's trivially simple.   
   I liken it to how everyone organizes their fork/spoon/knife drawers.   
      
   First, I make a software hierarchy to place the original installers   
    mkdir C:\software\{archiver, browser, cleaner, editor, finance, game, etc}   
      
   Then I make an app hierarchy to install all the programs into:   
    mkdir C:\app\{archiver, browser, cleaner, editor, finance, game, etc}   
      
   Then I mkdir the menu hierarchy pinned to the taskbar for a pullout cascade   
    mkdir C:\menu\{archiver, browser, cleaner, editor, finance, game, etc}   
      
   Oh wait. Did I say pinned taskbar pullout menus?   
       
      
   You can't use user-controlled taskbar-pinned accordions in Windows 11.   
       
      
   One of the strongest features of Windows is (apparently) gone in Win11.   
      hardware   
      
   Why?   
      
   Somebody please tell me why Microsoft removed user-populated menus?   
   Q: What benefit did Microsoft get in removing taskbar pullout cascades?   
   A: ?   
   --   
   When you look at an operating system as a system that YOU control,   
   then you realize the user interface is the part you control most.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)