I found that pinning didn't work either but I restarted the PC (which was the first time I restarted the PC since installing Win 11) and now everything works as intended for pinning. I also noticed my realtek sound control panel also hadn't loaded in the taskbar but after that first restart that also loaded up and works perfectly. Changing scaling also increases the size of the taskbar, personally I like larger icons.
Thank you. Downloaded and installed. So far everything works like a charm. Is it possible to have quick launch toolbar or something similar?
I must admit gaming performance on Win 11 is top notch so far. Just played over 90 minutes of Borderlands 3 at max setting 1440p and GPU usage was pegged at 99% the card was drawing 312W most the time and frame rates were well over 150-160fps with near perfect frame times. Whereas Win 10 struggled and GPU usage would drop randomly, the card would draw 250-280W and never touched 300W. Frame rate in Win 10 was around 120-140fps but frame times were a bit messy. Going to do more testing with other games but this for a first release is looking very impressive indeed. Yea I think it has something to do with installing Win 11 over the top of Win 10 (which is what I did). There was no setup for Win 11 it just booted back into the login screen for me after it installed.
You guys sure are selling me on W11, but I chose LTSB for a reason, so until there's an equivalent I guess I'll just have to miss out.
do you realize the crippled the taskbar and the start menu personalization and updated like 10-20 icons? that's the new gui. The rest is bing spam.
You're better off on LTSB, hell even updating to LTSC before Win11 is rtm is a better route.. As first builds go it is pretty good but it is not fully stable and has all the initial niggles and glitches associated with it. Running on older hardware which you're not bothered about or using a VM are better options currently imo, or dump it on a secondary drive and dual-boot but I've not tested that yet.
I like the UI changes. I don't care that its not rebuilt from the ground up. I care about a modern look and consistency to that look this is at the very least working towards that in a more real way than 10 did. Here's hoping that keeps up and they don't just stop in the middle. Task Manager needs it next. The Properties window. Then work on the lesser used but still relevant stuff like Event Viewer, Group Policy, etc.
I'm still testing stuff out but I can tell ya already that I'm not going back to win10. The OS feels much much smoother. Yeah some stuff changed, you need to tinker a bit and search where some of the stuff is, but so what? Change is inevitable, specially regarding tech. Some people like to act like oldfarts ranting about how everything in win7 or whatever works so much better but the truth is that people don't like change. Just adapt and move on.
The new UI does look like some Linux clone. But whatever. The UX is horrendous - this is the biggest issue. And I have zero hopes that they will fix it in three months left till release. It will probably take them 2-3 years so somewhere around Win11 24H1 it will become about as good as Win10 21H1 is right now. I'm getting strong Win8 -> Win8.1 vibes from this release...
You do realise this is the first official beta/test release, right? things like more personalization will be improved upon later down the line. Here is what I think they have improved upon so far with my usage: The improved icons are actually really well done and welcome upgrade. The new start menu is minimalistic in design but works and is also a welcome upgrade. Search is vastly improved over the horrendous Win 10 search. The new settings window is VASTLY better than Windows 10, way less clutter and is becoming a much better alternative to control panel. The multiple desktops is a wet dream for better, more fluid productivity with a PC. Windows Updates are insanely fast, had 3 updates so far and they installed within seconds. Win 10 was terrible for updates. Much better scaling than ever before now going above the recommended doesn't blur/blow up the image, it scales perfectly. The new multiple window snap feature is again an ultra wide monitor users wet dream and a welcome upgrade. The animation improvements are exceptional, been using the OS for 2 days and Windows has never ever felt so fluid and smooth before. General performance improvements within the OS is showing a lot, everything so far is just plain faster. Gaming performance seems to have been a key focus with all games I've tested showing some form of improvements. On face value, sure it just looks like a new lick of paint and for the most part it is. But they have improved on so much, using Win 10 as a base and going from there. It's what's under the hood where I believe the real changes are, I believe they have rewritten a vast chunk of the code and optimised for pure speed over all. It shows big time. This is the first Windows OS update I can safely say that actually feels like a true modern operating system and a true upgrade. I don't think I've been this impressed with the update since Vista. Yes I said Vista. Sure that was buggy, laggy, and performed like crap. But visually going from XP to Vista it felt "next gen". That is the feeling I get from Win 11, only this time the speed and performance is truly there.
I actually went full retard and hopped in the dev channel on my main workstation. Got a ton of apps with plugins installed. Everything went so smooth that i just couldn't really believe it. Since I've 3 monitors my only two complaints are that individual per-monitor wallpapers are gone. And when i drag a window in-between monitors my mouse doesn't get stuck on the monitor border for easy snap now. Its kinda hard to fast snap, gotta take my time now. Otherwise in terms of performance it is literally one to one with windows 10. Minimizing games is instant however, feels like a bug every time i try it, guess sometimes something as simple as that when seen being done flawlessly looks weird lol. //P.S Oh almost forgot, AUTO HDR. Jeezus f*king christ. If you have an oled, always turn it on when playing whatever game doesn't have its own native hdr.
Any have the issue with defender always needing turning on upon every boot or restart? I mean more options not a redesign, such as taskbar icon size which is missing but can be added in through regedit.
Do you realise it won't change at all? (and which changes are: more wastes space, rounding windows, more wastes space, removed the few personalization options left). They removed personalization across start and taskbar, raised hw requirements for UPGRADES across the same codebase, changed the name and here we go W11. You already had a minimalistic option, really minimal, on start, and was simply removing the junk/spam of tiles.
