Some of our FP members have provided us with a couple workarounds for some of these and we wanted to address the certificate expiry. This does help protect against malware, but it shouldn't expire. You can use a registry edit to disable online search if you're comfortable doing so. You can still make offline accounts by removing your internet connection after you reach the account creation page, go back and open that page again, then once it's created reconnect your internet. Another alternative is to type in only one letter when asked for your email and password, apparently the setup will prompt you that something went wrong and you'll then be able to make an offline account.

It drives me absolutely insane that Window's start menu search uses web results. If I WANTED to search the web, I would've opened a browser. I hate this feature with a passion in windows 10.

I remember when I was excited to see new versions of Windows, now I'm just terrified how much more buggy it will be

My suspicion is that Microsoft prioritises Web results on Search to give them extra hits for Microsoft Bing. They don't want to give you the option to change the priority because it could slightly reduce Bing's market share. It's for the benefit of Microsoft, not the user.

There was never a major need to create a new OS design (11), each windows 8.1 or 10 'major update' was always a new OS revamp. They could have concentrated on fixing security issues, adding more customisation to keep users happy, and reducing the amount of bloated features many won't use that do little but kill off third party competition

So many new additions feel like anti-QOL features. Microsoft seems to hire people with odd definitions of 'user friendly'.

My main issue is the lack of customization. You can barely customize the start menu, can't change the start menu, can't remove the recommended section, can't move the taskbar, can't resize taskbar icons and the new ricght click menu is horrible. I've been using W11 for a few months now since the early dev channel days and literally nothing has changed or improved since then. The sad thing is that all of that can be fixed instantly with third party software like start11, but that really shouldn't even be required and that all of it worked perfectly fine in W10.

Removal of folder thumbnail previews for images and videos was a deal breaker for me. And despite a fix being released to easily change the default browser, setting defaults for picture viewers, video players, etc is still a pain. Oh and let's not forget that MS got so obsessed over requiring a MS account to set up Windows 11 home that they forgot the possible scenario of a computer having no network adapters (or missing network adapter drivers). In that case, it's just a dead end at the connect screen as there are no networks to choose and you can't click next (there is a workaround).

You need to do another one of these, especially after they've been hacked through remote login which they did not take seriously, forcing the elimination of hdds even performance ones meant for gaming, and requiring secure boot so that you can never use Linux on the computer that you own, not them. Also might address being forced to create a Microsoft account. When you do it, I hope you address some of these issues instead of the nitty-gritty.

The most annoying thing for me is how the Internet, Wifi, and Battery Icons are now one button, which opens up a menu with way more options than you needed. It would be better if each icon had their own individual function instead.

The thing I hate most about Windows 11; is that it exists after Microsoft promised Windows 10 would be the last iteration. They said that it being "modular" they could indefinitely continue to upgrade and improve it as time went on, to support the latest advancements. In doing it this way, Windows 10 would be the last and only OS you would have to buy. ...and yet here we are.

My first gripes going from W10 to W11(22H2): - Start menu: grouping tiles in W10 was a good thing, as it was a good thing that we cloud resize the area, in W11 it is unorganized and limited in space -- getting to the right app takes longer - Desktop toolbar: the menu worked well as an alternative to the start menu (organizing the links in directories so that they would appear as a tree-view), now the latter is worse and the former is missing! - Storage pool: why doesn't it report the SN of the disks as it did in W10? It is an essential part of making sure I am removing the one drive I intend to remove. Supposedly it should report it in the disk properties, but a) it doesn't show the information (is it a bug? the label is there, but the field is empty! or is it just my PC?), b) it should have this information in the disk list view!

You forgot to mention that Win11 is doing even more data gathering (aka. Telemetry) and Win11 now requires you to to have TPM and Bit-locker enabled allowing Microsoft to ransomware you by encrypting your computer via a windows update or a certificate failure if they don't like what they saw when snooping on your PC via telemetry or do something they dislike with the Microsoft Account you are required to use to log into windows with.

My nitpick: You can't make the taskbar smaller. It's stuck at the default size, and while you can use regedit to make it appear smaller, doing so breaks it and causes it to act as if it's larger than normal, defeating the purpose of the smaller taskbar.

Probably my biggest annoyance is that you can no longer set system tray icons to 'Display All'. If you want them all displayed, you have to check each one individually, and then go back into the menu every time there's a new one and toggle it on.

Here's an update on the problems brought up in the video as of December 2023 (correct me if I'm wrong on some of this stuff): Certificate expiry bug - Fix released during and after the video was published Local account creation - Same now as when the video was published. Driver downgrading - Still apparently an issue (can't recreate this myself however). File Explorer crashing - Microsoft is apparently (slowly) working to fix the file explorer crashing/performance issues, but it is still a problem. Weather display on the taskbar - Same now as when the video was published. Taskbar right-click menu - Only change to the right-click menu was the reimplementation of the option to bring up the Task Manager, no other additions to the taskbar right-click menu besides that occurred. Taskbar clock display on multiple monitors - Reimplemented via an update since the video was published. Gaming issues - Can't verify if any of the gaming issues brought up in the video still occur myself, but I assume at least most of the issues brought up in the video are fixed by now. Window scaling issues - Can't verify if this still happens (don't have a multi-monitor setup) Update Assistant issues - Presumably fixed at this point. Taskbar overflow icons - I can't recreate the issue where you can't right-click on overflow icons in the taskbar as demonstrated in the video myself, so it must've been fixed at some point(?). UI: - Windows are still hard to resize (no changes since the video was published). - No real changes to the right-click menu on the desktop since the video was published. - Start menu is still functionally the same since the video was published (it did have some minor changes, but doesn't address the core problems mentioned in the video) - Search is functionally the same as when the video was published.

One of the biggest pains for me is having to open the settings for the volume mixer, it used to be so easy to access it. Why did they need to complicate it.

I'm surprised that with these kind of bugs Windows 11 is actually released. I think it should still be in beta.

It would be nice to have the ability to just swap between versions in the sense of design. Like you can have all the advanced features of windows 11, but if you want you can swap to the layout of windows 7, or xp, or 10 or 8 etc

I finally tried it when I bought my first system that could actually run it (I use my PCs for a long time). I haven't really used it much because right away I found something that will NEVER stop to annoy me, is driving me to distraction: One can't deactivate the grouping of items in the taskbar. It is a small thing compared to what you brought up in the video, but it just annoys me so much that I will never use win11 until they fix it. Also, my system sometimes doesn't shut down, it goes to a weird sleep mode, that still drains battery, instead. And so I regularly return to a laptop with empty battery.

My issue is with the taskbar icons, they removed the “never combine” option, so now it’s much harder to multitask. It’s like playing hide and seek trying to find the window I had just used.

"If it ain't broken, try to fix it, fail miserably." - Microsoft, 2021

Here's the 1 year update (with 22H2): 1. Fixed it with day one patch one year ago. 2. They made it even worse: even if you're running the pro version, you are "forced" to connect to the internet and to sign in to a Microsoft account (unless you press Shift+F10 and type OOBE\BYPASSNRO) 3. This depends with the OEMs actually. If it's a new Windows 11 device, you'll have no problems. Otherwise, especially if your brand doesn't update your drivers anymore, Windows Update will still install the older, Windows 10 drivers. 4. They fixed it months ago, thankfully, but the only feature missing is to disable the "hover to open" option. 4.5. Fixed it with this month's preview update, adding "Task Manager" to the taskbar context menu. Also, the other options were useless aside from task manager. As for the clock on multiple monitors, they added it months ago. 5. Problem fixed, but not entirely if you didn't install the AMD chipset drivers (don't depend on Windows Update) 6. Unfortunately that problem is not fixed, and maybe Windows 10 has that too. 7. These errors should be fixed in less than a year. Didn't try it yet as I'm always clean-installing Windows at least once every year. 8. Thankfully it works now. Didn't try it during a game yet. 9. (seven eight nine) 10. They somehow made it easier to grab from the corner, but your mileage may vary. 10.5. Unfortunately it still exists. Maybe because not all the options are implemented from the legacy context menu, but the desktop one already has all of them since day one. Strange. 11. The start menu now can have more pinned apps or recommendations, and now you can create forders, but still, you can't remove the recommended tab entirely and it's still far from the customizable Windows 10 start menu. As for searching, now it feels consistent switching from it. 11.5. That web search, which of course, it forces you to use Edge and Bing no matter what browser or search engine you're using by default, can be disabled with a registry key or with a tweaking program, but even if you don't do this, it's still better than Windows 10. TLDR, thanks to these fixes, it should be this month the actual release (RTM) of Windows 11 instead of rushing it because Intel wants to beat AMD in every single possible way, but now, combined with the absurd system requirements aimed for security, Windows 11 will be less popular than Windows 10, at least before its end of support in 2025.

I agree with the prioritization, I would like to be able to have it (local mostly) even the search (online) is so obnoxious, as well the bug you've mentioned still opens up a separate window for search rather than maintaining (search screen mitigation) that's why we have browsers (also, perhaps the main reason why they are looking at this as a workaround for Windows Help.) There were somethings even during saving (autosave) which wants you to use their (Cloud) by default, often not necessary, but, which, also creates dependency on their Software and Network. I downloaded their Microsoft Office (not 365) within 5 days it had an ad on my desktop to try 365, weird right?

Windows Vista solved the corner grabbing issue in an interesting way: with transparent borders. The borders were large enough you could grab them, but being transparent they didn't look "heavy". This was a deliberate design choice. It was an artistic solution to a practical problem.

The biggest problem I'm experiencing with current applications, it over-simplicity. I want to have more control over my stuff, not less. If companies like MS are concerned about less tech savvy users (which would be more reasonable decade ago), they could make two profiles: user friendly and advanced. Guessing what user MIGHT need, is not the way to go, and unfortunately that problem goes with more applications, not only Windows 11.

2:59 When File Explorer crashes it also gets rid of the whole taskbar including the start menu, it is literally big part of the UI. I know this because manually I restart the program sometimes.

By the way, the weather widget was put in the left of the taskbar with a recent update to Windows 11, with the aforementioned widget acting as a shortcut to the widgets panel.

As a developer, I cannot believe how all these small issues and design flaws make it through quality control and into such a major release - how they even leave the developer’s PC. I mean, Microsoft really has talented people and surely some of the best developers out there, but how can something like this happen?

This is why I am sticking to Windows 10 for the first few months. I remember I was in elementary school when Windows 10 came out, and my teacher didn't update the school computers for a couple years until after its release because, "New operating systems always have bugs". She knew hardly anything about technology, but what she said then is still true today.

There's something with the copy/cut/paste system that causes Explorer to crash, primarily when using the right-click menu instead of CTRL+ keys. I've noticed this a LOT on file renames.

@LTT, could we get another review on Windows 11 for the 22H2 update? I would like to see if these problematic hassle continue to exist after an year. Please? Thanks and love your vids. From a windows 10 user.

When Windows 8/8.1 were out, I kept using Windows 7 thanks to it's solid stability and high performance in games. I think I'm going to do the same thing with Windows 11. Windows 10 is staying on my PC for a few years, especially since I have an AMD CPU.

I see positive thing here that Linus started talking about minuses of software. He showed what's wrong with Linux, now what's wrong with Windows. Channel is big enough that software developers could pay attention to this. This may lead to producing better and more refined software (either its made by companies, either it's open source). These types of videos I really like :)

Tip for the account one. If you type in s at the mail and s at the password it reports and error and then let’s you create a local account

A video in which you compare one of the earlier versions of Windows 10 with the Windows 10 that's now up would be interesting I think. A lot of things in Windows 10 were just working fine when the OS was in it's middle early times. I never had problems finding my files, file explorer worked very snappy and start up time was almost instantly if I remember correctly. I think they became paranoid with security and scan every little thing these days, which makes it very slow.

Here's my gripe to add to the list: changing your sound mixing used to be a tiny, easy window in the bottom right. Now it opens up the full settings menu!

One of the changes that never really made sense to me, even in it's beta stages, is that one can no longer DRAG AND DROP files into the taskbar to pin them or even drop them into a program running. And I was suprised to notice that it made into the final version.

Lifetime windows and android user here. Windows 11 made me switch to Mac. And I had a Dell xps from last year.

Me 1 year later: I'm still using Windows 10

Fun fact: Auto HDR will come to Windows 10. It's currently only available in builds accessible after joining the insider program.

Imaging an alternate universe where microsoft listened to consumers and this was "11 things we LOVE about windows 11."

Would you do an update on how things are progressing with Win 11? Is it worth switching now?

I encountered all of the ones listed in this video. Still, I like Windows 11, and the weather icon is now on the taskbar since the last update. Wow, product placement in every single chapter!

You can actually bypass the MS account sign in. You just need to fail a sign in, I usually just put "a" in the account name and password fields to clear it. It redirects you to creating a local account right after.

I suppose Windows is the perfect gaming OS then. Promises a lot, but releases before the bugs are worked out and isn't really fit for use until a year or two after release.

why did they remove the "never combine" thing on the taskbar? ;-;

The biggest issues M$ has faced with its OS has been stability (pre-Win7), security (all versions), and UI (post-Win7). TBH, M$ should just separate the UI from the OS backend like Linux-based systems. That way users can customize their UI to their liking and the OS's modern benefits can be enjoyed independent of user UI preferences. One UI just isn't good enough for the modern computing landscape these days. M$ needs to realize this.

For me. The most annoying issue I have experience is "small taskbar" was removed. Before upgrading, everyone was stating that ability to move it to the sides or to the top was removed but no mention of other features. For me, I dont like the thick taskbar that windows 7 added and in 8, they added the option for "small taskbar" which shinks it down to slightly bigger then xp/vista height which is great .... But windows 11 says I must have my taskbar thick. Hate the look

The worst feature they removed is the ability to drag files onto the taskbar, which used to un-minimize the program so you could drag the file into the program.

In the process of gathering parts and building my first desktop this year, and I'm quite curious how many of these issues are still a problem almost two years later.

I finally broke down and upgraded to 11 and now my SSDs are running half speed. Hate the new interface and icons too.

Windows 11 introduces a lot of cool features, like the additional window tiling options, and then makes weird design choices. I'd prefer Windows 10 start menu tiles to a separate widgets panel, or at least allow it on desktop a la Rainmeter. What's this design trend for complete minimalism and hiding every single option beneath a billion menus requiring a billion clicks?

I can add another annoyance: If you enable hide taskbar, your sytem tray might not load on boot. To get it back, you either have to disable and reenable hide taskbar or restart the explorer. Also, some windows lag terribly when being dragged accross the desktop.

just came accross this vid and i noticed that ms actually improved some of the issues mentioned here. was not aware of how windows 11 was during launch cuz my old laptop can only handle windows 10. with my new laptop, I honestly quite enjoy windows 11 even tho the experience is kinda weird transitioning from windows 10.

I got windows 11 recently and aside from some little things I personally don't like, like that you cannot display all tray icons at all times, it works fine. I didn't have any problems yet and some things in the OS itself are faster. What I miss is the metro start, which I had customized programs on. I wish it would carry those over to the pinned start in windows 11. All in all there is not much for me currently to criticize. The context menu on the desktop is just like in windows 10 without the more options thing. Although could be because of my upgrade instead of fresh install. I do recommend to use a debloater. It makes sense to use it in most systems. Speaking of bloat - there is quite a lot in the start menu even if it's not a fresh install, but it was the same way in windows 10 so there's just that.

Does no one else find that, "dragging some file from one window and hovering over a minimized application at the taskbar to unminimize it and release the file in that app" being missing, one of the worst things in Win 11?

Windows 10 is going to be similar to how I upgraded when I had Windows 7 for me. Meaning that I'll skip Windows 11 till a Windows 12 comes out just like I skipped Windows 8 when I had Windows 7. They'd have to seriously redo many of their design choices for me to even consider it.

Can you make a follow up vid on this seeing how all the updates from the past years have changed to OS ? I am on the fence about changing to it because some of the features seem really nice for QOL.

I don't know what kind of weird setups have you used but I've never had any problems running windows 11. Also clock has been showing whole time for me. There is one really annoying feature though: Hiding system tray icons.

When in a full-screen game, Explorer often crashes every 10 seconds or so. It's extremely annoying, especially considering half the time it minimizes the game window.

Microsoft should have never gotten rid of their dedicated QA department, outsourcing your testing to a bunch of Insiders (Windows Early Access Edition) is a fucking joke.

I had a drive issue and some other things. My first week was troubleshooting because each problem had two prerequisites. Then all the bloat, I had to learn how to move my Steam finals because MS 11 has a weird protection issue with the Programs folder. And of course I hate how every new OS makes me click more times to get to an action than previous OSs. I had to hurry and get a new computer (which has the 11), but next time I want to be ready for Linux.

Something that doesn't get a lot of attention, but is probably one of the most jarring experiences I've had on a desktop OS: Virtual Desktop animations have been disabled before W11 even launched. You used to get this sliding animations like in Windows 10, but it was stuttery in W11 and so they disabled it. It has been over TWO. YEARS. and they still haven't even given people the option to re-enable it. I used to use virtual desktops all the time, but now I barely do anymore because the experience of snapping between windows feels awful.

This is why I, as a software developer, always wait one year to use software. When Microsoft Word launched, it had over 100,000 known issues.

It still amazes me how probably the largest most influential tech company of all time can spend SO LONG on every OS they release, and still manage to have a laundry list of problems with it EVERY....SINGLE....TIME.

What I hate about Windows 11 1) The start menu (it's so mobile like and I can't resize it. Plus, is too big) 2) The right click submenu (It's the same as the Windows 10 right click menu and the icons are outdated) 3) Performance (I think Microsoft will fix that in some updates) 4) The flat and rounded design (Sometimes looks consistent, sometimes inconsistent) 5) Other things (Example: Control center and notification center are separated, the flat icons and much more) If I'm wrong, the answer button is right there. But, if you see any spam comment, REPORT THEM IMMEDIATELY

Windows 7, Vista and XP altogether have had rounded windows corners but I haven't noticed that sort of resizing difficulties at all ifirc. I STILL LOVE 7.

As someone frequently moving large data folder to folder, the stability of Explorer in the modern day is unacceptable. Blows my mind that the base structure of an operating system can break so frequently.

I learned a LONG TIME AGO, even as far back as Windows 98, to NOT upgrade to a new OS in Windows until a year had passed and the majority of the bugs were worked out!

A year later and most of these issues have been fixed, I think Microsoft flat out ignored Feedback Hub and went straight to Linus Tech Tips

What I hate about rounded corners is that there will always be a small gap between windows next to another which is far worse than the 1 or 2 pixels currently in between windows in Win10

There seems to be way too many issues for me to go with windows 11. Looks like I'm sticking with windows 10 for the foreseeable future until all of these things are fixed.

For those who wondering how to skip the account login during the windows 11 initial setup, hit shift F10 (for cmd) and type taskmgr to open up task manager. Under Process Tab, look for Network Flow, stop the operation. It will skip the Microsoft account and instead goes to local account page.

I'm still using Win 8.1, but being warned about upgrading (Chrome as well), but I've heard from a computer person to leave 11 alone for a couple of years until they work out the bugs

You still have the option of going to Taskmanager if you click on the windows logo in the task bar though so I dont feel like that's a big problem.

The dev team is out of touch. They are adding features and 'improving' (depending on whom you ask) the aesthetics. But no one seems to be asking the simple question - Is it easier this way, or harder? The same thing is affecting MS Office too. Things that took 2 or 3 keystrokes back in 2003, are now taking 4 or 5 keystrokes in 2021. Why? We expect new features and upgrades, but the core heavy-use items should always be easiest to find and use. Agreed fully with the other complaints. Not rushing to Windows 11.

You missed another annoying thing. You can't drag and drop file to opened program in taskbar. (for example to upload file via chrome)

I have 3 computers with Windows 7 pro, Windows 10 pro and Windows 11 pro and a switch box with dual monitors. I still prefer to use windows 7 just for basic use and then of course, it you still want to use your printer. This right clicking on Windows 11 is absolutely insane to give you options that you would never use. Why not just keep it the same way it was but all those other options that most people probably never use, keep that at the end, at least, where "show more options. Just reverse. Why do I have to go so deep in show more options just to access "copy" or "delete". What was wrong with the way it was before? I do like the looks of Windows 11, as opposed to Windows 10. Windows 11 kind of goes back to way Windows 7 looks which I like if you care looks and icons. Some people don't. I personally haven't found anything in Windows 10 and 11 that I really care about. Ok multiple monitors is nice but I don't care, when you consider all the negative aspects. Who is making these decisions? 10 year olds.

As somebody how uses a lot of Linux/Unix tools: Windows 11 allows to run X11 applications in WSL. Biggest advantage for me. Now I can run Kcachegrind without a hassle. This was the primary reason for me to upgrade and I have not regretted it, it’s OK though I preferred Windows 10 in most regards. It’s improving with every update though.

For power users it's super annoying, they have literally removed features that already existed on Windows 10 and took the apple approach of make it look good with none of the features you need

I absolutely hate how difficult it is to create a new folder in the right click menu - rename, too. Now it requires an extra click to make it happen. Guess they are forcing me to get better with shortcuts? On the positive side - it handles multiple user accounts a ton better. In Windows 10, the task bar would often freeze if I was logged into two accounts at once. All of this seems to be resolved with Windows 11.

Most of these issues are fixed with Rufus and Explorerpatcher. That doesn't fix Explorer crashing though, but my workaround was remove a bunch of quick pins that were put there automatically.

And that time when they added a second stop to right clicking on the desktop. What's the point of changing the menu when if you click more settings it brings you to the original form and it's more functional

One of the most mind-boggling omissions was removing photo album previews from the folder icons. Going from Win10 to Win11 wasn't as off-putting as the switch from Win7 to Win8.0, but there are so many little idiosyncratic quirks that I'm disappointed it shipped with my new laptop. Dual-booting with Ubuntu (or OpenSuse depending on the machine) and using Windows only when compatibility dictates remains the most accommodating experience, at least for my needs.

No one talks about the removal of "dragging any file to taskbar icon to copy it in that app". In all previous windows dragging a file to a minimized taskbar icon would unminimize the app and we could drop the file in the app. This extremely useful feature is gone and made me return back to win10.

Sticking with windows 10. tested windows 11, ran into the same issues and more (including wifi issues) ... But, bugs are expected when something fresh like this first comes out!

Here I am watching this 1 year later and it sucks so much still it won't even install on my machine...

"If it ain't fixed... break it worse!" - microsoft motto

Microsoft is really consistent, every second release is just plagued with issues. This release looks like some of the steam Unity early access survival/crafting games.

Explorer freezes still happen to me too very often. I always thought it happened because I used a version that din’t require UEFI and TPM because I have an older system.

Been running linux for like a year now and ran it back in highschool on a laptop for a while. Not sure if I'll ever go back to windows full-time, maybe for some tools

windows 7 for history's sake was my favorite windows so far. loved the simplicity what gamers really only need for maximum cpu and gpu speed even ram usage

I just love the constant searching for the options that were so easily accessible on Windows 10, it's like a carny ride of fun trying to figure out where the new settings are hidden....

In my Windows 11 the desktop menu that is visible after clicking right hand mouse button one day turned into old Windows 10 drop menu (it's actually good bug xD)... Another problems - the taskbar cannot be moved across desktop (up or sides), and Excel has a lot of errors... like for example issue when EXcel is hiding behind taskbar...

This is why I use linux (fedora 37) as my main driver for work and school. File explorer crashing, driver issues, I need stability when doing work on my PC. I upgraded soon as windows 11 came out and ever since its been tedious to get it to run smooth.

For Windows, you always have to wait for the first equivalent of "service pack" patches before actually installing it. Oh and Microsoft can take its Tablet-centric design and stick it.

After installing the windows 11 that I thought was free and "great", every thing imaginable started happening from sound to graphics to laptop not starting to game freezing for 3-5 seconds mid gaming. Great! Really Great! I deserve this. Its entirely my mistake.

7:37 It PSFFSFSwitches you over to the search window

I couldn't possibly upgrade to Windows 11. I was so terrified of the O.S. because of everything that I heard, I switched to Linux. A big part of that was them *forcing* cloud computing on the main operating system. That was a huge turn-off for me.