I've helped a relative with some issue on a Windows 11 machine and the UX was just atrocious. The new design is just another layer on top of everything else, so depending on which setting you need to change you'll have to dive through 4 or 5 generations of "Windows Design Language" - the new right click menu is missing crucial entries (which can be retrieved by a sub-menu, which is just the old right click menu again) - things like "copy" and "paste" are just icons - it's frustrating to no end.
Before I touched it I thought Windows 11 would be an update to the design language used in Windows 10, but the fact that there's just another layer on top of the existing stuff is mind boggling. Nothing is cohesive, there's no discernible reason for the changes that have been made (who exactly is the new context menu for?), and I'm just left wondering what the hell this whole thing has been for.
And this has just been from a thirty minute session troubleshooting some issues on another PC, I'm sure if I had to actually get work done (and had to fight with the privacy-invasive attention-grabbing shenanigans going on in the start menu), I'd have even more reason to be frustrated.
Before I touched it I thought Windows 11 would be an update to the design language used in Windows 10, but the fact that there's just another layer on top of the existing stuff is mind boggling. Nothing is cohesive, there's no discernible reason for the changes that have been made (who exactly is the new context menu for?), and I'm just left wondering what the hell this whole thing has been for.
And this has just been from a thirty minute session troubleshooting some issues on another PC, I'm sure if I had to actually get work done (and had to fight with the privacy-invasive attention-grabbing shenanigans going on in the start menu), I'd have even more reason to be frustrated.