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Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken (www.neowin.net)
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[–] kayohtie@pawb.social 26 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways -- broken in ways I've never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.

  • Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it's open, until you want another window) (I've only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
  • The "home" view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that's empty -- sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I've repeatedly suffered this)
  • Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn't from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
  • Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)

And that's just my personal experiences. The ones I've seen others deal with is much weirder.

Honestly I'm buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 13 hours ago

On my work computer when I maximize a window, I get a little strip of desktop still showing between the window and the start bar.

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using windows 11 for six months. when I hover over the taskbar, a phantom windows explorer window appears, but it's not clickable and it disappears when I move the mouse away. my right hand monitor has a white box with a small 'no' symbol in it stuck in the middle of the screen. it doesn't seem to derive from any running application and I cannot get rid of it. on the windows 10 install I ran before, the task manager totally stopped working, it just froze every time I opened it. I run Linux on all my other machines and stuff does go wrong, but it goes wrong in ways that make sense to me and which I can fix. on windows people just tell you to run sfc scannow and reinstall if it doesn't work. that's no way to live your life.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I had a random no symbol on my external monitor that was being caused by its OSD detecting microphone mute and showing an icon.

This certainly isn’t a fix, but if you try to screenshot the icon and it shows up, you’ll know it’s being drawn by the computer and not the monitor.

Might give you a direction to investigate :)

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

One I see daily at work is File Explorer adding an extra 'window' when you hover over the icon in the taskbar. If you click on it, nothing happens, and you cant close it either.