{"id":4823,"date":"2022-12-22T01:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2022-12-22T01:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:46:59","slug":"ive-had-it-with-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4823","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve had it with Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a laptop with Windows 11 preinstalled, and ran into too many usability issues. They are not critical, but annoying, and it looks like I can downgrade my laptop to Windows 10 without losing the license. I will try it over the week-end.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The task bar cannot be made &#8220;thin&#8221; (small icons) like in Windows 10. There is a hidden registry setting for that, but it leads to vertically misaligned icons on the right.<\/li>\n<li>There is no way to show just time on the task bar, without date.<\/li>\n<li>I cannot properly use FAR, my favorite file manager, because the support for custom console layout is completely broken.\n<ul>\n<li>Console applications run in the new Windows Terminal by default.<\/li>\n<li>Custom layout is not supported with new Windows Terminal.<\/li>\n<li>When you pin the application to the task bar, it shows the terminal icon, not FAR icon.<\/li>\n<li>It is possible to set &#8220;Default Terminal Application&#8221; to &#8220;Windows Console Host&#8221;. In that case running far.exe works fine and you can set the layout.<\/li>\n<li>However, running FAR from the pinned taskbar shortcut ignores that layout and creates a huge window.<\/li>\n<li>You can change layout for the shortcut through the properties, but doing this magically resets &#8220;Default Terminal Application&#8221; to &#8220;Let Windows Decide&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is Beta quality software and I&#8217;d rather pass on it. I am sure Microsoft will get it right eventually, but I don&#8217;t want to be the one who bleeds on the bleeding edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a laptop with Windows 11 preinstalled, and ran into too many usability issues. They are not critical, but annoying, and it looks like I can downgrade my laptop <a href=\"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/?p=4823\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-ikriv","post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikriv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}