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More info about it here: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/13/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-new-layout-to-organize-your-apps/
I love how microsoft never learns their lessons.
I like the phone link integration. I've never been a fan out auto-populating app folders though.
Where's all the ads though? They've gotta be thinking about turning one of the folders into a recommended apps folder or something dumb. They'll sneak something in somewhere.
Amazing! Reading this headline made my bazzite partition grow by 2 whole disk drives!
Every update with these new UI changes seems to increase empty wasted space each time
What the fuck is the point of the start button in the middle? Like, did they forget why the space to the right of it even exists.
IF the categorization works well, and that's a big if, I like it.
And if the categorization isn't absolutely perfect, you can bet everyone will be clamoring to be allowed to customize it or disable it.
These people are stupid fucks.
Not my home screem!
I disagree. Microsoft is learning its lesson. It's just that the vast majority of people are teaching Microsoft that its actions are perfectly acceptable, or, at the very least, not totally unacceptable... so it continues.
They want to be as sleek as apple but it comes off as an old man trying to be hip
And maybe I'm using it wrong, but it just...doesn't work. I use spotlight search on my MacBook to find programs and things and it just finds them. It's fast enough to be faster than me opening things off the dock.
I try to use the search on my wife's Win11 computer and half the time it sends me to a website for a program she already has installed.
Like if you want to imitate, even badly, the imitation should at least be functional.
There's a reason they made PowerToys Run. It's miles ahead of the default Windows search experience.
It's not as bad as people here are making it out to be. It actually might even be an improvement. It's only for the all apps tab, and it organizes apps by their purpose, and you don't have to click the folder to expand it and then click the icon, as you can just click the icon and it will launch it. I've been using Windows 11 since it came out, and the all apps tab is something I have barely ever used. All my important stuff is neatly organized in one single tab of my home star menu screen, and anything that is not there I'll just look it up with search.
Linux and gnome pretty much gtfo of the way for me - as an OS should. I used to care a lot about what Microsoft did, now I couldn’t care less - F em
This is a new layout for the "all apps" section. It is toggle able, so if you don't like it you don't need to use it. I will give it a try but I don't often go into all apps anyway.
So much negativity here.
Windows 11 gets a new all apps screen in the start menu*
So is Nadella redesigning all this stuff? Because it certainly doesn’t look like someone who is familiar with UI is doing it. Reminds me of when the CEO of Yahoo decided she could create a new logo in Corel Draw one night.
tvf this is still in canary, the final implementation will be more polished
People still use the start menu?
I just use the search bar and type in the app I'm wanting to run
It’s the same thing. Click bottom left corner, start typin. best workflow.
well window's search is almost non-functional, so there's that
Looks like MacOS and various Linux distros had a deformed, illegitimate child.
how lol? i see absolutely no influence from macOS or DEs
Right? That’s nothing like those… that’s insulting to MacOS and Linux.
It's awful, but KDE will copy it one day.
