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Yeah... I miss buttons, too.
I'm a big fan of words. Symbols were great about 5000 years ago in Egypt when that's all we had, but words and standardized letters have been doing a great job of conveying meaning since then. I'm tired of trying to guess what squiggly line next to three vertical circles are, or rounded rectangle on rounded rectangle with exclamation point means. There's no standardization there!
I used to be a Windows person, and I've recently had to use Windows 11 on a couple of occasions on other people's machines.
I couldn't stand that in the right-click context menu they have now replaced copy, paste and some other functions with icons.
Every time I right-clicked, I was looking for "paste" only to find it's not there, get confused, and finally realise it's an icon now.
But at least they replaced everything with icons so it's at least consistent. Right?
Wrong. It's now an unholy mish-mash
with half icons and half text, just to keep you guessing.
Actual insanity.
Yeah precisely what made me comment this. Luckily there are some great 3rd party patches that return the functional text label context menu. Taskbar tweaker and winaero tweaker.
I'm just being pedantic here... But Egyptians did have words. That's what they wrote with hieroglyphs.
We all know they spoke wingdings and not words. ✈️