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The taskbar items can't have a constant width. Your whole taskbar layout changes when you change a tab in Firefox. You have to open a set of programs from right to left, because any other order will change the positions of the items you want to click.

When not combining windows, in Windows 10 you could order them to your preference and usefulness. Now, you're stuck. Even when not combined, the items are combined in one block, and you can't order them within the block either.

Another thing blowing my mind is the complete lack of screen brightness support. World oot on a few Linux distros I found. My keyboard has the keys, let me dim my damn main screen with those instead of the finicky buttons on the screen

When you buy a pc with mac os, you are usually stuck with it, at least for some time. When you buy a pc with windows, you can usually just uninstall it and install something else.

Simple regedit used to fix this, but then stuff started to not work quite right as it got updated, and now I don't think that regedit works anymore.

I was briefly a star at work when all of the terminals updated to Win 11. I was the only dude that knew how to move the start button back to the lower left corner.

Just ask ai to do it?

Honestly, at this point Microsoft should do what Apple did, and build a completely new OS on top of the BSD kernel.

"You will own nothing and you'll be happy"

Time to install Linux. I'm busy setting up family with Mint this holiday season to keep their rarely used devices alive.

I watched a YouTube video by Dave Plummer about why you can't move the taskbar and it made more sense than whatever. this link is that I'm not clicking on