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They thought it was a great idea to remove the feature to unlock the taskbar and move it to the top or side of your screen in windows 11. I don't care if it was a design choice, it was a fucking stupid one.
I can't believe this is still impossible. Surely engineers at Microsoft are suffering from this too? But I guess they really want to push the search bar and ai features that don't fit on a vertical taskbar.
Edge really said "There can be only one!"
Adwaita is the one and only!
I don't even want it vertical. I just want it up top. 🤣
This right here drove me to dual boot Manjaro. I can't be the only person who has stacked monitors instead of side-by-side monitors. The UI is an abomination and the telemetry even moreso.
Linux is not turn key, and as a significantly PC gaming user it has limitations. I still have not set up modding yet, and whether Vortex mod manager will work or not is still unclear. I can't get more than 60Hz out of my monitor on HDMI, which is required if I want 175Hz and 10bit color due to DisplayPort 1.4 limitations. Sleep causes my motherboard to permanently display a "CPU unknown" QLED Code. Instructions on simple tasks like creating a permanent drive mount at boot are confusing because there are steps that seem to be just assumed by everyone writing them. Etc.
I am working my way through these, but still find myself in Windows 11 most of the time because unfortunately it just works. Software is natively written for it, there is no searching for how to get peripherals or programs to work. I say this as a lifelong tech nerd who started on Windows 3.1 and DOS, and who's job involves working with Linux based equipment. This shouldn't be as hard as it has been to transition, but it is.
there is a new in dev version of the vortex mod manager that does work under linux available under https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App ... it's not complete yet, but it works for cyberpunk for me, check it out!
That is super exciting, I'll give it a try. Thanks for pointing that out, I thought it was still in the rumours and supported speculation phase. If this trend continues then Linux will be more and more viable going forward. SteamDeck pushing the gaming scene has been huge, I hope the momentum just keeps increasing.
Honestly your situation is kind of a worst case scenario.
At this point Linux works really well if all you want to do is browse the web and play (single player) games.
It also works pretty well if you're an expert who understands the system in and out and can comfortably edit any config file on their drive to achieve what they want.
But if you're a Windows power user whose used to being able to set up all kinds of niche functionality its a rough experience when all of your knowledge is now suddenly useless and there's a different set of things that are easy or hard to do.
Its actually kind of a similar experience going the other way. For example there are some things that Linux users are used to being able to script that can't really be accomplished on Windows except via autohotkey, which from a Linux user's perspective just seems incredibly dumb.
You're absolutely right, I feel almost as bad attempting to use Mac as I do Linux but it is a less powerful OS and I just accept there are things I can't do. Plus it IS designed to be idiot proof.
For Linux, I run into the problem that there is a floor of knowledge assumed in every tutorial. Auto mount my secondary NTFS drive at boot? Just do XYZ in fstab. Don't know where fstab is and where to make that entry? You're SOL. I am comfortable in command line to an extent, but it's been a long time since I dailied DOS, honestly don't spend a lot of time in PowerShell, and networking equipment is a completely different beast.
Microsoft may suck, but I can usually find my way through a script or formula or something with their knowledgebase. My skill set doesn't translate well, and I am finding it harder to learn than I probably should. I probably need to take an introductory Linux course.
This shit drives me bonkers lol. I have to use windows for work but use CachyOS outside of work on all my PCs minus my mac mini.
Aka every other fucking PC in my life I have the bar up top lol
Who uses Windows like that? The UI gets all screwed up anyway
You can't unlock and move the taskbar anymore!?!?
No, its insane, and I felt the same way you do now when I found out.