Microsoft is also working on a smaller taskbar option
  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    22·
    2 months ago

    You mean, the feature that literally every other OS has had since the 90’s? INCLUDING WINDOWS???

    Money truly breeds complacency.

    • Naich@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Oh don’t bother with that. Can’t your shoehorn some more AI into the mouse pointer or the volume up button?

  • Soulphite@reddthat.com
    101·
    2 months ago

    Hmm, does this assist in uninstalling Windows 11 faster to upgrade to Linux or something? Or what’s the improvement here?

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      5·
      2 months ago

      My unstanding is that the Windows core team made this change as another step in their commitment to the Year of the Linux Desktop.

      The moveable taskbar, specifically, eases the transition from Windows, since most Linux DE have had moveable taskbars forever.

      I would tag this as sarcasm, but I’m not honestly 100% sure it’s not partly true.

  • moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub
    2·
    2 months ago

    Microsoft finally realizing that version numbers won’t get users to switch to 11, they actually have to give users what they want.

    Meanwhile, XFCE lets me build as many panels as I want and configure them however I like.

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Thank goodness. I often have to remote into remote servers to do work, it’s so confusing having stacks of task bars on the bottom. It’s been driving me insane since my company upgraded Windows.

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 months ago

    The shitty vibe-coded desktop environment/ window manager I made over the past month has a movable taskbar.

  • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    You mean the thing that should’ve been there from the start? The thing that was possible since launch using Explorer Patcher or Windhawk?

    Yeah, I’m still on Windows due to specific issues I could never solve with Linux (although I’m itching to try again). If I was not able to have top-side taskbar with small icons, never collapsing and left aligned (as it should be), I would rather put up with any issues Linux gave me than use Windows 11 with its defaults.