Windows 11 is going to be a year old in July 2022 and Microsoft will be giving users an anniversary present – a new feature update with a long list of much-needed improvements. The update is apparently codenamed “Sun Valley 2” internally and it is going to be similar to the anniversary update for Windows 10.
Sun Valley 2 or version 22H2 would be a version of Windows 11 with some important improvements to make it faster, smoother and more modern, and to integrate WinUI more closely with the rest of the operating system. For example, a new Windows Run with dark mode could show up in this release. We’re also expecting new native apps.
Considering Windows 11’s modern desktop context menu has its own classic Win32 context menu, I think they still got some work to do.
More or less the number gets bumped to sell “new” and more expensive licenses. The rest has been in status quo position for a decade or more now.
Microsoft’s fun and games with Windows as well as the monopoly and human rights issues was enough to begin weakening my continuing using Windows and Windows 11 obsoleting my hardware for no good reason was the last straw. Since making the switch Linux Mint Cinnamon was a good plan B and is working out well so far.
Windows and Microsoft are now this odd foreign American thing. Like, an old relationship which leaves you wondering what were you thinking. Once you wise up the smooth words in the round-robin list of bullet points in the corporate pitch stand out like the crass tricks of a player.
I thought context menus of context menus was exclusive to KDE.
BeOS has the entire filesystem navigable via context menu….
But most importantly; can I move the task bar to it’s rightful place at the left side of the screen?
You can move it into the context menu.
Yo dawg, I heard you like context menus…
@Cramit, yes you can, at least you could when I tested a pre-release build (on unsupported hardware no less!). I’m assuming it’s the same for the release version, but the only hardware I have new enough to run it is my media server that I’m not willing to sacrifice to the cause. Here’s a guide though:
https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-11-taskbar-left/
The guide linked seems to move only the icons rather than the taskbar itself. Cramit might have meant having the taskbar occupy the left column of the screen, like this: https://i.imgur.com/pr80hnP.jpg
That was one of the things that Windows 11 took away. It’s also one of my preferred taskbar orientations/alignments. That said, while I do have Windows 11 installed on a laptop, my preferred/primary OS is different.
This might be the second skip I do (like I did with 8) or I might quit windows altogether at home.
I have 2020 hardware and I still can’t upgrade to it because of an UEFI nvram issue that is not a thing in windows 10.
I already wiped my 2016 laptop that is not eligible to Linux and it’s not going back.
I had an XPS laptop that couldn’t run win 11 due to being 4 years old, It aced all other hardware requirements. So I switched to Linux, Now I have a Precision that can run 11 but I run Linux because screw them for obsoleting my laptop just for being a bit old. I did try 11 briefly and I didn’t like the start menu at all. The one on Pop! is much much better. I won’t be going back to Windows on my personal machine, If something doesn’t run on Linux I won’t be using it. So far I have lost nothing.
I honestly haven’t seen a single thing in windows 11 that would make it an upgrade over windows 10 and just like with windows 8 compared to windows 7 a whole heck of a lot I would consider a downgrade, from the God awful UI changes to making trying to do anything with any complexity a messy mish mash of old and new UI and having system requirements that make zero damn sense unless someone can explain to me how a Core i7 6700 or a Ryzen 1920x is less powerful than a dog turd like the 2021 Pentium Silver.
So yeah I think windows 11 can sit right next to Vista and Windows 8 in the “Just skip it” column which ironically I recently read an article that says windows 8 currently has more users than windows 11 so guess I’m not the only one giving this a hard pass.
I plan upgrade in 2025. No point now due to win11 requirements. Windows 10 is supported till 2025. And the fact thst run is not dark omg….who cares? I think that should have been in the first release.
I build my systems and to upgrade now would mean a clean install which I am not ready for. When the comes I may update the board and cpu.