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  • Why I leave Windows 11 alone

    WINDOWS 11

    Will Fastie

    By Will Fastie

    It’s not that I think Windows 11 is perfect. It’s just that I don’t let it bother me. Too much, that is.

    Don’t get me wrong — I am not suggesting that using third-party apps such as Start11 or StartAllBack to enhance Windows is a bad idea, or even that you shouldn’t bother. We’ve come to look at Windows as highly customizable over the decades of its existence, and it is thus quite natural to want to continue working in the same manner without having to adapt ourselves to a new paradigm we didn’t ask for.

    I don’t do that. Here’s why, along with a few things I think Microsoft got wrong.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.41.0, 2023-10-09).