i think my favorite thing about windows 11's incredibly shitty taskbar update is that they threw out fitt's law, and general-purpose design
where is the start button? it isn't at the corner of the screen, anymore -- an effectively infinite target you can reach by simply moving your cursor in its direction until it stops moving. now it's centered at the bottom, and it moves around as you open/close other applications.
looking at this shit it's like a doctor came into the hospital one day and went "yooo what if we started bloodletting again? i know we tried it before and it didn't work but i'm bored of doing things right and wanna fuck everything up for a while", except instead of being thrown out they were promoted and declared the smartest person in the room.
and yes, i know they put out an update later, so that you could finally move the button back into the corner. "look, we threw out all the old wheels because we were so sure the square ones would work."
i went insane when i saw that. i thought maybe i was the crazy one for thinking that was the most OBVIOUS bad idea in UI design i'd seen, but i was and am right! i am smarter than a company worth (googling microsoft's estimated value, please hold...) 3.029 Trillion dollars and i think you are too! everybody's smarter than them!! we all know making the start button a moving target and having tasks move around the taskbar randomly like a game of musical chairs is a idiot idea!!! GO TO HELL
anyway i installed explorerpatcher which fixes it. but what the fuck
I've heard some claims that this was because W11 was supposed to be a mobile-touch interface first and a desktop interface second, but even in that context does no part of this decision process make sense.
The closest thing a phone has to a taskbar, at least on Android, is a button that os fixed at the bottom-left corner of the screen! Phones don't do the thing Microsoft is claiming! It's so stupid you guys.
Go figure that we then get shit like Microsoft copilot after they've illustrated themselves incapable of good decisions
