Windows 11 is great I mean this baby
packs so many features like better HDR
better multi-monitor support better search and there's only there's only a
few little um buds to work out that
um okay it has some problems and
these are 11 of the ones that have been driving us most crazy over the last few
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first up on our list is a seemingly minor complaint but it's one that could
hide something much more Sinister as of writing there were a few core tools that
were just straight up broken on Windows 11 launch the Snipping Tool voice typing
and the Emoji panel now Microsoft is
already rolling out a patch and by the time you watch this it'll probably be
fixed but the issue is that these broke because Microsoft's digital certificate
expired on October 31st why are core
parts of the operating system dependent on these digital certificates that can
just expire if you have the pro version and
suddenly you can't use a feature you paid for that is simply unacceptable
speaking of buying Windows 11 unless you pay extra for the pro version good luck
creating a local offline account without logging into your Microsoft account many
of you already have Microsoft accounts and there are real world benefits to
using one like account recovery through the cloud but this solidifies once and
for all the idea that while Windows is becoming free to use you're almost
certainly paying for it with your data once you've logged in you can create as
many local accounts that aren't linked to Mr Gates as you want but your Windows
11 ET will need to phone home during setup or you are basically hooped we
haven't actually encountered this one yet but there are reports online of the
Windows 11 driver update tool actually
downgrading the drivers that you have installed for your GPU so for now you're
best off completely ignoring the tool and sticking with your direct download
from the NVIDIA or AMD website oh and by
the way did you notice the menu Breaking In that clip well multiple staff members
here at LMG have reported file explorer just randomly crashing on them it's
happening to Jake three to five times a day and after the first couple of times
it really starts to get on your nerves I mean we expect some crashes here and
there it's not like Explorer doesn't hang in Windows 10 sometimes but when a
core feature like this fails repeatedly you can't help but get this anxious
feeling like there's always a storm cloud following you around
speaking of which where's my weather Windows you took forever to put the
weather thing in the taskbar and then now just as I had gotten used to it it's
gone hidden away in the widgets How will
I know that it's going to be a cold day and I need to grab my LTT beanie and
stealth hoodie from lttstore.com also right-clicking the taskbar no longer
gives you the option to bring up task manager and no longer gives you the
option to anything at all except for taskbar settings
and while we're at it why the heck can't I see my clock on every monitor I want a
game on my main display you know the one where you've inconveniently glued the
clock and I don't want to alt Tab out of my game or pull out my phone to see if I
should have gone to bed two hours ago ah gaming if you're running an AMD CPU
you got off to a pretty bad start with up to 15 performance loss in games due
to a scheduler issue thankfully the patch for that seems to be working for
most people now but now it's Intel that seems to be having their own troubles
we've had to do more hard resets in the
last couple of weeks than in the last couple of years playing a mix of both
older games like Dota 2 or slay the spire and newer ones like Forza Horizon
5 and death Loop it might be the new
auto HDR feature that's causing some of this fuss since what we've seen the most
is with multiple monitors suddenly going
dark and then the entire PC becoming non-responsive but at this point the
only thing we know absolutely for sure is that it's pretty annoying
now for some more multi-monitor woes these come in the form of weird scaling
bugs that just keep encountering basically if you have scaling set to 150
and open the settings menu in your secondary display it'll open scale to
100 you can then move it back to the
primary display and bada bing bada boom it's fixed but this kind of window dance
shouldn't be required in the first place
and neither should fussing a boat with
the updater it worked perfectly fine for
some of our staff but Jake had to do a fresh install and we've seen similar
complaints online to be clear we always recommend fresh installing a new OS for
the cleanest most bug-free experience but keeping all of your programs and
files is supposed to be possible and it makes for a much less painful transition
for most people so it would be great if it worked another annoyance that started
with what we thought would be a pretty cool feature is the Overflow icons
pretty straightforward in theory you take apps in your system tray and then
put them over onto the right side of the taskbar as overflow icons pretty nifty
unfortunately these icons often become impossible to right-click and interact
with while a game is up so it's what's the point you know you
hit the Windows key to bring up the taskbar you right click the icon and
nothing which you know maybe you would think oh
well that's because the game's launched and you can't interact with the assistant for icons except if you put
them back in the system tray they work just fine
now let's talk about the rounded Corners these have been causing a fair amount of
controversy for my part I don't mind the look but they need to be easier to
expand and resize currently it is too difficult to grab the corner in order to
perform these actions because Microsoft and their Infinite Wisdom removed the
corner looks great feels ungrate now the
fix is pretty easy make The Sweet Spot bigger for the mouse cursor or just add
an invisible corner to every window but it's got to be done in order to improve
quality of life with Windows 11. also
right clicking on the desktop used to be a great experience you get all these
relevant options that are now hidden away in a sub menu and the worst part
isn't that those options are being hidden away it's how many of these Sub
menu options are actually just repeats of the previous menu like why
yes the new quick options at the top great feature but you could have added
those without tacking on a seemingly pointless extra step as for the start
menu there's a lot of empty space and it
can take a bit to load too which is something I thought we'd moved past after Windows 10's Growing Pains
furthermore if you start typing to search for something it switches you
over to the search window which just feels unnecessarily jarring it doesn't
even morph smoothly into the other window it just jankly brings up the
search menu while dropping the start menu at least it does the first time you
do it just like we're going to be putting together a one petabyte SSD
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we've forgotten about you Mr Windows search you were the chosen one finally
to be focused on helping us find our files and applications but no Microsoft
decided that web results should still be the priority
now to be clear it is better than Windows 10 way better than Windows 10.
we just feel that a tiered setting web
priority local priority or local only
would allow it to be all things to all people rather than well an annoyance to
many people now we've mentioned often that being an
early adopter sucks and while many folks are actually reporting a hassle-free
experience with Windows 11 a fair few are squarely on the other end of the
suck Spectrum hopefully the next six months to a year sees the majority of
these issues ironed out though because as painful as broken Windows can be get
it because glass painful ah he laughed a little
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updated your OS yet swapping over to Linux instead if you enjoyed this video
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