MassClaw wrote: ↑18 Aug 2021, 16:28
Unfortunately that's far from the end of it; 11, is undoubtedly a reskinned 10, people agreed on this wholeheartedly because you could bring back the shell in almost a good condition, (My bad for repeating over and over again, but must get the point across) of course that also means same windows update and the same philosophy for language components as well. Really a disaster if they don't change how it works, so hopefully they get around this soon.
I totally agree with this, though I personally only judge W11 off what it adds and changes and not what it doesn't. I feel they definitely built W10 to be
the final windows version So it would be unrealistic to expect that Windows 11 be a massive change under the hood, especially before it's even out (look at vista to 7, and then look at how 8 had that Ex7 tweak. could literally w7-ify it until 8.1)
I doubt they'll ship it in it's current state, I mean, half the promised features aren't even in the dev channel yet. As more and more time passes, old w10 components that have been updated will be removed because as of right now they're things to fall back on, so I'm not too worried about that. I still think the primary issue is that they've been patching up legacy components instead of outright removing them and replacing them which while maybe good for compatibility, makes everything really slow.
Modern windows programs are built with the idea that they'll last a very long time and be updated for years and years and years, but things like the context menus or file explorer in general either need to stay unchanged or find an alternative that is capable of outright replacing them. Incompatibility with
some old software is better in the long-run than slowing your OS to a crawl because you don't want to replace something extremely old. I honestly WOULD like to see MS move on from all the old Win7-XP components despite what probably most the people here think. The real problem stems from the inconsistent and buggy mess it causes. Making futureproof programs is what MS has obviously been going for the last 6 years but we'll never see the benefits of that if they're bundling it with archaic software that they simply don't want to rewrite.
EDIT: I would like to state for the record I don't find legacy windows components bad, in fact I prefer them. I would rather they push more replacements for them and bring more consistency and modernity to Windows than create a jumbled mess