Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users.

I just dipped my toe in the last few days or so. It's missing some QoL that existed in previous versions.

I run 3 monitors. My center one is my primary display with the other 2 just being extra real estate. I wanted my taskbar to be on the left monitor and out of the way. On W10, you'd unlock the taskbar, drag it to the monitor you wanted it, then lock it up again.

W11 will either let you have it on all of your monitors or only your primary monitor. I don't want all my stuff opening on a secondary monitor by default.

I know it's petty, but it's frustrating to have an easy feature stripped

From taskbar settings, they removed "Never" combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons.

Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can't do that in W11 without a third party patcher.

Windows 11 is great. The animations and overall design consistency is much improved over 10. It's also super stable, and pretty much required if you want to leverage modern CPUs with assymetric cores.

That being said, for my personal use, my version of Windows 11 is deeply modified and this ends up breaking features like Windows Update and Windows Defender, which you might care about.

But seriously, for the normal user, just install it normally, uninstall the few built in apps it installs by default if you wish, and keep it updated. It works great. Don't install third party "debloated" versions, they're awful and not necessary.

Also, please, don't fall for the Reddit (and now Lemmy) bizarre habit of showing a screenshot of Windows using 4 GBs of RAM and claiming "iT's AlL tHe bLoaT" because that's not how Windows' RAM allocation has worked for the past two decades.