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Windows 11 26H2 Released.
So... Windows 11 26H2 has been released. Anyone excited, yet?
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Fun stuff... the thing that's been in the past Windows versions... the ability to move the Taskbar around... has been reintroduced... finally.
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Nothing broke after the update... thus far. We'll see how it goes.
Every Windows version is a mixed bag of upgrades and downgrades 😅
Quite true. Like, for example, this reintroduction of moving the taskbar to any edge of the screen... made useless by !allowing to auto-hide it when it's positioned anywhere else than the bottom.
My Windows 7 && Windows 10 machines handle that well.
Hell, even my Linux Manjaro handles that.
I do wonder what they broke in this version of Windows, though. I'm sure there's something.
I kinda wonder why all these new versions are needed. I mean, in Windows XP people decided that everything is fine. No complains means awesome. I mention XP and not 2000 because search bar for apps is a hard requirement and the reason I drove xfce instead of lxde. Is LXDE even alive still? Last time I used it actually, it felt extremely unpolished.
Wow wow wow. I thought that LXDE was a window manager itself. But it used Openbox. And a shocker, that development stopped in 2015.
But here's a very hard reality check: my own window manager probably was more convenient than theirs and thanks to Swift even easier to maintain.
I mean - a lot of products will cease to exist probably. I think I spent around 40 hours prompting for my env and in the end - it felt like a Mercedes. It was really solid. But I made several wrong design choices. Doesn't matter, I did not expect to use a self-written DM and actually enjoy it of this quality.
The end game of a perfect desktop environment is XFCE. Also, Chromebook is quite interesting. Maybe Mac as well, I did not use it for a few months and it ended with a psychosis resulting in me remembering literally nothing of those months.
But I do not consider Windows a serious desktop environment in any way.
> 'The end game of a perfect desktop environment is XFCE.'.
You're getting some royalties from each XFCE installation, or something?
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I just realize that I am not using my own desktop manager anymore for a few weeks now. I am using now a Chromebook with literally always two windows open.