Microsoft put a lot of focus on Windows 11’s design when it released the operating system in 2021, making a clean break with the design language of Windows 10 (which had, itself, simply tweaked and ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

If you wish your Windows Start Menu were smaller than it currently is, check out the various ways we used to reduce its size.

It's honestly much more depressing to think of the win11 UI as the actual outcome of someone's design process; rather than an accretion of perverse incentives without the same level of clear ...