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
bugs 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
weeks
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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 are 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 gonna 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 we just keep encountering
basically if you have scaling set to 150
and open the settings menu in your
secondary display it'll open scaled 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
it's 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
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 these system
tray 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
ungreat
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 submenu and the worst
part isn't that those options are being
hidden away it's how many of these
submenu 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 panes
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
gently brings up the search menu while
dropping the start menu at least it does
the first time you do it just like we're
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and don't think 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 it's glass painful he
laughed a little
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thanks for watching everyone have you
updated your os yet swapping over to
linux instead if you enjoyed this video
maybe go check out part one of our linux
daily driver challenge we definitely ran
into some some issues there
the answer is nothing's perfect