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Windows 11 is basically Windows 10 with a slightly nicer (in most respects) desktop. There aren't a lot of compelling reasons to switch if what you have works well enough.
The new start menu sucked, and is one of the main reasons I won't switch.
That's why I said in most respects. The Windows 10 start menu is way more configurable. It doesn't waste space for "recommended" apps either. In Win11 it is possible to reduce the space eaten up for recommendations but not hide it. The way pinned apps flow left to right and down is annoying too for spatial positioning. An update added icon groups which is something. I think the rest of the desktop, things like the control panel, task bar is a lot slicker in general though.
It's twice the size as it was in win7, and 100% of the extra space is used to display icons for apps that I don't use, don't want, and can't be removed.
Windows 10 start menu can remove all the apps you don't need. You can have an entire empty menu if you'd like. You can even hide the app list.
Not only that, you can even resize it to be half the size of Windows 7.
The fuck you on about?