That's a death spiral of using bad decisions to try and compensate for other bad decisions. The Windows 11 solution was to eliminate most the text from the start menu. It's unnatural and demands maximum eye movement. Nobody on earth starts reading in the lower-center of the page. They made a menu that still works (arguably better) when moved to the top-right, which you'll see a lot of people do in countries that read right-to left. This concept also is what makes windows 10 start menu so much better than say Windows XP. The best place for the English start menu would probably be the top right, but Windows puts the program menus here instead, which are also very important. This also allows the most information to fit in the menu. So the corner menu is in an easy place to begin reading the information. This is so much worse.Ģ: Americans read to the right, starting at the top leftmost side of a page. In Windows 11 you now have to consciously move your eyes to the start button so you can precisely line up the mouse. The primary 2 reasons the start menu -something you are constantly clicking on- was in the lower left corner wasġ: you can get the mouse to that corner with a quick swipe, no looking, thinking, precision, or aiming required. How hard would it have been for Microsoft to put a menu speed option in the user settings?Īnother example: If the Windows designers understood how to design a good GUI/UX, then they would have never seriously considered moving the start menu out of the corner. ![]() Turning off animations entirely is better ( way harder to do than it should be) but you lose the helpful "show you where to look" functionality.Īndroid 13 also has the problem of having slow annoying animations, but at least you can speed them up in the dev settings. (To draw your eye quickly to the new information, and to mask HDD access times which no longer exist). ![]() The person who approved this design does not understand the purpose of animations in a GUI. The computer CAN load and draw menus instantly, but Windows won't let you. ![]() Its unresponsive because the OS is forcing you to wait for animations, all the time, for no reason other than "it looks sorta fancy". But unfortunately doesn't help the fact that Windows 11 has horrible menu layout and excruciatingly slow animations. Disabling the web search helps with the pervasive Windows 11 lag a little bit.
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