• KyuubiNoKitsune
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    4 months ago

    What the fuck is the point of the start button in the middle? Like, did they forget why the space to the right of it even exists.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I moved that back the minute I upgraded to 11. It’s much better in the bottom left.

      That change was absolutely idiotic. It reminds me of that time Apple changed the scroll direction. Who ever asked for any of this?

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      4 months ago

      i keep forgetting it’s in the middle by default. first thing i did was change the setting to put it back on the left corner.

      well they essentially copied the Mac dock for no reason. The icons will still go to the right of start but overall the elements will be centered.

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              4 months ago

              In this case the person you were responding to was right. It is where they put their news and weather widget. Which only exists to push people onto Bing. It is annoying, and by default pops up on rollover, not click, so it is trivially easy to accidentally pull up, pumping those Bing engagement numbers.

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                4 months ago

                I don’t see how centering it changes that. They could just as easily leave the start menu left aligned and put the widgets button next to it

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      4 months ago

      I actually use it like that. I dont really see the reason pepole hate it so much. Geniuenly a better place for it (mind you im only talking about placement. The design itself is something else ). Since generaly if you use start menu you focus on it to launch something so it might as well be in tge middle of your screen.