I love Windows 10 and Windows 7 was
special those two operating systems are
some of the most functional and useful
operating systems ever made now I know I
can already hear the Linux people
screaming stay tuned I'm going to
release a video talking about the ways I
use Linux and why I cannot use Linux as
my daily driver desktop right now what
we're going to do is talk about the
upcoming changes to Windows 11 why I
think Windows 11 is in fact worse than
Windows 8 the reasons why it's not just
going to be like an old man ranting
about why the things are changed and I
don't like and why have you done this to
my thing you ready for my philosophy on
what I think an operating system should
be like an operating system should be
like a very good manager and what do
good managers do good managers enable
you they allow you to do things in your
own way as long as you get them done and
then they get out of your way and let
you work a bad manager gets in your way
throws things at you all the time tells
you that the way you're doing it is not
the right way to do it and you should do
it their way and then bothers you the
entire time you're trying to do your
work and makes it difficult for you to
do the normal tasks that you would be
doing that's a bad manager Windows 11 is
a bad manager Windows 10 is a good
manager Windows 7 is a great manager so
hopefully someone from Microsoft is
watching because I think a lot of the
power users like me and a lot of the
people watching this video have our
Telemetry turned off so they cannot
monitor everything that we do and they
don't know the ways that we're using the
operating system maybe that's why
they're going in such a terrible
Direction with Windows 11 before we get
into any of that let's make sure that
your copy of Windows is
activated I use hook keys for my OEM
keys this is where I get my windows Keys
you can also upgrade from home to Pro
which I highly recommend that you do but
first off let's show you how these
prices so you see 30 bucks right if you
go to Microsoft website it's over $200
what's the difference this is an OEM key
meaning that it's generally locked to
the hardware sometimes it moves from one
to the other but we can pretty much say
that it's going to work on one system
and then if you move over to the next
system you get another key for that
system now you'd have to do this
multiple multiple multiple times before
it would be uh you know a better deal to
get the regular version from Microsoft
the other thing about OEM Keys is they
don't come with a warranty from
Microsoft so on your operating system
you can't just call up Microsoft has
anyone ever done that so let me just
show you the prices right now so if we
just throw this in our cart proceed to
check out and then use the coupon code
ts25 I've got it saved but I'll just put
it in here hit apply and watch it come
down
$23.22 we also have Windows 10 Pro and I
want to note that Windows 10 Pro right
now still unlocks Windows 11 so you can
get a Windows 10 Pro key save a little
bit of money and use it to unlock
Windows 11 but Google this because you
know it may have changed by the time
you've seen this video if it's been a
few months or whatever just Google and
see hey do Windows 10 Pro Keys also
unlock Windows 11 I'm going to put this
in my cart put in ts25 coupon code and
that comes down to
1761 let's say you need a copy of office
and you don't want to pay for the Office
365 monthly recurring thing well you can
get office 2019 and not have to pay that
monthly fee the coupon code ts25 click
on that hit apply and there we go
$488 instead of paying a monthly fee so
I need to activate Windows 11 for this
video and for the next video so I'm
going to go ahead and buy a copy of this
right now clicking on buy now takes you
straight to check out I'm going to go
ahead and submit my order once you're
finished placing your order it brings
you here and then you can just click on
view Keys and codes if you do not go
directly here go up to the top click on
your email address click on user Center
and then in the middle of the page it'll
tell you you have an unextracted key
extract now yes it'll bring you here but
if not just click on my Pur orders and
then view Keys and codes says completed
and then right here we can do get the
key and right there in the middle of the
page that's your key so go ahead and
copy that click on start type activate
and it's going to give you all kinds of
garbage but just wait for it to say
activation settings click on that once
you get here just click to change your
product key and wait activating Windows
you get the best experience yes yes yes
click on activate now remember this is a
Windows 10 key I'm trying right here and
hey we're activated there we go got a
screenshot from Oblivion on there we've
changed our wallpaper we are activated
and we are good to go so thanks again to
H for sponsoring this video and now it's
time to get on to our regularly
scheduled
program let's talk about how we got here
right now Windows is still running on
the Windows NT graphical user interface
Windows kernel has been evolving over
the years and you may have looked over
at Linux and said they've got all these
different desktops they've got window
managers you got Budgy you got cinnamon
you got lxd you got KD plasma you got
xfce you got what's it Monte you got
gnome uh gnome 3 of course you've got
Unity which is is built into aontu you
got flux box you got open box if you
want window managers you've got all
kinds of different graphical user
interfaces for Linux why don't we have
the same things for Windows well Windows
is closed source and the kernel is there
and they've just been using the Windows
NT as the graphical user interface and
they've been using that okay this is
crazy it's before Windows 95 Windows 95
didn't use Windows NT but Windows NT
came out as a 32bit version of the
Windows 3.1 file manager that they had
way back then so this is really old
stuff we've got Legacy code all the way
from back before Windows 95 built into
Windows 11 we have not made a change in
that long Windows NT finally showed up
in a desktop on Windows 2000 and it was
like oh this is great and it was it
showed up Windows XP and Windows 7 and
Windows 8 and now Windows 10 and 11
they're all running with the same stuff
going on it's the same car with a
different paint job on on top now the
paint job on Windows 11 is a little bit
different so how did we get to that
what's happened with Windows 11 is
they've locked down a lot of things to
try to I guess obfuscate or keep you
away from a lot of the subsystems that
are running in the background they don't
want you messing around with stuff they
want things to be nice and easy but they
also want to stop you from customizing
things which is what we're going to see
with the the new you know versions that
are coming out they've removed parts of
the old taskbar so the functionality
that used to be there in Windows 10
they're removing a lot of that
functionality so that only the windows
11 taskbar is going to be available uh
and they're going to lock down a lot of
the other features because we've been
using different hacks to bring back
features from Windows 7 and Windows 10
and just really helpful things even
stuff from Windows 8 you can bring back
uh Windows 8 flyout menus for the volume
and the network and all that you can
bring all that stuff back using Explorer
Patcher and a number of other things but
they are locking it down so you can no
longer do that because they're just
they're finally removing it they're
removing that little piece from the
window Windows NT you know from the
Windows NT user interface they getting
rid of it so that's going to be gone and
you know that's fine we we move forward
we move into the future there's new ways
to do things and normally I don't have a
problem with
that you know I I was thinking that the
whole advertising in Windows was a new
thing and then I installed Windows 95
cuz I was just messing around with
something something and testing and I
ended up with a a later copy of Windows
95 that had the Active Desktop stuff and
do you remember this Windows 95 look at
that MSNBC news Disney all this stuff
Sports remember this Active Desktop
nonsense and then when you clicked on
the start button there were
advertisements for they had
advertisements built in for MSN and AOL
and just all kinds of nonsense there AOL
preview so yeah they were they were
cramming advertisements in from the
beginning from Windows 95 they've always
wanted to cram in advertisements but
they didn't have the bandwidth to really
do the Telemetry that they can do now
and they didn't have the the I guess
they weren't as big as they are so yeah
the advertisement I guess is way more
efficient now it was pretty easy just to
turn off the AC Active Desktop close a
couple things and then you're done when
it comes to Windows 95 but the corporate
brain rot has been there from the
beginning and uh we just have to keep
wrestling functionality away from the
corporate nerds and the marketing Bros
and giving it back to the developers and
the Nerds who are actually using the
stuff so yeah it's funny to see that
the direction that they're going in is
not governed by what is good for a
desktop power user it's governed by what
is good for a tablet in my opinion I
think that's really this this kind of
happened back in Windows 8 Windows saw
something and they immediately had an
identity crisis this you remember this
this is the first iPad in 2010 Steve
Jobs and this is when he was out you
know out there just showing off what it
was so let's get over here and just take
a look at this user interface great user
face for a tablet and the iPad became a
sensation so what did what did Windows
do well they looked at that and they're
like okay that tablet operating system
that they have there and all the stuff
that's going on why don't we take a lot
of that DNA and shove it into a desktop
operating system and then you know what
we got on August 1st 2012 a couple of
years later we got Windows 8 there it is
let's get some shots of this just so you
can remember and it didn't feel like a
desktop operating system anymore there
was a giant context shift between the
start menu and the actual desktop where
you did all your work and it felt
jarring it didn't feel right it didn't
feel like something that a power user
would want to use but there was
something that I think is is okay about
the Windows 8 experience you were still
able to hack it you could change it you
could add open shell back then it was
called Classic Shell to bring back the
original start menu make it look like
Windows 7 which was what most of us were
familiar with the Windows 8 start menu
if you ran it in the small mode using a
some hacks or whatever was actually okay
it wasn't that bad in fact I think it
was maybe better than Windows 10 because
it had fewer advertisements and fewer
you know bits of garbage there was no
Candy Crush right there on the start
menu there was some other things there
maybe just camera games Xbox the whole
thing whatever it was U there Sky Drive
and some other stuff that they had that
they just throw on there but they were
mostly Microsoft things Maps maybe a
Twitter app or something there was some
some of the Metro apps they came out
with it wasn't CR full of candy crush
and Spotify and whatever all the new
nonsense is let's just take a look we've
got Windows 11 right here on a VM yeah
what what do we got here when I press
start yeah I've deleted most of it it
looks like but you do have LinkedIn
Spotify Sometimes some games you don't
want some addictive gotcha games with
pay to win mechanics or whatever crammed
right here into your start bar and
there's going to be ads here too you
know back back in the Windows 8
day that was not there you could
organize it it was very nice and then
then in Windows 10 they just gave you
the small one that a lot of people were
trying to to hack their machines to get
anyway and it was okay you could delete
stuff pretty easily from the taskbar and
that's the thing you could modify it and
and it was it was nice and it was usable
but I think that the the whole identity
crisis is still there when it comes to
the design and the whole idea that we
need one interface for all users whether
it's a tablet whether it's a laptop or
whether it's a desktop power user who is
doing something something completely
different than what someone who with a
tablet is doing we need to give them all
the same unified interface and that is
ridiculous that whole idea is
ridiculous you've ever heard the whole
story of like what's the best Pepsi and
Pepsi paid a gazillion dollars to a
marketing person to try to figure out
what's the best flavor of Pepsi and he
came back and he said your question is
wrong the question shouldn't be what's
the best flavor of Pepsi the question
should be what's the best Pepsis and
they were like huh and he's like people
are different you need Cherry Pepsi you
need vanilla Pepsi you need Diet Pepsi
you need all these different flavors
peanut butter Pepsi I don't know Crystal
Pepsi remember that nonsense we need all
these different flavors of Pepsi and
sure enough it worked and now there's
still lots of different flavors of Pepsi
some of them come and go but people
prefer different things and different
things will sell to different people and
sales will go up overall but Windows
keeps trying to create this one unified
interface interface for all people
regardless of what they're doing with
their device you know on the tablet I'm
probably going to leave the regular
Windows 11 interface face except I might
change a couple little things make some
things smaller if I can but it's nice
when I flip it sideways it automatically
flips and things are big enough for my
fingers to tap on the tablet and use it
it's okay it's not too bad yeah I'll
change a few things but when I'm sitting
in a desktop I don't want the taskbar to
be this big whatever is it like 50
pixels almost 48 pixels tall I don't
need it to be that tall I want that
desktop real estate for my power stuff I
don't want to use autohide cuz that's
annoy that annoys me when it's
constantly popping up and down let me
just do a little show and tell here Auto
hiide I can't stand it it like
sometimes it pops up when I don't want
it to pop up sometimes it doesn't pop up
when I want it to pop up it's like and
it's there's always a little bit of a
latency like when I go down there like
it's sometimes if I go up and down and
it's like I I don't like that this is my
windows 11 desktop that's not been
updated to 24
H2 but this one on the VM it's been
updated to 24 H2 look at the size of
this taskbar now here is the thing that
I really really really hate about
Windows 11 24 H2 yes they removed a lot
of the other subsystems that were hiding
there the windows 10 functionality the
Windows 8 functionality that's gone the
taskbar is different it's not the same
animal anymore they're removing pieces
but they're also locking down our
ability to change
things you used to be able to go in and
say I want small icons on the taskbar
and that would reduce the size of the
taskbar by several pixels which makes a
difference we don't need all the extra
padding if we're doing something and we
want all of our desktop real estate uh a
tiny little taskbar on the bottom is
completely fine and with most versions
of Linux like plasma and gdome and
everything you can go in and set an
individual pixel number telling you how
you know telling it exactly how big you
want your interface to be on the bottom
you can tell it how exact this is how
big the task this big you know like 16
32 pixels whatever you want you can tell
it exactly how many you want it's
brilliant but Windows does not want you
to do that and it doesn't make any sense
because I'm still using your product let
me change a few things here and there
you know that don't take away
functionality if if I'm if I'm on a
desktop let me do stuff to the operating
system but right now Windows has been
blacklisting programs and this is
something that I think is kind of new
because these are not viruses these are
not programs that you know destroy the
operating system these are programs that
allow you to configure the way Windows
functions and looks they patch different
parts of Explorer like Explorer Patcher
uh they're blocking start all back which
is a start menu and taskbar replacement
program that does some other things to
the system they're blocking several
different apps that you can use on
Windows these are not viruses but they
say they may have you know like
unintended consequences or whatever they
may it's okay that's not your business
Microsoft I bought the operating system
I bought the omk but you get the idea we
bought the operating system it's on my
computer I'm using an offline account
you have no business telling me what I
can and cannot do the registry hacks
that we used to be able to use to make
the taskbar smaller those are also
disabled in the latest 24 uh H2 those
don't work anymore the only way to
change this and I'll show you if you
want to change the size of this the only
way I've discovered so far is to use
start 11 which is a paid program but
it's it's from stardock and it's a
well-made program but it doesn't do all
the stuff I want it to do like I
actually prefer the start button from
Classic Shell so if I turn this on watch
the taskbar on the bottom look at that
it works I'll tell it to always combine
buttons may as well there we go so I
don't know what what they're doing
that's different from the other programs
but maybe explor Patcher will figure
something out but whenever you try to
install explor Patcher on the latest
version of Windows the one that I'm
looking at here this is also the beta or
the dev build or whatever it's coming
out later in the year all right so check
this out right here's explor Patcher if
I want to install that and double click
it and look what Windows tells me this
app can't run on this device this app
can't run because it causes security or
performance issues on Windows so it says
a newer version may be available so
that's promising it's not telling me
that like hey it's gone forever but they
are blacklisting things and telling me
that I can't use them but check this out
the Blacklist is so stupid and crude
that all I had to do was rename this to
explor Patcher just I put explor Patcher
yes and look at this we're installing it
now that's it mhm it's installing now
and now I've got an Explorer Patcher
installed you shouldn't be installing
explor Pat and start 11 and all these
other things at the same time because
it's going to confuse things it's like
what's going on it's fighting it's
fighting with Explorer Patcher and and
you know start 11 right now I've got
start 11 and I've got that's open shell
and all this stuff installed at the same
time it's not killing anything it's kind
of working but also it's not working
perfectly either because look there's a
space right here over over there right
there see that space that's because uh
the the open shell doesn't know that
star 11 has made the taskbar smaller so
I don't know it'll be a way to fix that
or not it's
it's really annoying they're making it
so difficult to customize Windows 11 and
for power users who want to use the
software it's it's making it almost to
the point where it's a deal breaker and
and a lot of people are going to start
moving over to Linux it's going to be a
slow trickle it first it's not going to
be like a lot of people in the Linux
Community think that Windows 11 is so
bad that people are just going to like
all of a sudden tomorrow going to wake
up and have like 40% you know share of
the desktop operating system will be
Linux and that's not going to happen
it's going to be like 6% 7% 8% 10% you
know like it's going to be a slow thing
and a lot of people like me are going to
be stranded on windows for a long time I
might have to try to figure out
something where I'm running a VM because
I'm getting so frustrated with the
direction that Windows 11 is going in
but I have I have software that's on
Windows 11 that keeps me hostage and
I'll make a video about that soon so all
the Linux people who really want me to
move over to Linux can understand where
some of the people are uh you know when
it comes to being stuck and I think a
lot of it's a creative people stuck by
the creative programs that don't have
good Alternatives or any alternatives at
all and don't work in wine or with any
other compatibility layers so I've had
to do a lot to get Windows 11 to
function half as well as I'd like it to
and there's still many things about the
user interface that make me insane the
last thing I'll mention here is that you
cannot drag and drop um images or
anything else like if you're just
chilling here in your operating system
and you know you used to be able to drag
and drop stuff up here to the bar you
can't drag and drop up here unless you
have hack it I had to use explore
Patcher to allow me to do this but in
Windows 11 you can't do that so if they
don't allow me to hack that then that's
going to I mean I'm have like this you
see this we still have the file explorer
from Windows 10 this is the Windows 10
style File Explorer with the ribbon
right here there we go i' I'm using that
one and I actually like the windows 11
tabs that's really cool File Explorer
with tabs but I've decided this is more
important to me being able to drag and
drop things up here I do this every day
all the time and it's not a feature that
everyone uses maybe because everyone
doesn't know about it but a lot of
people used it and they just removed it
from the file explorer it almost feels
capricious when you think about like
some of the stuff that they've taken out
because who was that bothering who was
that affecting you had to actually do
work to remove it and troubleshoot it
and make sure that it was not working
it's like why did you remove that it was
in the early builds of Windows 11 with
the new file EXP floor it was there but
why did you remove it why are you doing
this to power users so the identity
crisis is back and it's worse this time
because they're trying to tell me that I
can't run Windows the way I want to run
Windows like I could with Windows 8 and
Windows 10 I could hack the interface I
could make changes to it now speaking of
hack the interface there are a few
things you can do and you know like I
wish there were more all you know like
alternative guis that you could use you
know it's not that easy to write UI for
Windows and there's a few that have come
out over the years I think the one
that's probably the most welldeveloped
and still has I think some support is
Kyo it's a different desktop operating
system in my opinion it's uh not easy on
the eyes it's kind of I guess looks
about like Windows XP era if you like
this then then
cool it it's very functional does a
great job so if you want to explore just
a totally new desktop environment that
works on Windows Cairo is that but I
think we're at the era where we need
some new alternative desktop goys that
you know use Windows as the kernel and
then we've got a new guey on top that
would be brilliant but this is closed
Source stuff this is not the same as
Linux you can't it's not it's nowhere
near as easy a lot of it you're going to
have to like be doing overlays and stuff
on top of Windows functionality so it's
not going to be the same level of
compatibility not that not the same
level of function so yeah I mean
ultimately my the thing if I had
everything that I wanted I would just
have the programs that I really really
need I I would have them create Linux
versions that would be amazing so FL
Studio if you're watching please uh
Vienna symphonic orchestra please
there's that's some of those plugins for
the audio stuff huge deal but they're
only windows or or Mac you know there's
one other solution that I was thinking
of and this could come from inside
Microsoft and I think we bother some of
these developers and and maybe just
bother Microsoft enough to let them know
that Hey listen I know you're not
getting a lot of telemetry from us but
we we use your products we buy Microsoft
we I you know I make tons of tutorials
that help people who are going to use
Microsoft the vanilla way with ads I
make tutorials for them I talk about
Windows um but we need the tools we need
the power toys so maybe the power toys
team could could look into doing
something because right now power toys
is an awesome piece of software let me
just open it up right here it gives you
so much more functionality you've got
you've got better zones when it comes to
snapping just all kinds of different
tools for your
sleep there's so many tools built in
here and these are Microsoft devs who
are working on this this is a Microsoft
a Microsoft product what if there were
some configuration options here for our
desktop user interface B our file
explorer there's file explorer add-ons
right here but this is mostly just for
file types and everything but what if we
brought back some of the functionality
from older versions of Windows like
Windows 10 or or just some new ideas for
better ways you know cuz let's let's
just face it this see this nonsense
right here if I click on the the volume
thing it brings up this entire cluster
and that's the new thing in Windows 11
and normally we could patch this out but
as of the newest version of Windows this
Dev build that have here you can no
longer patch this out but what if we had
some alternative ways to do this a
different taskbar that could be enabled
through power toys for people who are
using desktops and and need different
functionality and don't want to have to
deal with all this nonsense here and
look this little this is for swiping up
and down but it doesn't allow me oh you
can swipe up and down with your mouse
but I mean that's not what I want if I'm
going to this this little thing if I'm
want to pop this out then pop the whole
thing out why are you making me do extra
clicks to move things up and down it's
this is stupid this is extremely stupid
and then if I want Network I got to
Jesus I'm so unhappy right now so what I
did is I created a desktop shortcut for
network and I'm probably going to put
that on my you know I put it on here
just drop it right there sure there
Network great so now I can just click on
that and it'll go here or you could just
click on this and and go to my network
connections here I'm going to have to be
using my start menu like crazy so open
sh you're going to be doing a lot of
extra work when it comes to Windows 11
all right I'm going to close this out by
saying if you are tied to Windows like
me because of some software then I I
would recommend you stick with Windows
10 for as long as humanly possible it's
the last desktop operating system that
Windows has made and not I do not
consider Windows 11 a desktop operating
system it's
another identity crisis that thinks it's
a tablet interface but wants to make
sure that it can work on a desktop as
well just God I wish the Windows phone
had worked so all the people who are
working on the Windows 11 interface
could just put their energy over there
on the phone and tablet products and
leave us alone on the desktop but you
need you need two different interfaces
you need the power user desktop
interface and you need the interface for
tablets and phones and whatever else
touch devices those don't need to be the
same interface and you need to allow us
to customize our interface Microsoft or
else people are going to start going to
Linux more and more every day and then
maybe it'll get to the point where
there's enough of a demand on Linux that
somebody big like a dilby will say you
know what we can do the Adobe suite and
they'll do it for I don't know one Dro
or do I don't know if they probably do a
flat pack or whatever but they'll
they'll do it and then who knows what
else will happen maybe Fubar will make a
Linux version
please anyway that's the end of this
rant I'll see you in the next video I'm
going to actually do a fun thing where I
just sit here it's going to be nerdy
just put it on have a cup of coffee and
and goof off with me but I'm going to
try to hack the hell out of Windows 11
and just see what I can do with version
24
H2 it's going to be a long video of me
like hacking around with the files
seeing how many things I can change
seeing what I can do installing all
kinds of different programs and just
seeing how much I can tweak the
operating system as it is
so it's a feasibility study and I'm
going to take you along for the ride so
that'll be coming up as well soon this
entire month I'm going to be talking a
lot about Windows um Windows
Alternatives like Linux and why I can't
move to them and and just other stuff
like that so we're going to get into it
this month kind of crazily I'll see you
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