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I can name features, but everything I can think of are technical features rather than obvious surface level stuff: DX12, better support for SSDs (Windows 7 doesn't natively support TRIM), HDR (I guess, but it still seems broken to me). And none of these are things that couldn't be implemented in Windows 7. The UI has nothing to do with these things, and there's no reason we couldn't have them without the trouble Windows 10/11, other than the fact that MS doesn't want to do things that way.
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On Windows 11, when you reconnect to a monitor or set of monitors that you've connected to before, it will automatically return your open windows to the layout across those monitors that you had when you last disconnected (assuming those windows are still open).

This is extremely nice and saves me time on a literally (not figuratively) daily basis, to the point that I generally forget that it hasn't always worked that way.

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For my dual monitors, they have a conflict with this feature where they do not detect signal and then switch inputs and eventually power down. Then windows sees a different config and switches again causing an endless spiral. I have to turn both monitors on to the correct input while plugging in the laptop to the dock. I wish there was a way to save specific monitor setups and manually toggle them.
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Even aside from the malevolence, Windows is rotten from the thirty-year old metaphor that it started with: windows themselves. The job of positioning and resizing applications is a confusing mix of responsibility between the user and the system.

Once you've switched to tiled window managers, examples like these sound like Stockholm Syndrome.

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I hate tiling window managers. After I start a program, I move and resize its window to the perfect position, and it stays there for weeks. I don't ever want it to be moved or resized automatically, which is what tiling window managers do by default.
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"Well, they turned the entire OS into a tracking, sales and ad/propaganda delivery service, but they managed to make a single feature non-dumb, so guess we're even."

(propaganda - Windows 11 default widgets are "offering" a lot of russian-biased media, because Microsoft is too dumb to recognize that and they take any news source - and russian connected outlets are happy to use this delivery vector that most gullible people leave turned on)

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WPA3, DNS over HTTPS, WSL2, Windows Sandbox, Per monitor DPI scaling, QUIC, DirectX 12. The list can be made pretty long.
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Funny that you mention wsl as a great windows feature - the ability to get out of windows.
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Wine is a great thing on Linux too…
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Wine -> Running Windows programs on Linux

WSL -> Running Linux VM inside of Windows

Wine is more like emulating Windows API behavior on Linux, while WSL is Microsoft throwing their hands in the air and saying "Lets just VM Linux wholesale".

Both aim to avoid Windows, neither replace Linux but instead tries to move more to Linux.

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Yet again, because it helps avoid windows.
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WSL is a great feature and was a part of Windows 10.
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WSL1 seemed great, until it wasn't. Then WSL2 came along, which is just a VM and works identical to VirtualBox et al. Still huge hassle to deal with various things that get confused when you run it in a "Linux-but-not-really-but-also-Windows" environment.

Better to just go straight to what you actually want, which seems to be a proper Linux distribution, everything just works as expected then.

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So you install an launcher to run linux. Ditch the launcher i'd say.
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WSL 1 was a piece of garbage.

WSL 2 is supposed to be a VM ... all problems solved ... until they aren't.

Hint: try to use normal USB stuff natively (Linux) in WSL 2 ...

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WSL sounded great, until it didn’t.

It’s still not so easy to use, plus they ditched it anyway for VM solution.

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AutoHDR is nifty and useful
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I used to run all three major OS' where I saw no real difference in me using it for the apps etc I needed. As I leaned more heavily on the development side, linux kind of prevailed. Windows 8.1 and Yosemite were the last of the other two I've used for real. Never had to look back to other two since, be it for work, games or whatever.

Even occasional need for Adobe things stopped. I would still really like to see Adobe suite on linux, but if they don't want my money that's cool too I guess. I suspect the software tools people use for work is what's holding them back mostly, like Altium, CADs etc. Funnily enough, Microsoft office is just fine without OS native version most of the time.

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Windows terminal
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I wouldn’t say Windows Terminal is great. Have you ever used a proper one, like Ghostty or iTerm2?
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Neither Ghostty nor iTerm2 work on Windows.
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Yeah, I thought it was an odd couple of recommendations. Alacritty is an awesome terminal emulator that'll run on Windows (although I'd say Windows Terminal is still pretty close to decent)
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I never said they are. I just stated, they are better than Windows Terminal.
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