Windows 11에 대한 적절한 검토를 제공할 시간입니다. 지난 기사에서는 하드웨어 요구 사항, TPM 등에 대해 이야기했으며 Windows 11의 미리 보기 빌드를 설치하는 데 있어 다양한 장애물과 문제를 처리하는 데 상당한 시간을 투자했습니다. AMD Ryzen 5 프로세서가 장착된 테스트 노트북과 8세대 Intel 프로세서로 구동되는 노트북의 가상 머신에서 설정 프로세스를 시도했습니다. 결과적으로 모든 것이 순조롭게 진행되었습니다.
이제 Windows 11이 실제로 무엇을 하는지 확인하고 싶습니다. 마음, 이것은 초기 검토입니다. 따라서 오늘 보는 모든 것이 변경될 수 있으며 최종 제품을 나타내지 않을 수 있습니다. 그러나 과거의 경험에 따르면 오늘날 여러분이 보는 것은 대부분 최종 제품에서 얻을 수 있는 것입니다. 자, 이제 Windows 11입니다. 시작합니다.
첫인상
실제 랩톱 업그레이드와 일반적인 가상 머신 테스트라는 두 가지 개별 테스트에 대해 이야기할 수 있습니다. 바닐라 결과를 보여주는 몇 개의 작은 스크린샷을 제외하고 실제 노트북 결과에 초점을 맞추겠습니다. 이들은 훨씬 더 흥미 롭습니다. 그럼 업그레이드 과정에서 어떤 일이 일어났는지 살펴보겠습니다.
대체로 시각적 변화를 제외하고 대부분의 설정이 올바르게 포팅되고 보존되었습니다. 이것은 매우 좋은 일입니다. 내 개인 정보는 거의 변경되지 않았고 내 응용 프로그램은 모두 거기에 있으며 기본 앱은 "우연히" 재설정되지 않았습니다. 기본 브라우저는 Firefox 등입니다.
시스템은 또한 두 개의 Linux 배포판이 있는 트리플 부팅 구성에 있으며 그 중 하나는 부트로더를 제어합니다. 업그레이드 중에 영향을 받지 않았습니다. Windows 11은 설정을 가로채지 않았으며 모든 것이 이전처럼 작동합니다. 아주 좋아요.
프라이버시 등
대체로 모든 것이 괜찮았고 효율성에 중점을 둔 설정은 영향을 받지 않았습니다.
개인 정보 설정은 이전의 올바른(끄기) 값으로 유지되었습니다.
하지만 몇 가지 성가신 점이 있었습니다.
- Defender 바이러스 백신 서비스가 꺼져 있음에도 불구하고 다시 켜졌습니다.
- Cortana는 시스템과 함께 실행되도록 설정되었습니다. 하지만 왜? 로컬 표준 사용자 계정을 실행하고 있습니다.
- 클라우드 콘텐츠 검색이 활성화되었습니다 - 원하지 않습니다.
- 스크린샷 권한 등과 같이 개인 정보 보호에 관한 몇 가지 새로운 사항이 있습니다.
둥근 모서리
Windows 11의 둥근 모서리에 대한 전체 토론은 Aladeen 제독이 Nadal과 미사일 원뿔 모양에 대해 논의하는 The Dictator의 장면을 생각나게 합니다. 둥글게 해야 합니다. 아니, 뾰족해야 한다. 미사일의 모양은 페이로드 전달과 관련이 없습니다! 물론. 중요한 것은 콘텐츠, 에르고 응용 프로그램이지만 코너도 있습니다!
새로운 스타일은 Plasma와 Apple 세계의 무언가가 혼합된 느낌입니다. 더 행복한 색상, 더 깊이. 편평도가 낮아 좋지만 충분하지는 않습니다. 이제 저 익스플로러를 보세요. 창 테두리는 거의 Windows XP와 같은 느낌입니다. 마치 사람들이 과거의 아이디어를 재사용하고 헐떡거리고, 유행이 왔다 갔다 하는 것과 거의 같습니다. 그리고 인간의 기본 욕구가 있는데, 이는 힙스터학으로 극복할 수 없습니다.
즉, 인터페이스가 약간 장난감처럼 느껴집니다. 아이콘이 충분히 전문적으로 느껴지지 않습니다. 노트북의 스케일링 계수를 150%에서 125%, 심지어 100%로 줄였고 그때는 상황이 더 합리적으로 보였지만 여전히 약간 미친 듯한 느낌이 들었습니다. 보너스 효과는 덜 평평한 장난감 같은 효과가 내 노트북의 평범한 화면에 좀 더 생기를 불어넣어 평소처럼 색이 바랜 것처럼 보이지 않는다는 것입니다.
저는 아직 배율 요소를 많이 사용하지 않았으므로 곧 결과를 확인하게 될 것입니다.
전반적인 사용성 - 현재 상당히 나쁩니다.
설정 도구가 개편되었음을 알 수 있습니다. 좋은 방법으로. 더 이상 화면을 찌르는 터치가 말도 안되는 일이 아닙니다. 실제 카테고리를 얻을 수 있는데, 이는 Microsoft가 쓸데없는 터치 광고에서 벗어날 준비가 되었음을 보여줍니다. 설정은 이제 ... 기다리십시오 ... 제어판과 비슷합니다. 그러나 이러한 불일치는 앞으로 10~30년 동안 계속될 것입니다. Windows의 모든 버전에서 관리 도구는 NT4 시대부터 4~5개의 서로 다른 UI 레이아웃으로 제공되었기 때문입니다. 중요한 것은 사람들이 필요한 것을 성취할 수 있다는 것입니다. 6년이 지난 후에도 설정은 여전히 오래되고 입증된 제어판만큼 좋지 않습니다. 데스크톱에서 터치 패러다임을 사용하면 사용자의 사용성과 IQ가 동시에 반으로 줄어듭니다.
On the other hand, the system menu is weird and annoying. Oversized and useless. It also has a "Recommended" section, which at the moment, cannot be disabled. This feels like Attempt 3.0 at doing something other than a classic menu, and it's meh. Hopefully, it will improve, because right now, it serves no purpose.
OK, let's see. First, the Administrator account. I had no idea why there were so many blank placeholders for different items - I guess the apps needed to be "downloaded" post-install or some such, and I really hate that the menu shows files/filenames, but without an extension. This looks messy and untidy, but I guess it appeals to the casual idiot, who supposedly needs a "recommended" reminder to see what files they have opened recently.
From the Administrator account.
I then logged into my standard account, to see what gives there, and also did the same on the virtual machine, to compare the stock "vanilla" experience to an existing user. Pinned apps, nope. 원하지 않는다. Then, the Recommended nonsense. I don't need you to show me my new apps. No.
From my standard user account.
In the VM, I had the following. A typical mix of nothing valuable. And of course, there's no logic to it, whatsoever. Why would a video editor be under Recommended when I'm running inside a lowly VM? No one is going to do video editing like that. All that pinned stuff used to be useless tiles, and now it's useless icons. Still no value.
Default menu in a virtual machine, clean install, no actual usage.
I unpinned all of the nonsense, and the menu still does not show you the list of apps - it still defaults to its so-called primary page. This is what it looks like when you remove the "apps" - an empty plate of boredom and sadness. The logical thing would be:no pinned apps, show all apps. Simple.
I also don't like the central position for the menu. It's just wrong. At the moment, you can move the menu to the left corner, and hopefully this will still be possible in the future, too. But you cannot put the taskbar elsewhere, as you could in the past. So, the ergonomics takes a hit.
The new right-click is also annoying. Too big ... and it introduces a second mouse-click, whereby certain options are hidden in the first level, and you need another action to show everything. A waste of effort, just like Start Menu was in Windows 8.1. Absolutely useless.
The scrollbars in Settings change their width on hover from thin to thicker. 점은 무엇인가? And why introduce a visual inconsistency while a user is doing something? If you want to make the scrollbars bigger and easier to use, then, maybe, y'know, make them bigger to begin with?
Quick Launch
Another issue - the new taskbar does not let you add Quick Launch. You may say, but it's a relic from the olden days! Except ... it offers superior functionality compared to the pinned apps. Mostly because of two things:
- Show desktop button.
- Custom folder locations in Explorer.
As it happens, in Windows 11 (and also 10), the Show desktop button is a thin strip on the far right of the taskbar. Not very helpful if most of your pinned apps or shortcuts are on the left. Much like the mouse travel problem in Gnome 40. Here, in the preview build, the Show desktop button was also slow, sluggish and not responsive (seems to be fixed in the latest release, but not when I tested). So I wanted to add a big and useful one on the left, which can be accomplished with Quick Launch, like say in Windows 10.
Only, Windows 11 doesn't allow you to use Quick Launch anymore, even though it exists and has all the right buttons. Now, there's a way around this, and you can add a custom icon that minimizes all the windows to your desktop, but we'll talk about that is a separate tutorial.
My Explorer windows lost accent color - seems like a bug somewhere. Also, this looks like a NEW file manager?
The much bigger issue is - launching Explorer. In Windows 10/11, it only allows you to open to Quick access or This PC, not a random folder like E:\Games. With normal, ergonomically superior Quick Launch, you can have seven or ten different icons for different Explorer paths, each one with its own icon, each one pointing to a different folder on your system, even a remote location if you will.
XP window border styling, modern nonsense functionality.
The new "modern" software forces you to use the low-IQ layout, which is why I'm still using Quick Launch on my Windows 10 machines. If and when Explorer allows you to open multiple locations from multiple icons, then I will no longer really need it. Before you foam and explode, yes, you CAN "hack" your way around, as always. That's NOT the point. But I expect simple, sane and efficient behavior by default. That's the magic word. Quick Launch, drag 'n' drop, done. New stuff, right-click, hacky, hacky, path, path. More in a separate guide.
Default apps
Windows 11 comes with a new model for managing default applications. Seems to be per-protocol. I am not sure why this method, because it's more complex and exhausting - perhaps that's the reason, so people get tired and choose not to switch away? This is more cumbersome.
Mini-summary on the ergonomics side
Lots of problems:
- Show desktop functionality is not as easy as before.
- The system menu is not as useful as before.
- The taskbar is not as customizable, and therefore, as useful as before.
- The new right-click functionality is not as efficient as before.
- The Settings menu is better than before.
Now, as you can see, there are quite a few issues with the new UI. In general, there is absolutely no need for this thing, the same way there was no need for Windows 10 look &feel. There was nothing wrong with the old, classic desktop formula, except it was old, and people need to be paid to do new things, because new things sell, and the plebes get excited by shiny colors. I intend to write a separate tutorial that shows you how to fix some of the nonsense, so you CAN have a classic menu, a big show desktop button, and a few other important details like that. More on that soon ...
Performance, bugses
Not good at the moment, but this doesn't worry me - it's a Dev build. Compared to the Windows 10 that sat on this box until very recently, the desktop responsiveness is quite bad. Everything is slower and laggier. The system responds like it has a mechanical disk not an NVMe.
If you go into Settings> Personalization, any change triggers a 30-sec freeze, during which the Settings window is unresponsive. It also crashes often. The visual changes take many seconds to apply. The whole thing feels buggy.
My Explorer also lost accent color, but only when in the foreground - as you can see from the Quick Launch screenshot earlier. But when you background the window, the correct style is applied. However, apart from the Explorer bug, which will hopefully be noticed and fixed, Settings never uses any accent color, and it's always pale and low-contrast gray, which is annoying - also true in Windows 10.
But wait a mo! This is a different Explorer from the classic one. And here the plot thickens. If you launch explorer.exe, then it starts normally, and it DOES hove accent color. It's only this new thing, whatever it is, with its very Gnome-like look that struggles. Not that looking like Gnome indicates a problem, but there's a lot of empty space, no clear indication what things are meant to do, and such. Then, the problem extends to Settings. Weird color stuff, but no proper theming.
View benefits? What is that even supposed to mean?
Settings also comes with a mangled navigation. Fire it up, and look what happens in the top right corner. This ain't no VM, this is a physical host, my IdeaPad 3 with its Ryzen processor and Vega graphics. All real work stuff, no tomfoolery.
I tried using Open-Shell to get the classic menu behavior - at the moment, it only works with the Super key. If you click on the menu icon, Windows always super-imposes itself over. I presume this is just an early usage issue that will be sorted out some day. Therefore, I'm kind of marking this one as neutral. No screenshots, as they don't really make much sense here.
When it comes to updates, Windows 11 tells you how "long" the process will take - but this seems to be a deliberately pessimistic overestimate, because for me, the particular update only took about one minute, including the reboot in the middle. A bug or a feature?
The battery indicator shows no time - only percentage. I assume this is a bug, because otherwise, it's useless.
The system tray thing also feels like a phone applet, which makes it extra useless. Here, you get the same effect like the System Menu pinned items. Remove everything, except say Wireless, and you have an empty and useless popup menu. An idea that feels borrowed from Plasma slash Gnome, but executed with a random Android spin.
Anyway, the whole thing. Majestic, innit? If you remove Wireless, you get the icon there, but no control over access points. Such a ridiculous and inconsistent choice. Why this whole phone-like nonsense? This is a laptop, not a touch brick.
At the end of the day, worth it?
글쎄,별로. Let's try to separate Windows 11 from the Dev edition-ness of this release. The early testing issues are not an issue - they will be fixed. I'm talking speed and Explorer losing accent color. The bigger, fundamental problem lies in the inefficiencies of the new UI. It's just all over the place.
Remember my Windows 8 review and Windows Blue &desktop conspiracy articles? Here, I see some of the same useless logic that went into the whole touch frenzy around when Windows 8 was conceived, but not quite as much, though. Or rather, a brand new angle.
So, the approach is different from Windows 8. It's sort of hybrid. Mostly desktop, with some real improvements in this space and further distancing from the touch delusion (partly), but then also more focus on the "apps" idea, which still borrows from the mobile world. Hence, the requirement for an online account for the Home edition, which is something I will test in the future. Hence, the new menu that looks like a home screen on an Android phone - lo and behold, Windows 11 will run Android apps! 메. Why would anyone ever run inferior touch-based software on a high-precision device controlled by a mouse and a full keyword? But there you go. Apps, idiots, money. Sounds like a good formula. Haters be hatin'.
The issues I've identified will annoy techies mostly - because they are the ones that need efficiency and productivity. Having to right-click twice for useful stuff, or the Recommended nonsense in the menu, or the lack of ability to pin folder shortcuts to the likes of D:\compile-Qt-stuffs and M:\Movies (in a simple way), these will only create anger with people who know their way around computers. The sad bit is, the new stuff won't provide any real value to idiots, though.
The new UI layout is also rather ... confusing. There isn't a clear sense of identity. This is neither Mac nor Plasma nor old Windows nor Gnome. A mix of things that doesn't adhere strictly to any one discipline of desktop usage. More like an experiment, let's see what works. So, looking at my needs, I was able to tweak back a lot of the useless stuff and get 95% of what I expect from the desktop. But then, this is just wasted energy.
Going back to Windows 8, indeed, true to me judgment, Windows 10 reintroduced a classic desktop formula, because a desktop is a desktop. Now, once again, there's a bold foray into unknown territory. It pushes against fundamental efficiency and basic human needs, and that never works well in the long run.
Going forward, my guess is that Microsoft will tone down some of the new stuff they showed here, bringing almost visual parity with Windows 10, but then with just enough distinction - the more XP-like borders and alike, to make it feel like a brand new and bold project. The center position of the menu will probably look cool for a whole of fifteen minutes to ordinary users, but anyone with some tech ability will shove it to the left. As for the rest, we shall keep on testing.
But will I switch? Based on what I see here, only when a moment of no-choice happens - provided I've not found a solution to my gaming and office requirements by then (2025 or so), the only two things that still force me to keep on using Windows. Not because Windows 11 is horrible - because, like my switch from Windows 7 to 10, there is nothing revolutionary or exciting about the whole deal.
결론
I find the whole early Windows 11 experience quite odd. The operating system does some things rather decently. Seamless upgrade, my apps and permissions were preserved, I can even run KompoZer from 2008 without any problems. Better system settings and all that. But then, why ruin all these good things with extra mouse clicks and a weird menu alignment? Or why add extra mouse clicks when they are not needed?
The one thing that dejects me is that I have to invest energy making things behave in an efficient way. Young people don't understand it yet, but time is the most precious commodity in the world. No matter how smart or rich you are, you get 80-90 years tops. Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. Why waste them clicking on an icon twice or three times or whatnot, when you can do it with less? Even more importantly, when you could do it with less! For example, what's so special about not allowing Explorer to point to a random disk location? How's Quick Launch threatening the grand business model?
Yes, at the end of the day, I got slightly different icons and colors, the menu is still where it belongs, and my battery indicator will probably be fixed some day. Using a Pro edition, I'll be able to avoid the online account nonsense, and I can pin the Show desktop icon onto the taskbar just fine. I ought to be happy, right? But not really. There isn't anything inherently wrong with Windows 11. But there's also no room left for useful invention in the desktop space. It's a formula that's 40 years old, and anything new is just noise. Move a button here, move it there.
This article is already too long, so let's bring it home. Windows 11 is a minor bump on top of Windows 10, featuring more visual contrast, more desktop inefficiency, and making a few nerdy things harder to achieve. It seems to aim at the app experience, but whether this will work out ... not likely. Win32 is still the king, and it will remain for a long, long time, because some fundamental needs are unassailable. As long as humans have 10 digits, and pixels are so tiny, there's only so much you can do with a screen and some software on it.
More to come. I will write some guides, and try the Home &online account thingie when possible.
건배.