Medical Gender Transition Is Like The Windows 11 Update

Deciding whether I prefer to stay on Windows 10 or upgrade to Windows 11 isn't easy for me.  There are Windows 10 features I really like.  Bezel-swiping from taskbar buttons to access jump lists, for instance, is second nature to me, and I miss that feature on my Windows 11 device.  I like the action center containing notifications and quick settings in one place.  I like having a one-finger touch gesture for task view.  I like my more customizable grid of Start menu tiles.  I like uncombined taskbar buttons.

Windows 10 also has some issues.  Touch gestures have never been responsive like they should.  Task view timeline has always felt like unnecessary clutter—someone else probably likes having it there, but as much as I have tried to like it, it just isn't for me.  And aesthetically...I like parts of it, but the overall look feels too rough around the edges—almost unfinished.  The way buttons press feels like part of a system experience I might enjoy, but I use the rest of Windows 10, and this isn't it.

Upon first laying hands on it, Windows 11 feels right.  At least mostly.  It is missing some functionality I would prefer to have, but the aesthetics are so much more polished—so many of those rough edges refined.  Touch gestures respond how I always wished they had, touchpad and touch screen gestures harmonize with each other, and settings have been moved around in a way that feels like things are where they should be.  Even if not everything is quite where I would like it, there are some slower, more gradual further changes rolling out after the initial big update, not to mention I can add a few unsanctioned add-ons in the meantime to bridge the gaps.

But I still lose so many of those little things I liked in Windows 10.  My third-party add-ons still aren't quite the experience I had with those native components on Windows 10.  And there are new parts, like the widgets panel, that I really didn't want added on.

But it is all or nothing.  When you say you want Windows 11, you get the full upgrade or nothing.  You can't get your new touch gestures and keep your jump list bezel swipes.  Why are you asking for new touch gestures and jump list bezel swipes?  You want Windows 11, right?  That means new touch gestures.  Enjoy your new touch gestures!

The average Windows user doesn't think about bezel swipes.  When you tell xem you are thinking about updating to Windows 11, duh!  A new upgrade with those rounded-off rough edges would win over anyone!  Xe doesn't seem remotely bothered by the loss of jump list bezel swipes.  Are you wrong for caring so much about your jump list bezel swipes?

Maybe that means you don't really want Windows 11.  You can put up with Windows 10's touch gestures feeling off every time you use them.  You have put up with them all day, every day, for the past 8 years; why not a few more?  Someone who really wanted Windows 11 wouldn't get hung up on that.  Maybe they will come out with a new update someday, and you will be able to have Windows 11 with jump list bezel swipes.  Maybe you will even be able to have Windows 11 without the widgets panel.

But every time you put up with one of those rough-around-the-edges Windows 10 apps, you think about the interface you could be using.  And every time you complain about it, your fellow Windows users ask, more confused each time, why you haven't just done the upgrade.

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