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Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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Great. Now can we have the option for a vertical task bar back?
I don‘t know what you mean. I can have vertical or horizontal bars wherever I want, how many I want and with different apps pinned to each if I want. KDE Linux btw.
*laughs in KDE*
Imagine using an operating system that you don’t have to labor away to escape advertisements and upselling after every update.
true dat.
my statement was more you can do whatever you want in KDE
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Yes, but it'll take them another ten years
Just for the sake of the anecdote, I just discovered that in KDE Plasma, you can put a taskbar anywhere you like, including vertically, resize it, and even rotate it at an arbitrary angle! it's pretty much useless... but you can
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Even just a top bar would be great.
How could the taskbar regress so badly?
Literally one of the reasons Windows boots so rarely on my devices.
Why the fuck are they fighting the vertical task bar? Or the 3D files folder? I've wasted so much time in connecting this shite OS from OneDrive and copilot.
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So, I settled on Nobara (Plasma desktop) almost week ago now. Besides my troubles with Wacom tablet (it happens with all distros I tried, no solution so far), it's all good. The OS isn't constantly nagging me about something. It doesn't lie about not restarting when I ask it to hold off -and consequently lose no work because of it. There is no random ad on the login screen. No web results sorted to appear first when I type to search for a local file or command. I can disable stuff I don't use, such as window animations, etc. No shovelware like one-fucking-drive or some LLM butler taking up room, ram, and mental health.
All in all, I feel weirdly at peace when using this machine. It's just a tool that's succeeding in getting out of the way.
The only downside is I can't use the Affinity suite, but besides that... perfect
Been using Nobara for nearly a year. Pretty solid. My biggest complaint about the distro is googling it spoiled an anime I wasn't really planning on watching in the first place.
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Too little too late. Shit like this would not fly in an open OS and is they were only able to do it that long, as they give a shot about customer demands. Fuck these proprietary software! Never again will i be held back by corpo software!
How convenient that windows 10 support is over. They probably had the fix and waited to ensure more people downgrade to 11
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Right, so they wait until just after Windows 10 reaches EOL to release the patch for this annoying bug. Typical. They've probably had the solution ready for ages.
But there will never be another Windows 10 update, so it's really no longer an issue.
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I wish I would have had that issue instead. What happened for me was that it would shut down like normal, but then I would get a BSOD on startup, have to restart the computer, reinstall the update, and manually choose restart again (it had to be from the startup menu, not from a windowed program) to actually get it installed.
Oh, I had thought it was me hitting the wrong button
Great. Now bring back Windows 7