Re: Has the Windows 11 user interface yet caught up with that of Win10?

Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> Have just noticed it's been enabled on this machine (new 
>> category/grid/list option in Start).
> 
>   The Category one is completely bonkers!

<soapbox>
Everyone can organize their forks & spoons but few can organize their apps!
 <https://i.postimg.cc/5yMQwfv9/windows-pullout-menu-drivers.jpg>

I wrote articles for the local Silicon Valley rags decades ago, where they
used to be in those mailbox-like newspaper-like boxes by the post offices.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/brHnQj4Y/pic-menu.jpg>

I explained how to organize a Windows PC (which might have been Windows 95)
at the time, and even though some people here (who shall remain unnamed,
but they know who they are) argued I couldn't possibly have used the word
"app" for the installation hierarchy, I certainly did, for a few reasons:

1. Everything was lower case (for good reasons in those days)
2. Everything was fewer than 8 characters (good reasons for that too)
3. And everything was singular (unless it ended with "s" as in "news")
4. No two categories started with the same first letter 
5. Catch-all categories (e.g., "misc" & "util") were expressly forbidden

The whole point was to fit every type of app, by functionality.
Without ambiguity. <https://i.postimg.cc/qvJDMQcq/taskbarmenu02.jpg>

For decades, a simple hierarchy of a dozen functionalities has fit every
app I've ever installed on Windows (and on Android and iOS too).
 C:\app\{archiver,browser,cleaner,database,editor,finance,game,etc.}

Had Microsoft hired me then, everyone in the world would have had a far
better organized computer as I postulated rules that companies like Adobe
had to abide by, namely they couldn't pollute things the way they did then.

And now.

There would be strict rules on what companies could add in order to fit
into the system properly. Had Microsoft adopted it, Windows wouldn't be in
the mess it is in now, but that's water (long ago) under the bridge for me.
</soapbox>

Note it's not the hierarchy that matters so much as it would be designed so
that companies couldn't pollute it. Also, I'm well aware "spaces" were a
big thing at some point, so it would add that "modern" stuff (like capital
letters) in that it would be designed by me along with a committee.
-- 
One out of a million people knows how to organize a computer properly.
And yes. I'm one of them. I'm not afraid to say what I know & what I don't.