> except for the fact that it is aesthetically more "modern" to its detriment.
And also much, much slower.
The old context menu is nearly instant even when stuffed with extensions. When the new one is full of extensions, it takes full seconds to load the entire menu. You get a partial load, then the extensions pop in (and of course pushes elements down/up so now you misclick).
I don't even know how anyone could experience it in testing and allow it to go live in the state that its in. Its like no one even looked at it.
The old context menu can get slow as hell too, there have been third party tools to manage it for ages, like https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
Windows 10/11 UX is very slow in general. Combined with Intel mobile CPUs of the last few years running much hotter compared to Apple M models makes for terrible laptops. Lots of fan noise with a sluggish UI doesn't feel anywhere near a Macbook Air, even an M1. While full power raw CPU performance may actually be very close and the Intel based laptops typically cheaper.
> Windows 10/11 UX is very slow in general.
Drawing gray rectangles is a very resource intensive operation. It is a wonder how a Pentium was able to draw also a 3D border around the rectangle.
There were some sick people who, in 4 Megs of RAM were also letting you choose colors while presenting a Win10/11 interface (Apollo) but those were some heretics.
Indeed. I've heard Elon is upgrading his Colossus computer just to experience dragging grey rectangles seamlessly.
The old one had a similar problem depending on the extensions, to be fair