I loaded Windows 11 Dev on my Surface Pro X and so far, it has been a very snappy experience. I plan on doing a lot of testing, especially with this being the SQ2 ARM chip.
One thing I got accustomed to since Windows 8 was to group together my tiles into categories to keep them better organized. With Windows 11, you can pin and then drag them in any order you want but no way to group or divide them. Not really talking about folders because they worked pretty badly in Windows 10. I also have never cared for desktop shortcuts as they tend to get cluttered and messy.
That said, I do often like to use the search bar and just typing the name of the app is almost faster than scrolling to my groups.
I may be in the minority who actually used the tiles but was wondering if anyone else was missing this organization and if so, do you have any tips?
dftf
<p>I use the tiles to create groups also; works great, and rarely do I go into the "All Apps" list.</p><p><br></p><p>The removal of the folders in the "All Apps" in Windows 11 also seems odd, and it’s surely just going to make the list unnecessarily long, and in many cases, make it unclear which apps are part of the same product.</p><p><br></p><p>For example, right now in Windows 10, I have a folder called "dBpoweramp" and inside it are five items: "Batch Converter", "CD Ripper", "dBpoweramp Help", "dBpoweramp Settings" and "Music Converter". So it’s clear these individual apps all relate to one overall product.</p><p><br></p><p>On Windows 11, they’ll just all appear under the respective letter, alphabetically, so that context is lost.</p><p><br></p><p>I can foresee some developers working-around this by renaming their shortcuts specifically on a Windows 11 system, so there you’ll get pointless repetition like "dBpoweramp – Batch Converter", "dBpoweramp – CD Ripper", "dBpoweramp – Help" and so-on, just so within the "All Apps" menu they all get grouped together.</p><p><br></p><p>Not sure that’s better?</p>