My anecdotal experience with 11 is it seems fine.
- My mechanical engineering applications have no issues, I can do my job.
- It defaulted to focus mode so there's been no distractions so far while I'm working.
- Not finding any friction with the OS yet, just nice touches with UI and an overhauled settings menu that seems fairly intuitive.
- The "Start menu" search seems to work much better and has always been my primary interaction with the OS, I never navigate, setup your index locations correctly and you'll never go back.
Notes:
I had switched to Edge back when it became Chromium based. Privacy aside, it's not IE and it works for me.
I don't tweak the OS unless there is friction with getting what I need done, if my apps run it's doing its job. If I need extra functionality then an application is responsible to add it, not the OS.
If you're trying to do something dramatically different to how the base OS works then obviously its not the OS for you, if you have no choice then try working with the OS and not against it. If you're trying to run old applications based on old APIs then you need an old OS don't expect them to always work in future.
A lot of complaints seem to sound like people who want to use a linux-based OS but for some reason refuse to?
I'm also curious what customisations are being made, are they actually functional or are you just spending too much time on r/unixporn and trying to make things pretty, please elaborate on your griefs.
They joined here on an Ask HN about "Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548908