I recently took the plunge and upgraded my Windows box from Win10 to Win11. It is a free upgrade but I decided not be an early adopter on that one in case anything broke. As it happens, it all went very smoothly and everything I have tried out since the update seems to work just fine.

I’ve got a couple of niggles though about the user interface. I had my programs set up in a set of ’tiles’ that made sense to me and all that is swept away. More annoying still, the task bar can now only sit at the bottom of the screen. It is a common default in many operating systems but most of them (including Win10) offer the option to use the top, left or right of the screen. Personally, I like the top, which means I can still see the important things even when clutter on my desk obscures the bottom of the screen.

I’m glad to be in a position to continue receiving security updates but the lack of UK flexibility seems like a retrograde step.