This is boring.
I find Windows 11 font scaling/anti-aliasing and tiling windows implementation needlessly frustrating. The tiling windows implementation is good but I'd like it to default to snap tiling. Make the old windows (<=10) behaviour the exception. As such if I have one application taking up the screen and I open another it doesn't automatically split the screen.
It's fairly trivial to do so - just have a window in focus, press "windows key Z" then it use the arrow key to place the window wherever, but it should default to that behaviour (I think it will in subsequent versions). Or "windows key + arrows", which is how I do it.
It is too easy to confuse apps on the desktop screen because apps do not appear in the same order as they do in snap groups.
The default font scaling makes a reasonable HD screen seem claustrophobic. So I turned the default font scaling (which was set to 150%) down to 100% and, I think because of anti-aliasing, it looked a bit crap. So I turned off font smoothing and did the clear type calibration. It looked better but the fonts were too small when in subscript. So back up a bit 125%.
Seems like a lot of mucking around for something really should scale properly on a standard 1920x1080 display. I can only think the typical use case is assumed to be one maximised application at a time, or larger screens. Or maybe multiple screens. Surely lots of people run it on a laptop?
Anyway, tedious rant aside, it's now nearly as useful as the i3 window manager but slower and more obtrusive. In terms of UI experience many Linux distros have equalised with the Windows experience. I did not see that coming.
Also, not new: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager but I'd prefer Microsoft adopt good stuff rather than ignoring it. Windows 11 is nearly there just needs less widgetry and far less fluff (although Weezer's ear worm and Encarta were pretty cool). My phone is for weather and news. Mostly not my laptop.