All right, what's going on everybody? Welcome back to the waveform podcast. We're your hosts. I'm Arches. And I'm Andrew. And that's not Andrew actually surprised. Wow.

For the audio only listeners, David just ripped his face off. I ripped Andrew's face. We ripped Andrew's face off. Welcome David and Mel to waveform episode 70. So shout out to Andrew.

He's out in the mountains right now going on fun hikes climbing big rocks. I'm sure having a good time. But we still have plenty of to tech to talk about and figured we'd put it all in one place here.

Our last episode was episode 69. Nice. There it is. And we take some time to do a fun little like game show type thing that we built. So it's sort of a tech trivia show. You can play along. It's about like tech and videos from the first half of the year.

It's a little more visual heavy for maybe for that one. Go to the YouTube channel for it. But we're back with a bunch of tech to talk about. I kind of want to start with Windows 11 because you said are you running Windows 11?

Not on this computer. This is actually Andrew's computer. I left my surface book at home sadly. But I am running Windows 11 on my surface book. So it was just unveiled last week. And now there's a bail available for the public to actually download and try. I made a reaction video just like talking about my couple major thoughts on

the new changes. It's very glassy and shiny and transparent overall. The the start menu centered. Now that you've used it for a little bit. Maybe a day or two. Have you found some things like super easy to get over or like really jarring or have gotten used to all of it. How's it gone?

A couple different things. I found that one it sort of feels like Microsoft is trying to simplify everything with the UI. They're trying to make it from what I've gathered it feels like they're they're moving the UI elements more towards feeling like a phone, which is pretty funny. But kind of makes sense.

Especially for the generations that are growing up right now if they want to onboard all of these like kids. Yeah. That have been using phones since they were born.

Yeah, there's the there's the big pullover thing from the side, which is where all these widgets and AI news feeds live. Is that part of what you're talking about?

It's that and then everything's bigger and bubblier. So for example, in regular Windows 10. Yeah. If you like click down on like there's all these icons in the bottom right with like battery management. You can switch power modes and all this things.

Now you click and there's just like one set of quick settings that comes up. Okay. And they're they're all pretty big icons. They're individual and you can swap them out.

It's almost like the quick settings menu on your phone. Yeah. And you can edit what's there and they're big and then all the menus just like completely different. They're more simplified.

They're definitely more aesthetically pleasing. Yeah.

And so I think it's definitely something Windows needed to do because they're kind of known for being very what's the word I guess like focused on information heaviness and less on just UI and aesthetics. Yeah.

And it just needs to it just needed simplification for people to be able to like know how to use it. Right.

I also found weirdly that big sir also had a lot of elements that looked like they belonged maybe not on a phone but at least on a touch screen. Yeah.

Big touch targets. Sliders things that are like way bigger than they used to be. Yeah.

Felt less like a computer and I wonder if that's kind of in the same vein. They're like, oh, well, there's going to be young people who are used to iPads.

We'll make it look kind of like an iPad or other future things in mind. I don't really know. Center start menu. Good, bad. I totally okay.

I haven't gotten used to it yet. Personally, I keep going to the left. You can move it. Right. So you can move to the left if you want. I'm trying to get used to it before I move it. Yeah.

It's a little bit weird. I do like that the icons come up from the center. It feels more like it's being, you know, birth from the center groups. That's maybe a word term but like. Yeah. Everything like comes out of the center instead of having to like look around your screen.

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