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My experience with W11 on the work laptop.
Taskbar sucks, maybe because I'm colorblind but I can te what my selected program is and programs with notifications (Teams) look like the focused program. Apparently notification boxes there are pink now. Can't find any accessibility setting but fuck the colorblind I guess. It feels wrong to click the highlighted icon I for years have learned will mean that I minimize it...
And why all the dots? And why is the notification dot the largest, so I can even tell which window is actually focused?
Outlook doesn't open with focus, especially the window that is supposed to pop up and warn me of upcoming meetings. Really annoying.
Teams notifications just don't show if you are in a meeting and that is focused, they used to do that on W10.
Might be a Firefox bug, but there's a lot of new visual bugs. Github diff view is randomly strongly colored, and randomly changes to the old weaker background colors when scrolling/resizing the windows. And a surprising amount of scrollbars in grids that weren't there before.
I just wish W11 at least worked with the regular features of W10.
On Windows 11 there are accessibility settings for colorblind people. Settings -> Accessibility -> Color Filters. There, you can enable the feature and choose the right filter for you. Going by your description, I'm not sure it'll help, but feel free to try it. Colorblind accessibility options have been progressing quite nicely the past few years, so at least there's something to be happy about.
It's not helping unfortunately, it's just a blanket change in colors by some filter. The taskbar highlight is bad to begin with. Ideally the should use red/orange for warning highlights and used bright white. But a weak pink isn't going to be more visible even if it was turned redish. It'll still be weak.
And it does change every other thing on screen, which won't be good for me since colors aren't an issue normally, and even worse if it affect screen sharing. Taskbar changes is just straight up bad UX that tries to look good.