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[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Uh, what? Can you clarify what you mean by "drag&drop"? Because dragging and dropping files or text around within or between application windows definitely worked even when Win 11 was new, so you're probably talking about some specific instance, I assume?

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The taskbar on windows 11 for the first two years didn't support dragging and dropping on icons or opened applications. It was completely unusable

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Ah, okay, gotcha. Yeah that's fair. Not something I've ever really used, so wasn't aware of that. Your comment read to me as if Windows as a whole just didn't support drag&drop.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Look at this video from 4 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHokrbjlz8

I updated even on the beta version and at the beginning I was like "well it's a beta, surely they will fix it"... Then it launched with the broken taskbar and I thought "surely this will be patched in a week" - it took TWO YEARS