Literally. :D

The missing programs were not on the taskbar, they just poofed away all at once as if they’d been closed. (Nothing on taskbar for other workspaces) Certainly didn’t expect one to reappear a few days later. >.<

If it’s some esoteric geometry bug, it’s a darn tricky one.

It’s a self build. ;)

Most likely explanation.

I’m OK with this.

Absolutely this. I was spending 2-3 hours a week making my Win11 box stable.

Once a month I had to redo all the sound drivers, as with each reboot sound would get quieter and quieter until I was running a lottery of which program wouldn’t be affected any given day and suddenly have it’s volume loud enough to shake the house.

I upgraded CPU/MB after the MB failed, MS cancelled my Win11 licence. I realized I still was spending stupid amounts of time keeping things working, and I am very against all the AI being shoved into every Windows book and cranny.

The first week of ditching Win11, I was tinkering everything because New Shiny, but now things were working I’m not even sure I’ve spent 3 hours in the last two months tinkering.

That was adorably fun.

Narrowed down to the one I chose, and now I have my next choice if to test run.

I dropped it around the same time for the same reason. And yeah, got told I was overreacting and leaning too far into the woo-woo.