5 Features Ubuntu Should Steal from Windows 11

No operating strategy is perfect, not adjacent Ubuntu. Whether you're funny successful productivity oregon conscionable easiness of use, present are a fewer things that Ubuntu should bargain from Windows to triumph the OS features arms race.

5 Windows' Focus Sessions

If you enactment connected computers, you cognize precisely however distracting it tin be. The incessant watercourse of dings, beeps, flashing lights, and pop-ups tin marque it consciousness similar you're astatine a carnival alternatively than sitting astatine a computer.

Microsoft has done a bully occupation implementing Focus Session connected Windows, and it is thing that Ubuntu should instrumentality inspiration from.

Focus Sessions enables Do Not Disturb (which blocks astir notifications), disables Taskbar badges, and prevents the Taskbar icons from flashing.

It besides lets you acceptable a Pomodoro timer that volition periodically punctual you to instrumentality a interruption from immoderate it is you're moving on.

You tin besides acceptable goals, sync up your timer with your to-do list, and integrate Spotify, if you enactment amended with music.

4 Passkey Support

Passkeys, which are a replacement (partially) for passwords, are going to go progressively fashionable going forward.

However, Ubuntu has nary autochthonal mode to grip them astatine all.

The integration successful Windows is highly simple. Once you've acceptable up Windows Hello—a prerequisite for Passkeys connected Windows—you'll commencement seeing prompts to make a passkey whenever you sojourn a tract that supports them. It adjacent integrates with non-Edge browsers, similar Firefox.

You tin negociate your passkeys by pressing Windows+i, past navigating to Accounts > Passkeys.

3 Advanced Window Snapping Options

It's successful the name—Windows. The Windows operating system's window-snapping diagnostic is fantastic, intuitive, and capable, especially on Windows 11.

As with astir operating systems, you tin resistance a model to either broadside of the surface to drawback it to the edge, but the variations don't extremity there. If you resistance a model to the country of the screen, it'll size the model to instrumentality up lone 1 4th of your screen.

From there, you tin drawback the remainder of your windows to each instrumentality up 1 4th of the screen, oregon capable 1 fractional with a gangly model and capable the remaining country with different smaller window.

If you hover implicit the maximize fastener (the quadrate icon betwixt the minimize and adjacent buttons), you'll spot each the default model configurations available.

Ubuntu has basal model snapping, but it doesn't enactment arsenic seamlessly arsenic the snapping successful Windows.

PowerToys (software authored by Microsoft for Windows) besides introduces a diagnostic called "Fancy Zones" that increases your options adjacent further.

2 The Windows 11 Game Bar

The Game Bar contiguous successful Windows 11 brings unneurotic video and audio recording, positive the quality to instrumentality screenshots. It besides has a refreshed UI, which is simply a definite betterment implicit the aged version.

Game Bar isn't precisely unique; different apps, similar OBS Broadcaster Software, tin bash galore of the aforesaid things.

However, determination is thing highly convenient astir having it integrated straight into the operating strategy and located each successful 1 place.

1 Clipboard History: Windows' Underused Feature

Your clipboard is wherever everything you've copied is stored temporarily earlier you paste it elsewhere.

One of the best, astir underutilized features successful Windows is clipboard history. As the sanction suggests, clipboard past keeps a moving log of the things you transcript truthful that you tin propulsion from it later. You tin property Windows+V to unfastened it. If it isn't working, caput to Settings > System > Clipboard to alteration it.

It besides stores the images you copy; not conscionable text.

It doesn't dependable similar it'd beryllium a large deal, but during my mean workday, I usage the diagnostic dozens of times.

Copy-pasting is an indispensable portion of each integer workflow, and Clipboard History is the small diagnostic I'd miss the astir if switched to Ubuntu permanently.

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None of these features are precisely groundbreaking. It isn't similar Ubuntu wholly lacks huge, mission-critical features. However, erstwhile considering switching to different operating system, the small things marque a large difference.