Love and hatred for Windows 11 Start menu remain equal amongst readers

Readers are divided over the new Start menu.

What you need to know

• The Windows 11 Start menu has shaken up the established Start menu formula via functionality adjustments and simplifications.
• Many Windows users are not fans of the changes, though others are fine with them.
• Our readers are 50/50 split on the subject.

Every couple of seconds the results fluctuate by a few tenths of a percent, but here's the deal: The poll we ran on Saturday asking people for their thoughts on the new Windows 11 Start menu has been neck and neck, a clean 50/50 split down the middle. In short, approximately 39% of people like it, 39% dislike it, and 21% don't care either way.

The poll's been maintaining that status for a while now, with the "dislike" group gaining a couple fractions of a percent, then the "like" group catching up, and back and forth and back and forth. What this indicates is that Windows Central readers really are truly divided over the Start menu. A sizeable chunk fall into the "I hate the Windows 11 Start menu" camp, while a party nearly the exact same size feels that the Start menu is perfectly likable.

Of course, we have to remember that over 21% of the 2,100+ respondents cannot be bothered to care either way about the Start menu. Lest we, the Windows enthusiasts, forget there is a camp of people who choose not to fret over things such as Start menus. Perhaps they feel the operating system itself is a non-starter, and that Windows 11 doesn't matter in the first place.

Whatever the case may be, 21% aren't picking favorites, and the two camps of 39% will remain with their horns locked for the foreseeable future. The comments on the poll are just as much of a battleground as the voting box. Some people are using the comments to aggressively defend Windows 8, so venture in there at your own risk.