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I begrudgingly upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11.  That decision was made because Microsoft will stop support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025.  I actually do a decent amount of work in Linux Mint, but my workplace uses a lot of Microsoft and other Windows-based software. After upgrading, I uninstalled various unnecessary items like the login screen widgets, Copilot, Xbox, etc. but I quickly found out the taskbar was not very customizable.  The main issue for me is that Windows 11 doesn't allow you to rotate the taskbar to be vertical.  This was actually a deal-breaker for me because I frequently switch between programs, and with a dual 22" LED monitor setup, it was inefficient and awkward to constantly move both my gaze and mouse pointer to the bottom of the left screen to select a program.  Of course there is the ability to Alt+Tab or Windows+Tab, but being able to just click on what you need in the centerpoint between the left and right screens is more...

While updating VirtualBox Guest Additions for a minor version upgrade on v7, I ran into an odd issue where I couldn't run a shell script with sudo or even as root, and the appropriate execute flag set. I ended up having to run in a separate shell to get it to work. I don't recall this happening before. Here's are my attempts below, along with a screenshot and the capture of it finally working. user@linuxmint:/media/cdrom$ ls -la total 48888 dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 2742 Feb 6 05:09 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 4 2024 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1048 Oct 23 11:00 AUTORUN.INF -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7003 Feb 6 04:40 autorun.sh dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 1468 Feb 6 05:09 cert dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 1252 Feb 6 05:09 NT3x dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 2828 Feb 6 05:09 OS2 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 5096 Feb 6 04:40 runasroot.sh -r--r--r-- 1 root root 653 Feb 6 05:09 TRANS.TBL -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2095024 Feb 6 04:49 VBoxDarwinAdditions.p...