don't quite understand your problem with the context menu, you mean the menu that pops up when you right click a file etc? feels kinda same/improved to me.
and the notepad thing is a feature not an issue, it just keeps the text you had entered on the last use if you didn't delete it in case you forgot to save something, just delete your text before closing if you don't like it, there even is a setting that lets you disable that. you like settings and configuration as a sworn in linux user, don't you?
windows 11 is great, and the fact that you couldn't up with anything better than these two nothingburgers confirms it
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