So far my new #MSI laptop has been delivering in terms of hardware performance, but the software is infuriating. I've talked about my gripes with Windows 11 itself earlier, but now I'm dealing with MSI-specific shenanigans.
When I initially set up the computer, I added one keyboard layout, US International, which allows me to write accentuated letters, common in French, using key combinations with characters available in the US keyboard.
However, whenever I restart my computer for any reason (like OS updates), the basic US keyboard is re-added to the list of available keyboards, which enables the infamous Alt+Shift shortcut to switch between keyboards. This combination is pretty frequently hit inadvertently but normally doesn't do anything on its own, unless you have more than one keyboard layout enabled.
This is irritating on its own, but the steps to remove the unwanted keyboard layout are worse: it only appears enabled in the language widget in the task bar, but not in the language settings, so I have to manually add the US keyboard layout in the settings in order to then remove it, which also affects the language widget and disables the keyboard shortcut. Until the next time I restart the computer.
Same deal but marginally less irritating, the "MSI Center" app keeps re-pinning itself to the taskbar even after I removed it manually. A computer restart and it's back. The MSI helpdesk has the shadiest FAQ page about this very issue which I've been reluctant to follow for fear of collateral damage but I may just end up go with it.
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