I use Linux at home exclusively (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
Don’t need Windows for anything but when I worked Enterprise IT the move to Windows 10 was a massive pain but we finally got it working and it wasn’t too bad as an OS. There is no reason why you’d want to upgrade.
As for home users, from my experience people don’t like change. If you move a single shortcut on the desktop , they are lost and panic .
So changing the entire look of the UI is not something people want. Plus Windows 10 auto update borked some windows 7 systems so users with that memory won’t be keen to repeat it by upgrading to 11.
wow that’s amazing lemmy reddit poster #234750 please tell me more about this incredible thing
I have Windows 11 on a couple of machines and honestly it’s just Windows 10 with a somewhat slicker taskbar and control panel. Functionally it is almost identical. I’m sure there is a random bunch of changes on the periphery but it’s really not a compelling proposition if someone has Windows 10 and is happy with it.
Its a downgrade. It offers nothing but ads. Who wants ads? Why do they feel the need to keep altering the interface? If microsoft manufactured automobiles they would switch the brake and gas pedals every other year.
I must admit I’m on the edge of jumping ship, even the software which has been keeping me locked to windows is getting less and less appealing.
Do a flip!
Do a barrel roll!
Shoe on head.
Do it. Get a second hard drive and distro hop. Eventually you’ll find what you like and use windows less and less. Doesn’t have to be all or nothing at one point in time.
True, true. I think the chances of me doing at least some sort of installation this year are close to 100% lol
One of us, one of us!
Oh no. This is terrifying.
I don’t have an issue with win 11 since I disabled the ads. But these news smell like new and unnecessary “advancements”, to make it more marketable. They’ll ruin it completely…
I literally can’t install it even if I wanted to. If they removed that requirement the rollout would be the same as any other update.
I wasn’t able to when it launched, because my CPU was too old (Ryzen 1700). I have since upgraded to a Ryzen 5600X, which I think works, but I honestly don’t think I’ll bother checking. I’m on Linux 100% except for the one or two times a year that I boot Windows to check on something. Linux doesn’t have silly requirements, I just get more features if the hardware exists.
Nested right click Windows are a deal breaker on their own before any real issues even pop up
It’s frustrating. There’s a lot of Windows 11 that I do actually like: Massively improved HDR support, far better DPI scaling features, tabbed file browsing, a unified control panel again (yes I know if you look hard enough you can find legacy panels), configurable snapping regions for Windows, gaming focused features with screen recording, intelligent capture, etc. On the power user side: the terminal, winget, built in ssh support and broader compatibility with Linux development toolchains, and if you’re the kind of person with a family or friends you do tech support for regularly the Quick Assist’s current iteration is a godsend.
But then the tradeoff is ads, increased telemetry, AI integrations, inability to move the taskbar, a piss-poor local file search, increasingly restrictive desktop customizations via third party tools, shorter support periods for Windows feature updates, and generally a lack of overall feature control due to low level integration with core Windows services.
I don’t think Windows 11 is a bad operating system in the sense that I believe it to be a marked improvement on a feature by feature comparison to Windows 10. But it feels like two development arms at Microsoft are consistently at war with eachother. Some want to implement really cool features and tools for end users, and the others are hellbent on locking the system down and forcing this Apple philosophy of “use it like we want you to”.
This is why I use winaero tweaker and disable all the telemetry stuff. Win 11 feels good after that imo
I hate local file search in Windows. So many times I’ve wonder why my machine is crawling and I go to the taskbar and discover Windows search indexer is killing my machine.
For the other stuff in Windows 11, I wonder if it knows I’m in Europe because I’ve not seen any egregious advertising - it has the default shit they set up for you like the MSN home page in Edge which is annoying but it can all be changed.
Ironically Baloo is probably the most commonly hated KDE component. Desktop Search seems hard.
yes I know if you look hard enough you can find legacy panels
In some case you have to actively looks for the legacy panel, because the new ones don’t allow to change certain settings.
So far, I’ve not actually had this problem. It was a huge issue in Windows 10, but every setting (aside from audio devices being a little weird due to their own drivers) works pretty much as needed now.
most recently I had this with energy-settings, before that with network-settings, and before that with some language settings.
I’ve not actually had this problem …(aside from [when I had this problem])
lol
That thumbnail looks almost exactly as I would expect Zombie Jamie Hyneman to look like.
Good. Windows 11 is trash.
That’s one hell of a thumbnail
It goes so hard, I love it
Geez Microsoft, I wonder why? If a product is good, then it doesn’t need to be pushed onto consumers.
I am so glad I switched to linux for 95% of my tasks and only need to boot windows once per month
Same, but now once/month is more like once/year. I don’t even remember why I needed to boot into Windows last time…
Yeah I had to do it today to vectorise some images for my gf in adobe ilustrator. But yeah I cannot really recall the last time I booted windows or what I did it for. I jave also been having issues for the past 2 years with windows just constantly adding in the fucking english keyboard layout for me and I cannot remove it so it happened often that I would accidentaly switch to it (because for some reason there are a million shortcuts to do that) and then I would type stuff incorrectly.
Honestly, Windows 11 works quite well, as a Windows system, but it feels unfinished. It feels like Microsoft pushed out a pre-release built and it trying to rush out fixes and completion patches.
And it’s not even as if I care one much one way or another, I moved away from Windows ages ago (decades, really). I only keep a partition around for the odd game, and it’s just staying around so that I can setup my Oculus CV1 again one of these days. It got upgraded to Win11, but probably hasn’t booted in over a year.
I boot Windows sometimes on my laptop where I kept a small 200MB partition, mostly to see what it looks like nowadays. I’m not certain the various updates are making the experience better (at least judging from my quick twenty minutes, tour, so that’s admittedly not worth much).
Its the only version of windows i ever had where the start menu of all thing stopped functioning. I had to restart. Wtf?
People are still using windows?
At this point just the chuds.
BuT ThAtS LiKe 90% oF alL UsErs, PohtoShOp, VidYaGamEs, HeRp DeRp
I didn’t fucking stutter.
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