I was forced to upgrade to Windows 11 on my work computer. Only thing I noticed is that all the settings have arbitrarily been moved around to different locations. Absolutely no tangible benefit to upgrading whatsoever.
Still, I decided I would upgrade my home computer as well anyway. Really enjoying my upgrade from Windows 10 to Pop! OS.
Absolutely no tangible benefit to upgrading whatsoever.
Not so fast!
Here's a list of the improvements I have experienced on my work PC:
everything is visually a bit round, but not too round
pop-ups everywhere all the time
random ding sounds, even when I mute the sound. Ding!
want to switch off? Haha you mean reboot surely? No? Reboot anyway
Teams is still shit
absolutely unusable context menus when right-clicking on an icon (SVN commands on page 2)
start menu is now owned by the Daily Mail given the quality of content and the topics listed. Yes I was actually looking for Ariana Grande's latest romance, thank you
A normal person doesn't care if they're being spied. I think it's because windows 11 feels like the same shit as windows 10. They are actually the same crap to me, I don't even know what's the advantage in upgrading to windows 11
I literally can't upgrade because of their new hardware requirements. My PC is plenty powerful for the tasks I need, what am I supposed to do, buy another one?
I know this is cliche but try Linux when support is dropped, at least if your workflow permits it. Anything is better than sending a perfectly good system to the landfill..
The shitty thing is that I have everything in my house just working right now. Media server, photo backup, drive pooling, snapraid, kids' PCs, etc etc.
Can I do all this on Linux? Of course. Would it arguably be better on Linux? Yeah probably. Do I want to invest God knows how many hours/days/weeks switching things over, debugging issues on all my devices trawling through forums to find fixes...? Hell no.
Same here, I was like "wtf do you mean my hardware isn't compatible? It's 10 times faster than trashy laptops that come with Windows 11". What I realized was I didn't have some DRM shit turned on in my BIOS.
Windows 10 was wildly unpopular at release. I didn't upgrade until I absolutely had to. Now windows 10 is, in my opinion, a very good OS.
I still don't understand the numbering system. They could ditch the numbers and just call it windows at this point. 15 years ago it made sense. Now? Not so much.