Windows 11 - Do you like it? (with poll)

[kDude]

I haven't installed it, so no personal experience. But I have not read anything about Windows 11 that convinces me I need it. I'm not interested in signing for online accounts just to use it. I don't think I need trusted boot, secure boot,or whatever it is called, for a PC that is just my daily use PC for software hacking and for doing business on the internet. I'm worried that the secure boot nonsense if going to create problems with my Linux boot.
The only things that I really need Windows for now are photo editing and some gaming. Otherwise I'm spending my time with my Linux system. I'll probably have to install Windows 11 next year and deal with whatever havoc that causes.

On the same boat.I have a gaming rig and soon im making a new PC and Il probably still stick to w10 til EOL.Not really keen on tpm/vbs eating my frames even if it's just a minor loss.
Also having them making you tie your email with your PC when you install w11 is also annoying.I know there's ways around it but they seem to keep on "fixing" the ways that go around it.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Not really keen on tpm/vbs eating my frames even if it's just a minor loss.

Both of those can be disabled.

Also having them making you tie your email with your PC when you install w11 is also annoying.

True. That can also be disabled currently.

 

[GreiverBlade]

i am still on Win10 (upgrade from 8.1) on the main rig but i am seriously thinking about upgrading to 11,

my Ally is on Win 11 and it work surprisingly well ... design wise i can adapt to anything ... i am more about functionality and compatibility and these 2 points are fulfilled on the Ally, so i guess given my main rig specs, i should have no issues with Win 11

well i think i keep it at "it's ok" but also "i prefer win 10" although the later is getting smaller

 

[ManofGod]

At home, nope, except to game on. I have bought a M4 Pro Mac Mini and love it, which is something I have not be excited about in years, in regards to personal computing. On a Professional level, I do not care, as long as I can get my IT work done. I have been into computers since 1991 and in IT since 1999.

 

[mechtech]

Both of those can be disabled.

True. That can also be disabled currently.

While it can, it sucks seeing the OS getting installed in 10 minutes, then spending hours reading, finding all that crap and disabling it.

The poll should be do you like W11 Home/Pro in the complete MS default state?

 

[IntelNick]

I use Windows 10 LTSC. I mainly prefer it because I'm used to it and it's a bit lighter than most windows distros. It is also supported until 2027. Windows 11 is OK but again, see above lol.

 

[micropage7]

sometimes i wonder since we have very wide range of processors from low end N series to i9 why Microsoft doesn't try to improve their OS based from the processor level

 

[Arctucas]

I voted OK; once stripped down, debloated, and locked down, it works acceptably.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I skipped Vista due to software compatibility issues.

It was solid after SP1 and great after SP2. Of course by then Windows 7 was a thing.

7 was the same setup as XP, but then Microsoft ruined it. I had to block specific updates. Remember the forced Windows 10 updates? Then the spectre/meltdown nonsense. I stopped updating 7 after that.

Yup, right there with you. Those updates were trash.

 

[JohH]

I use Windows 11 at work and I hate it for a variety of reasons. Most related to the fact that Microsoft treats its customers like captive cattle. They push ads in a new garbage even worse mail/calendar client, remove features (still no side taskbar), push more ads including official Microsoft adware that pops-up over Chrome and suggests Edge, more ads in the lock screen, more ads in the taskbar, required internet connection to setup without using a bypass, did I mention ads? You literally have to illegally activate LTSC to have a remotely tolerable Windows 11 experience. I tried paying $200 for the Pro edition and it still has all these problems. Amazing.

At home I use Windows 10 (gaming PC), MacOS (laptop) and plain-old Ubuntu (HTPC).
Windows 11 is worse than MacOS for me.
Maybe Apple will ruin MacOS to keep up with Microsoft but for now they're doing OK.
Ubuntu is even more usable now... how did that happen?

 

[Hankieroseman]

I voted OK; once stripped down, debloated, and locked down, it works acceptably.

Retail version, with my drivers and software.

 

[outpt]

W11 is ok. It’s just that I prefer W10 due to the fact that is what I am use to. If W7 was still available and no longer eol I would be using it.
Didn’t see an option for W8. W8.1 I thought wasn’t too shabby.

 

[ManofGod]

I use Windows 11 at work and I hate it for a variety of reasons. Most related to the fact that Microsoft treats its customers like captive cattle. They push ads in a new garbage even worse mail/calendar client, remove features (still no side taskbar), push more ads including official Microsoft adware that pops-up over Chrome and suggests Edge, more ads in the lock screen, more ads in the taskbar, required internet connection to setup without using a bypass, did I mention ads? You literally have to illegally activate LTSC to have a remotely tolerable Windows 11 experience. I tried paying $200 for the Pro edition and it still has all these problems. Amazing.

At home I use Windows 10 (gaming PC), MacOS (laptop) and plain-old Ubuntu (HTPC).
Windows 11 is worse than MacOS for me.
Maybe Apple will ruin MacOS to keep up with Microsoft but for now they're doing OK.
Ubuntu is even more usable now... how did that happen?

I personally think that MacOS is doing extremely well. In fact, it is not all that much different from what was released with Mac OSX 10.1 and is a highly optimized OS, at least in my recent experience.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Most related to the fact that Microsoft treats its customers like captive cattle.

So true! It's REALLY *&cking pathetic!

If W7 was still available and no longer eol I would be using it.

Oh soo with you on that one!! Windows 7 was and still is the shining pinnacle of the Windows lineup!

 

[Timbaloo]

I'll not give up control over the systems I manage, and therefore I'll migrate all remaining systems to Linux until 10/2025. Probably long before that.

 

[kDude]

I voted OK; once stripped down, debloated, and locked down, it works acceptably.

I think at this point i'd pay a sub per year to get a stripped/debloated windows version officially from microsoft themselves.(Consumer version of ltsc?)Mainly so I don't get shit on if something goes wrong and end up getting the usual sermon on how you shouldn't be using debloating software.I tried debloating my OS once.Never again.

Knowing microsoft they're more likely to try introducing a sub anyway while keeping the bloat

 

[Frick]

If W7 was still available and no longer eol I would be using it.

Probably wouldn't be working good with modern hardware though.

Installed Win11 on the desktop now and I'll go back to Win10. In the laptop it's fine but you can't add toolbars to the taskbar anymore, without 3rd party software, and that is a deal breaker.

 

[3valatzy]

I asked a person - should I install win 11? The answer was: hell, no, unless you want constant BSOD. That OS is not ready and fixed just yet.

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

69th It's OK (me!).

Haven't been that drastically different than W10 for me. Running a Tiny11 build with just keeping Xbox Game Bar, MS Edge and Movies & TV. Oh and a registry tweak to bring back old right click menu.

I'm growing to like the rounded corners. Though after taking a look at W11 in Safe Mode that has no rounded corners, feels like it's tacked on by MS instead of being native (dunno if I'm making sense).

 

[Frick]

I asked a person - should I install win 11? The answer was: hell, no, unless you want constant BSOD. That OS is not ready and fixed just yet.

That's not true at all.

 

[Caring1]

I asked a person - should I install win 11? The answer was: hell, no, unless you want constant BSOD. That OS is not ready and fixed just yet.

Sounds like they are the problem. I have W11 on all my systems and never had a BSOD or issue caused by Windows.
So in answer to the thread, YES I do like W11.

 

[KLiKzg]

I have Win11 at work & I do not like it at all!

Cheap copy of MacOS, which does not fit the bill.

 

[Shou Miko]

Yup, right there with you. Those updates were trash.

The spector and meltdown was not software but hardware issue but was patched in software but it's more AMD and Intel's fault haven't fixed it hardware wise or am I wrong?

Link: https://meltdownattack.com/

 

[lexluthermiester]

The spector and meltdown was not software but hardware issue but was patched in software but it's more AMD and Intel's fault haven't fixed it hardware wise or am I wrong?

Link: https://meltdownattack.com/

Kinda, sorta. All "SideChannel" and "SideBand" attacks take advantage of specifically engineered hardware functionality in ways those functions were never intended to be used. The "patches" intended to fix them were sloppy at best. Those vulnerabilities require a very specific set of conditions to take advantage of and as such, are impossible to pull off remotely without direct local user action on some level. Additionally, as those vulnerabilities required both HyperThreading/SMP and some form HyperVisor(IME/AMD-PSP) to be enabled, disabling one or both of them removes the vulnerability. This is one of the main reasons Intel removed HyperThreading from it's entire CPU line up, there was no way to perfectly secure that functionality in hardware or software. AMD could learn a lesson there.

 

[Nhonho]

Have you tested the LTSC edition of Windows 11 24H2?