Windows 11 24H2 yes or no?

[FoulOnWhite]

If you are on windows 11, will/do you install 24H2? I have seen there a certain problems with it, so do you just stick to 23H2?

 

[Space Lynx]

i clean installed 24h2 day it officially came out on my work laptop as dual boot with linux mint cinnamon, i have had 0 issues with either of them. Linux Mint Cinnamon does seem to be more smooth overall though, so Win11 bloat is a real thing imo.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I guess it's depends from person to person and hardware you are using....personally I updated tried it and reverse it back on 23H2 'tho I am using "oldish" X299 Platform and when I did some benchmarking tests results was usually worst from 5%-7% on 24H2 so I just returned back on 23H2

 

[dgianstefani]

It's good if you use the LTSC version.

No chance I'd ever use standard Windows these days. Horrific.

 

[Onasi]

I still haven’t gotten it as an available update on my personal PC and when I do I’ll probably hold off for a few months. It usually takes a bit for all the bugbears to be cleaned up with these big feature updates.
That said, I did try the LTSC on a couple of work PCs and the 24H2 does seem a tad snappier than the debloated 23H2 Pro. Not an apples to apples comparison exactly, but it’s what I’ve got.
Then again, I am one of those weird people who’s been running 11 since RTM and had no real issues after customizing it to my liking. *shrug*

 

[chrcoluk]

It's good if you use the LTSC version.

No chance I'd ever use standard Windows these days. Horrific.

Seems 24H2 is the first Windows 11 LTSC, yet people have been claiming to use LTSC on Windows 11 before 24H2. Interesting.

But anyway the only major issue I have heard of is related to a few WD SSDs. There is already a released fix for it.

 

[Onasi]

Seems 24H2 is the first Windows 11 LTSC, yet people have been claiming to use LTSC on Windows 11 before 24H2. Interesting.

I mean, some people also claim that they are Napoleon, their dad works at Nintendo and other silly things. The last LTSC was indeed 10 based one. Maybe people used one of those scuffed custom ISOs that are floating around and thought that they are LTSC since they are usually majorly gutted.

 

[jak_2456]

I have heard that 24H2 installs Recall as a part of explorer. Once I get a decent period of free time (kinda busy these days), I'll probably shrink my Windows partition on my XPS 15 and install Linux Mint in that space (I'll keep Windows around for some games w/anticheat). I've also started reading the book 1984, and I realize that having something on your PC taking screenshots at random intervals is far too similar to Big Brother (even if you can supposedly disable it).

 

[Onasi]

@jak_2456
It’s completely inert by default, at least as far as we can see. And is seemingly disable-able.

As this is relevant to Windows 11, I'm bring this subject over to this thread;


I am currently installing to test this. Will chime in with everyone to verify. I have no reason to doubt Chris, but just hadn't seen it yet.

EDIT:
On fresh install with an ISO freshly downloaded from microsoft, I'm not finding ReCall at all. No settings like those shown in the video, no services and nothing in the Task Manager or Task Scheduler.

CoPilot was there, but easily removed. Chris did mention that it was on his "inside" build. Maybe insiders builds have it? But ATM, it's not been pushed out to end users.
Additionally, when running the DISM command listed in the video( Dism /online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:"Recall" ), it did state that the feature was removed successfully.

This would imply that Recall is present on the system, but not enabled by default, which is in line with what microsoft promised to do.

I will keep a watchful eye on this one and follow up with new developments.

@lexluthermiester
Can confirm, if Recall is present (and it seems it is) it’s fully inert by default on non-supporting hardware and easily removed/disabled via PS. No services or processes were running and nothing in Task Scheduler or Events to imply it working. Question is how it will behave when/if MS decides to extend the support to more configs.
I am annoyed that it isn’t listed under System Components in Settings, though. Doesn’t matter if inert or not - it should be. Then again, seems like it’s less of a component/app and more of a layer on top of the explorer.

 

[jak_2456]

It’s completely inert by default, at least as far as we can see. And is seemingly disable-able.

Just the thought of them trying to implement it is enough to give me cold feet about keeping Win11 on my PC. I do not trust Microsoft.

 

[Vayra86]

I've got a pre-release build of 24H2 and I think I'll be keeping that, unless the release build of IoT Enterprise also lacks the Recall bullshit, which this one does.

Zero issues.

 

[GerKNG]

FYI it automatically enables bitlocker on almost all drives. make sure to disable that ransomware.