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You’re asking the wrong people. Everyone on here are sweaty for Linux.
Isn’t that the tech tips YouTube guy? What does he have to do with selling 11 windows
A Windows version becomes considered “good” the exact moment a next version is released. No sooner, no later. Those are the rules.
Depends on what you mean by decent.
For privacy it’s shit, it collects a bunch of data that’s sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.
They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.
If you don’t care about those things it’s fine, doesn’t get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can’t tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.
The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don’t mind since I wasn’t using it anyway.
I guess I was asking broadly because last I heard anything about it was shortly after release when there was so many missing compatibilities, lots of things broken and unfinished, and everyone was hands down saying don’t touch it with a ten foot pole. It sounds like it has gotten a little better, enough for some people to be fine with it, but by the majority of the replies it sounds like it still isn’t “done” or is never going to be. All your information was helpful and I haven’t read elsewhere so thanks!
I see. If your concern is unfinished features, I don’t think you have to worry about that anymore.
What you could do is spin up a virtual machine and test it out there. Here’s the official guide on how to do it.
I have been using Windows 11 pro since it came out and it’s fine. I’m not sure why windows is obsessed with trying to replace their older, functional menus with the new style settings apps (which usually just lead back to the old style ones) but I never get reinstalled bloat, ads, or anything remotely like people are complaining about.
For reference I do powershell for a living and use ArchLinux at work, and have windows 11 and arch machines at home, but use windows the most at home.
Not until they bring back the “never combine” taskbar option. What a dumb idea to omit it for years and not expect push back. You had one job Microsoft.
Oh man, I never even knew they had taken that away. I noped out the moment I heard they had removed the Quick Launch toolbar, but if not for that, the forced combining or tasks would have done the trick.
Looks like they will bring back the option, see https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/hands-on-with-windows-11s-never-combine-taskbar-feature/
I am using this (enabled with ViveTool) and they need to give us an option to standardize the width. It’s so fuckin annoying to have your taskbar move around when you change tabs or songs. It’s also annoying that short window titles get crunched down to a tiny button.
Bought days gone (game) on steam. Would not launch on windows 11. Tried to get a refund. But it had been two weeks. Launch d it on my steam deck and it worked great.
So. No… It’s sucks.
That sounds like an issue with Days Gone not Windows. I’m running fedora as my daily but that doesn’t change the fact that every game I’ve played works on Windows out of the box, the same cannot be said for Linux.
Ah damn, if there’s still a good chunk of games unsupported, its definitely not there yet
He’s cherry picking or has some weird edge case issue. I have 20 year old games installed on Windows 11 that run fine. There are no compatibility issues with games on Windows 11
Naw brand new Lenovo legion gaming laptop. Nothing interesting installed on it when I tried this.
No.
Yep. Especially if you are just a regular user who likes gaming. Features like auto HDR and better support for 4k monitors are what made me love it over win 10. There are things that still annoy users but there is also a lot to like. I’m a fan of the centered Taskbar and the improvement to the right click menu.
Also if you are a power user there is always something you can download to fix annoyances. Just like Linux, win 10/7, there is always stuff to tweak and modify. If none of that really is your thing though you will be just fine as it has the easiest experience out of the box atm.
I’ve been having major issues with my 4k monitor so that’s great to know.
Only reasons for using it are games and work
I got an ad even though I have all ad service things turned off. It came via my messages tray. It was for some screenshot app Microsoft wanted me to use.
If this doesn’t answer your question, I can’t be of much help.
It’s fine for Windows. I highly recommend coughing up the money for the pro version so you actually control some of the OS, since MS decided to remove things like the group policy editor from regular users. You’ll need that if you don’t want Windows shoving updates down your throat all the time.
I like the UI more then Windows 10. I don’t know why reddit had such a hard on for 10 but 11 is much faster and more responsive than 10 was.
Windows is always faster and more responsive once you reinstall it, it doesn’t matter the version lol. I’m due for a proper nuking myself, now that I think about it.
No and it will never be
Use tiny11 builder from ntdevlabs on GitHub and Chris Titus’s windows toolkit (from GitHub too) to clean things up further. But if you are putting so much effort might as well use linux
