I’m upgrading my system, and I’m debating windows 11. IS it worse then windows 10?
Windows of any kind is pretty meh, but 10 is getting near it’s limits.
To get 11 or not to get 11?
What about older games? Many compatibility issues?
11 is fine i guess. It took me a few regedits and google searches to make it tolerable. It still has that ugly uber-minimalist aesthetic.
The main thing about it that is absolute garbage is that file explorer’s menu becomes significantly worse. It now takes two right-clicks to go to the proper context menu instead of one; again, regedit solves this.
Crysis didn’t work with Win11 but apparently the steam guide I followed to fix the problem also mentions it crashing on any Windows version later than 7, so whatever.
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it’s objectively worse because of the massive bloat to your bandwidth and violently trying to force the entire UI to run through windows edge for some reason, but 10 is already getting depreciated because windows wants everyone on the same edition so you’re largely boned if you wanna game.
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Kinda what I was thinking. Anyone know anything about tiny 11? It’s suppose to be a way to install win 11 with less bloat. ?
any chance you can link me to the fix for this cause my god it grinds my gears and i never found a decent fix
I’ve found it more than fine. Naysayers are of course welcome to use Linux for free.
What is pretty good (versus 10) is that it has the built in ability to run Linux in a shell of sorts - look up WSL - if that’s relevant for you. That’s really helpful for me in my job, where a lot of cloud instances use Linux docker images.
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I totally agree! Windows 11 has been great for me too, especially with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It’s a game-changer for anyone who needs to work with Linux environments, like in cloud computing or using Docker. WSL lets you run Linux distributions directly on Windows, without a virtual machine, making it super efficient. It’s perfect for managing and deploying applications seamlessly across both local and cloud systems. Plus, you get the benefits of both Windows and Linux on one machine without the hassle of dual-booting.
Ive been debloating win 11 and after many hours tuning darktide on 10, win 11 has better NTFS file management and resolves disk I/O actitivity loading into the morningstar 10X faster in my case with a lower read write footprint than windows 10
If you’re really meaning to upgrade to w11, then go for it, but as others have mentioned - at this point it’s almost mandatory in my opinion to debloat the install.
LTT recently posted a pretty alright video that gives you all the right pointers. Just follow the rule of “If I really need it, I could install it later.” Unattend is godswork.
As for w11 changes: A LOT can be either reverted to its predeccesor version, or accessed nonetheless, if it’s just not renamed, due to the nature of how windows is built. They low-key pulled back on some of the dumbification to the menus and stuff they did, but a lot of stuff is just moved. The aforementioned is not neccesary, if you are willing to get used to the “new” - which is not better, nor neccesarily worse, especially for average user. If you end up thinking “What the f*ck is this? I want the old one”: Just type it into a searchbar and I guarantee you there will be a forum thread concerning the issue with some Indonesian windows guru reply containing the regedit steps required or a linux distro install link if it’s not possible.
Do a debloated install and disable non-security updates, after each quaterly and H1/H2 system updates windows will just force all the sh*t you specifically installed your windows without back onto itself, so don’t just blindly skip through updates and either skip them altogether or read through what they do - after each update run a debloat script from Chris Titus. (I just noticed that he posted a youtube guide to setup windows as well following the LTT windows video - here’s the video link if you’d like to watch that as well, chris titus is not as noobie friendly to watch.)
Create an image install of your concurrent system install on a backup or something just in case. If you’re worried that you wouldn’t be able to play something on windows 11 that you are able to play on windows 10 due to compability issues and you have storage real estate to spare, partition your disk and keep the cut down bare w10 install on the partition if you don’t want to VM or anything like that.
Also, if you’re meaning to activate your windows by using your microsoft account, please make sure your actual account is not set to import cloud data and if you’re importing customization settings then make sure it’s going to import just that - I’d personally advise on disconnecting onedrive altogether if you’re not using it in any serious way. If you’d want to use it for the free cloud space, you can use it through your browser.
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it is worse ltsc still has support until 2027 id suggest moving to that and giving windows more time to fix this slop
damn one year old post how was this not locked
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I for one, don’t care this post is not locked because other people might be interested in others opinions on this question, plus I have my own to contribute:
- Windows is for people who like their OS to fight against them.
- Linux is for people who like their OS to work alongside them.
Windows 11 is also extremely ugly, inconsistent, buggy, unstable, unreliable, and has abysmal performance. Ubuntu doesn’t really have any of those issues from what I can tell.
Pretty much all Steam games run on Linux too through their Proton thing, and you don’t even need to do any crazy configs to get it working. It is just a switch of a button.
I use Windows on my desktop because of certain software I need, but my laptop is dual booted with Ubuntu. I’ve heard good things about Arch Linux though so I might give it a go at some point.