Is Windows 11 worth it?

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Thistle said:
At least on linux you aren't forced into updating unless you set up that way. don't know how many times windows updates has wasted time just because it wants to update after weeks of not using it.
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Speaking of forced updates, I hate the delivery optimization on Windows 10. For some strange reason on one of my machines that function can't be stopped and it takes all the bandwidth of my Internet even though the system is up to date and the service being disabled in the settings. The only solution I found was to limit the bandwidth used by windows update (I set it to 0.1 Mbps) but it's still weird because there's nothing to download and yet it keeps wasting the bandwidth.
 
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This thread is hilarious. Cowboy here complains about Windows then he starts to bitch and whine about Linux being too hard. In a thread about windows 11. This shit doesn't even need it's own thread if ya'll are all going to bicker about Linux for 4 pages. It's a simple question with a simple answer and thst is no.
 
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MundusVivendi said:
W11 is good if you're a cuck, or, what is worse, a trannie that works in the interests of low tier government service agency.

Other than that - either avoid at all cost, find cleansed ie spyware-free version of win7\10 (can't recommend 8 despite the fact I've used it and it wasn't that shitty), install one and call it a day.

OR... you can always turn codesocks and install Linux.
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eh, I like 11
 
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Turd Cow said:
This thread is hilarious. Cowboy here complains about Windows then he starts to bitch and whine about Linux being too hard. In a thread about windows 11. This shit doesn't even need it's own thread if ya'll are all going to bicker about Linux for 4 pages. It's a simple question with a simple answer and thst is no.
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I'm not the only one doing it, but whatever
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, this is also besides the fact that Linux was mentioned here a few dozen times before, it should tell you exactly why I and a few others bicker about it.

Don't bring Linux in a discussion shitting on Windows and then nobody starts to complain about Linux, simple.
 
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Considered upgrading to take advantage of better usage of E cores and thread utilization on Alder Lake. I believe updater scheduler was added into Win10 1902/20H2 which makes it unnecessary for the most part.
 
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Kiwi & Cow said:
Just updating to say that someone else on another thread said that to edit or remove registry keys in Windows 11 you need the command line whereas in previous versions of Windows you could use the GUI's registry editor or "regedit". Yeah remember that one?
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No idea if true, but if it is then I'm seriously doubting that Windows 11 will be anything but garbage, even when it reaches its end of life (Kinda like how Windows 8 has since turned out to be okay, despite how shitty it was at the start) since Microsoft decided to delete important components from their OS for whatever reason and will possibly keep this trend going with other system/administrative components.
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Nah, Regedit still works.

Also, Microsoft recently said it will be releasing a new version of Windows every 3 years from here on out, so get used to new versions of Windows again. The next version is set for 2024.
 
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Unless you have to have it for some reason, it's just like legit almost any other new version of windows MS pumps out. Wait till it matures some, then upgrade if you are locked in to doing so. If you can still use the prior version, use that.

Right now, 11 is way too new to recommend for anyone other than early adopters or those going with new hardware stupidly locked to it. It's going to be massively full of bugs and the usual MS bullshit.

As far as linux goes, it's made huge strides since I started messing around with it back in the early 90's and it's a capable windows replacement with a few caveats. Namely, if you don't use hardware known to work with linux (and sometimes only redhat/fedora or ubuntu) prepare to spend time trying to make your shit work. If you don't feel like it or don't have the time, don't bother with linux period unless you like the problem solving process. Really, I would say if you just want a computer that you can turn on and simply use for day to day shit, get a chromebook or low end win 10 laptop. Gaming on linux is lightyears better than it used to be, but if you're going to jump into that particular arena, make sure you have compatible hardware or you probably will be doing the problem solving thing again. As has been mentioned, Nvidia has been great at proprietary linux drivers for some time now, I would go with them over AMD still.

I personally don't have any linux partitions on my main machine, but I keep an old core 2 duo quad boot with 4 different distros on just to fuck around with (:heart-full: Arch). Linux can be a lot of fun if you enjoy messing with it. If you try it and you don't, ignore spergs who champion it as the be all and end all of OS choices, cause it ain't and never will or should be. Windows has it's issues, but it still has the best support because it has the largest market share and thus, support from manufacturers.
 
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Wash away the rain said:
It’s not worth it especially if you don’t have a usb wifi adapter and have a craptop, my sister updated her laptop and she needed my wifi adapter because the instal deleted her wifi driver so she needed to use a usb adaptor to install a driver for wifi to work without one.
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That can be easily solved by [???]. I don't remember what I did but decently computer competent people had struggled with it for hours. Whatever the solution was it was unrelated to the problem, took five minutes and no one learned anything.
 
I just bought a laptop with it and pinch zooming is enabled by default and I cannot disable it in the Bluetooth & Devices menu. Which is where you go to change touch pad settings. Bluetooth and Devices. I fucked around in various menus trying to figure out how to disable that, the pictures in walk throughs closer to W11's launch do not match the menus I have on this build. I am returning it tomorrow morning, it's all of the bad UI design of 10 with less options, more shit hidden away from the user, chat is fucking pinned to the taskbar. Using Windows 11 poorly for one hour has made me hate Indians IRL.

Edit: I have solved the problem with Windows 10 LTSC.
 
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Pissmaster said:
It's definitely in the ME/Vista/8 tier of OSes.
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ME had innovations, but was bogged down by an aging kernel and stability issues. Vista had a beautiful GUI, but was bogged down by unneeded additions and the constant nagging about security. Windows 8... okay that sucked and its attempts to push its smartphone GUI can be chucked out the window.

Meanwhile, Windows 11 simply has no reason to exist (other than because Apple had the idea to update macOS 10 to 11 after nearly two decades). It's bad enough it heightened system requirements to a point that a lot of older machines do not support it (especially 32-bit machines), but the fact its security requirements means that nothing older than 2017 are supported makes it all the more ridiculous. The fact Microsoft had to release an official guide on how to get Windows 11 to work on older machines just shows they aren't taking it seriously at all.
 
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Win 11 are not on any of my machines. That should tell you on how bad it certainly is because it is really just a cash grab as well as continuing their closed garden approach of their software.

IMHO 10 years or so this OS will be Subscription based through all outlets.
 
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