The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

[long waters]

I just ordered a new Lenovo laptop that comes with Win11 installed.
I've been using the same Dell with Win10 on it since like 2017.

Is there any merit to just flashing a Win10 install on it in the year of our Lord 2026 or am I just better off sucking it up and dealing with Win11 and yanking all the bloatware off?

I have slid into my boomer era and my competency levels with new tech have dwindled so any advice or recommendations on cleanup utilities/useful software is always helpful

I was considering getting the fancy new P16 third gen thonkpad, but the thought of getting it and using Windows 11 is just making me not want to do that at all. Unfortunately, I am more or less married to NetFramework at work, so I am kind of stuck with Windows for a while longer.
PS: HOLY FUCK, I was looking up prices for the highest end model P16 here and there's a store selling one with a core ultra 9 275HX and only 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD for fucking 9K?! That costs more than my car. Jeez dood!

 

[Jang Joo]

Is there any merit to just flashing a Win10 install on it in the year of our Lord 2026 or am I just better off sucking it up and dealing with Win11 and yanking all the bloatware off?

I did that with my laptop from 2023 (came with 11, downgraded to 10) and it works almost flawlessly. The audio driver leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still fighting it to this day. Goes to sleep too often, has some very brief moments where the audio drops to almost nothing and immediately comes back, weird shit like that. Every now and then I see if there's something different or better but I haven't quite figured it out yet.

 

[Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds]

I did that with my laptop from 2023 (came with 11, downgraded to 10) and it works almost flawlessly. The audio driver leaves a bit to be desired, I'm still fighting it to this day. Goes to sleep too often, has some very brief moments where the audio drops to almost nothing and immediately comes back, weird shit like that. Every now and then I see if there's something different or better but I haven't quite figured it out yet.

This is surprisingly almost a non-issue for me.

The childhood instruction of 'turn the volume down' has made it so that I almost never play games with the volume up at all. I have played through entire modern games without hearing a peep of sound design.

I played through almost the entirety of Jedi Survivor without hearing what any of the main characters sound like

Edit: spelling

 

[Dante Alighieri]

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This is surprisingly almost a non-issue for me.

The childhood instruction of 'turn the volume down' has made it so that I almost never play games with the volume up at all. I have played through entire modern games without hearing a peep of sound design.

I played through almost the entirety of Jedi Survivor without hearing what any of the main characters sound like

Edit: spelling

We would turn the sound off on our Gameboys to keep the battery alive longer.

Spoiler

and to keep mom and dad from remembering we still had them, so we could play through the night

 

[Curry Teafag]

I was considering getting the fancy new P16 third gen thonkpad, but the thought of getting it and using Windows 11 is just making me not want to do that at all. Unfortunately, I am more or less married to NetFramework at work, so I am kind of stuck with Windows for a while longer.
PS: HOLY FUCK, I was looking up prices for the highest end model P16 here and there's a store selling one with a core ultra 9 275HX and only 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD for fucking 9K?! That costs more than my car. Jeez dood!

The HP Omen Max (275HX, 64 GiB, 2 TB, 5090, 240Hz 1600p OLED) can be had at €3,450 here from the HP Renew program with 1 year warranty.