Personal opinion, win 11 is great. Have not had a single issue for 5 years. Much more resistant to malware effecting the bootloader, etc. No issue with games though to be fair I doubled my RAM to 32gb before the apocalypse lol
Must… Resist… Urge…
I boot two machines with the same peripheral setup on a switch, one W10 and one W11. All drivers are up to date on both, the W11 machine makes the monitors constantly flicker on and off and is essentially unusable during anything that uses a few % points of CPU. MISERABLE.
Windows 10 is now in that sweet spot where it’s no longer getting borked by updates, but is still widely supported by most Windows software. Windows 7 was like that from 2020 until around late 2023. Windows 10 probably has got about 2, maybe 3 years left and then you’ll start seeing support for Windows 10 getting dropped.
If using Windows, ltsc is the only version to use. Stripped of lot of the bullshit by default, no Microsoft store, no onedrive, copilot, etc. Not sure if it is a ltsc feature, but can also uninstall edge.
Whether on 10 or 11, ltsc is the most Windows 7 like experience before Microsoft started pushing Windows Store, preloading programs, and pushing account sign in.
I have to use windows at work and… Yeah, 11 is such trash.
This is the curse of being on the feature release of Windows compared to maintenance mode. Windows 10 also had awful bugs when it was the main squeeze. Remember One Drive causing file loss?
Don’t want to be surprised by bugs? Swap to Debian Stable or something.
I don’t think the level of fuckups of W10 back in the day was this insane. And if it was, we could agree Microsoft has an endemic problem with releasing undercooked software. At any rate, comparison or not, they need to get a proper QA team, yesterday.
Lesson learned: Only use a windows version after it has matured (Windows 10)
Linux has been fine for me for a couple years. Fuck Microsoft.
I’m currently dealing with an annoying Linux bug, but it’s specific to one distro and I’m already planning to switch to something more stable.
Linux certainly has its share of annoyances. But I’d much rather deal with the Linux annoyances than the Windows ones.
If Linux screws up, it’s nearly always my fault, and I can almost always find a way to fix it (and in the process gain a little more knowledge about how the whole thing functions).
It’s how I imagine car mechanics feel about building and driving a car.
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No shit. It irks me to no end they ‘updated’ the installers of pre win 11 versions of their software to force an upgrade to 11 before they will even install. Visual studio can suck my balls.
I switched my gaming system from Windows 7 to 10 (Edu) when Steam stopped supporting 7 and 10 stopped getting feature updates. Has been pretty stable and annoyance-free since then. If I ever need 11 I hope it’ll be after that stops getting feature updates too, but Linux is the more likely future.
Switch over to Linux now - the transition is by far not as harsh as it was a decade ago, and with Wine and accompanying technologies you’ll be running whatever software you need in no time.
I was running Win10 as a gamer, because there was no alternative back then. Nowadays i am somewhat surprised if i stumble across some software i can’t just run, and those are in most cases easily replaceable.
I’ve been using Windows 11 ltsc and that is stripped down with no Windows Store, onedrive, etc. And it just gets security updates. But, has the one feature I did care about with auto hdr.
Sorry Microsoft, Window is …, well, I don’t know. I haven’t used any in over a year. I never will again.
