So whats the general opinion on Windows 11?

[DocShady]

I'm still running 10 on my machine. I haven't been actively avoiding 11 per-se but I didn't see a reason to upgrade early on. I know some folks avoided it because of some early growing pains.
My machine has been prompting me to upgrade lately and I wanted to know what you guys generally thing of 11 a year after its release.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Depends what your full PC specs are for starters. If you do upgrade I wouldn't do it via Windows Updates. Instead make your own bootable USB Flash Drive with Win11 using the MS Tool on the official Win11 website.

[Electric Cupcake]

Kill it with fire.

[plat]

Meh. Yawn. Snooze.

Windows 12 is due in (later) 2024.

[Strawberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

win11 on my laptop
win10 on my desktop
win10 on my tablet
win7 on my slimline
mac osx snow leopard on my macbook
winxp on my old dell laptop
ubuntu and mint on old hp laptop

[indedragon]

I've heard it's going to go like Vista, 10 will still be going when 12 arrives. Part of the problem is it rejects some hardware as to old. Most laptops come with it but they are new. I'm told it has a problem with older equipment and won't work with it the same way Vista did. If you look under Steam Help you will find "System information" look at how many people run the newer hardware. You will find older system are the rule not the exceptions. I will just wait on Windows 12 even though my system is pretty much up to date.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

hopefully micorcreeps arrogance in trying to prematurely obsolete perfectly fine computers makes them lose their monopoly

[plat]

I mean, if one is curious, one can demo it like anything else. If you're not pleased with it, go back to 10. No one really has the decisive opinion on 11 b/c everyone's behaviors, hardware and software configurations vary.

Some people love it. Others like me find it perfectly underwhelming. One thing, though: it's been very stable since I first installed it end of June 2021 with a bootleg ISO. I've been running 11 Insider builds ever since. It's had some hiccups to be sure but haven't they all?

[Tiberius]

Its trying so hard to be the next mac

[Illusion of Progress]

I dislike it a little less than Windows 10 while at the same time disliking it a little more than Windows 10. For clarity, I don't hold Windows 10 in high regards either, but it's also decently usable. That largely extends to Windows 11 too.

引用自 indedragon：

I've heard it's going to go like Vista, 10 will still be going when 12 arrives.

That's basically been the status quo though. Windows 7 was still going when Windows 10 arrived, and kept going for years and years after the fact. Windows 98 was still going when Windows XP arrived. Windows 2000 was still going when Windows Vista (and even Windows 7!) arrived. You get the idea.

[Pocahawtness]

I really don't understand why they changed the taskbar for 11. It was perfectly fine as it was. And they are constantly tweaking it now, just making it worse and worse.

Apart from that you are unlikely to notice many changes really.

[[N]ebsun]

Windows 11 is 75% a copy of Windows 10, and the remaining 25% is a worse UI.

Feels as if they are taking the things that make Windows "Windows" out, getting us all ready for when they replace it with Linux

[Haruspex]

It's fine. Completely unexciting though. Could have just been an update to 10, but the requirement for a hardware TPM forced it into a new version.

引用自 Nebsun：

Windows 11 is 75% a copy of Windows 10, and the remaining 25% is a worse UI.

Feels as if they are taking the things that make Windows "Windows" out, getting us all ready for when they replace it with Linux

Yeah. I hypothesized years ago that some future version of Windows will just be a Windows flavored Linux distro. They've already implemented the terminal even.

[plat]

Well, there was noise some time back that in addition to tpm and cpu requirements, Micro would require an SSD as a boot drive eventually, starting with Windows 11 in 2023. This can change yet, so it's not there yet. Just noise at this point.

There are several articles on this online. But there you have it. More electronic waste, from a trillion-dollar corp. that actually doesn't give a rat's patootie, just says it does for brownie points.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

Win 11 is a flop, that's the general opinion.

I was excited and installed Win 11 in the 1st day of release. But It leaded to only disappointment. After using 6 months, I rolled back to Win 10.

[Illusion of Progress]

引用自 plat：

Well, there was noise some time back that in addition to tpm and cpu requirements, Micro would require an SSD as a boot drive eventually, starting with Windows 11 in 2023. This can change yet, so it's not there yet. Just noise at this point.

It's noise because Microsoft isn't restricting one from installing to an HDD if they so choose, and it's rather unlikely they will. What they were doing was requiring OEMs not to be selling Windows on PCs if an HDD was the only storage media. It's 2022, so I sort of get that. It's not much different than when they required TPMs with Windows 8/10 (though the OS itself didn't yet require it, and by time it did with Windows 11, needing version 2.0 and not 1.x and many third party boards not even having a header made the effective CPU support list limited to rather recent ones). So, it's not even the first time they've done that, but people took the slippery slope approach with this one and ran with it.

As as for e-waste, I have to wonder if this save some, if any. Far too many people buy "newer" PCs (like my sister a few years ago) and then because it has an HDD, they may be likely to either replace the whole thing outright because it's slow when the PC itself it probably more than fast enough and just slowed down by the HDD, or at best they know this and at least replace the HDD with an SSD, still making the HDD in those situations the unnecessary waste from the start.

引用自 🦜Cloud Boy🦜：

Win 11 is a flop, that's the general opinion.

Opinion is far more mixed IMO than it was for Windows 10, and the adoption rate hasn't signified it's been a complete flop, at least not when considering the barriers of entry (namely, TPM and the CPU support list).

That said, Microsoft has seemingly gotten off the trend they were on with Windows 10 and are back to releasing new versions every few years, as rumors indicate a "new" in development version (Windows 12 or whatever you call it) so you'll probably see a replacement in a couple of years. Shame it was Windows 10 of all versions they chose to sit on for longer. Should have been Windows 7.