Why are people still afraid of moving to windows 11?

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Once my friend told me about how it uses CPU E-cores better than windows 10. Because I use an i7 13700kf, I moved over to it and system feels even more smoother now. Boot times are even quicker than before with windows 10 pro.

[nullable]

Windows 10 isn't aware of different types of cores, so it will randomly use E cores when it should use P cores. It's certainly the carrot on a stick that got me to switch when I built my i7 12700k system last year.

Aside from that it's all the usual stuff. People form an opinion and never change it. People hate change. People hate the unknown. People have legitimate gripes with what windows 11 is doing, or they're at least willing to parrot the people who do. And this happens with nearly every flagship version of Windows.

In short, no one has more problems than people, and that's why.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

There's still people afraid of windows 10! Windows 11 will make them pass out.

[Karumati]

Originally posted by W O K E I S M:

There's still people afraid of windows 10! Windows 11 will make them pass out.

Sounds like win7 user to me

[Electric Cupcake]

Fear has nothing to do with it.

Microsoft has only doubled down on the outrageous should-be-illegal ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. There's workarounds for the worst of it, but you shouldn't have to. Everyone who thinks ads and literal spyware in the OS and forced updates and demanding an online account are ever okay are enablers who are part of the problem.

[Karumati]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Fear has nothing to do with it.

Microsoft has only doubled down on the outrageous should-be-illegal ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. There's workarounds for the worst of it, but you shouldn't have to. Everyone who thinks ads and literal spyware in the OS and forced updates and demanding an online account are ever okay are enablers who are part of the problem.

Haven’t seen any ads on win11pro

[Trollhammer]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Fear has nothing to do with it.

Microsoft has only doubled down on the outrageous should-be-illegal ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. There's workarounds for the worst of it, but you shouldn't have to. Everyone who thinks ads and literal spyware in the OS and forced updates and demanding an online account are ever okay are enablers who are part of the problem.

Tech illiteracy and conspiracy theory whenever you don't have any arguments...

Or maybe you can prove your points for once ?

[Electric Cupcake]

Microsoft's completely unacceptable data collection policies are well documented. While they can be blocked with gpedit and shutup10 and Pihole, again, we shouldn't have to. Same with the local account workarounds and blocking updates.

[plat]

I'm thinking some don't migrate to 11 for the same basic reason/s some others haven't migrated to anything else.

It's fear of the unknown, worrying that something dire will happen to the hardware, particularly if it's older stuff. I can trace this back to when Windows 10 first came out and there a lot of outcries about updates and forced migrations that made some peoples' machines just up and dies. Microsoft got sued for that and the plaintiff won.

That stuff tends to stick with you over time. If your hardware and present system are in good shape, it's OK to try.

[plat]

Re: telemetry--you can't get away from it completely. And to be fair, Microsoft needs basic info about one's hardware in order to get the proper drivers.

Advertising telemetry is where I draw the line. If you don't run Edge browser and/or Bing search, that's a lot already. I don't want nags about upgrading to Pro or getting 365 festooned in my Settings app either. That's why I block a lot in the firewall.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

shouldnt need workarounds too install an OS "not a service" the way you want.

want offline account to increase safety? Nope you got to physically unplug and rerun installer
dont want bing? too bad its always running in background

treat people like garbage is not nice

[ken87]

Oh no get away winblows 11 your evil I'm melting ooooooooo

[wesnef]

Originally posted by plat:

I'm thinking some don't migrate to 11 for the same basic reason/s some others haven't migrated to anything else.

It's fear of the unknown, worrying that something dire will happen to the hardware, particularly if it's older stuff. .

There's also "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." As long as the current thing I've got installed is still working, why go through whatever annoyances/etc to get something newer? Kept using XP until I had to move to 7, kept using 7 until I built my new PC in 2020 (and installed 10). Same with Mac OS's, stretching all the way back to Systems 6 and 7 in the 90's. Bugged the heck out of some of the computer guys in my dorm :D.

(and this carries over to everything else, and is likely something I learned from my family. We ran our cars until 100-150k miles, we're still using a 39" 1080p non-smart TV from years ago as our 'main' TV. Etc. Until something breaks or no longer works, no reason to upgrade. People who buy NEW whatever every couple years just confuse the heck out of me, why waste $ like that.)

[ken87]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Originally posted by plat:

I'm thinking some don't migrate to 11 for the same basic reason/s some others haven't migrated to anything else.

It's fear of the unknown, worrying that something dire will happen to the hardware, particularly if it's older stuff. .

There's also "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." As long as the current thing I've got installed is still working, why go through whatever annoyances/etc to get something newer? Kept using XP until I had to move to 7, kept using 7 until I built my new PC in 2020 (and installed 10). Same with Mac OS's, stretching all the way back to Systems 6 and 7 in the 90's. Bugged the heck out of some of the computer guys in my dorm :D.

(and this carries over to everything else, and is likely something I learned from my family. We ran our cars until 100-150k miles, we're still using a 39" 1080p non-smart TV from years ago as our 'main' TV. Etc. Until something breaks or no longer works, no reason to upgrade. People who buy NEW whatever every couple years just confuse the heck out of me, why waste $ like that.)

Now this is my kind of thinking one of the first posts that hits the nail on the head according most posts if it isn't new then dispose of it , Bravo a+ post

[Haruspex]

They fear change. They get comfortable with their current setup, and they have a negative reaction to being told they have no choice other than to switch. Even if they might have been receptive to upgrading before, once they're told that they have to, emotions take over.

[emoticorpse]

My main reason was TPM and other stupid requirements like internet for setup. Having to work your way around that is unacceptable to me.