• Noughmad@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    A Windows version becomes considered “good” the exact moment a next version is released. No sooner, no later. Those are the rules.

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    It’s fine for Windows, I guess. They’ve made a bunch of UI improvements that I actually kind of liked. But they still try and force you to setup a Microsoft account when you install. And telemetry is hardly consensual. I think I turned off what I could by rooting around for privacy settings, but it still sends things like crash reports without asking.

    I don’t trust it. Just use it for games.

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    I have been using Windows 11 pro since it came out and it’s fine. I’m not sure why windows is obsessed with trying to replace their older, functional menus with the new style settings apps (which usually just lead back to the old style ones) but I never get reinstalled bloat, ads, or anything remotely like people are complaining about.

    For reference I do powershell for a living and use ArchLinux at work, and have windows 11 and arch machines at home, but use windows the most at home.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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    No. I reverted back to Windows 10 Pro for my gaming machine after Windows 11 Pro prompted me that it was “international bubble tea day”. Don’t get me wrong, I love bubble tea, I just don’t care for these distractions when I’m trying to use my PC.

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    Depends on what you mean by decent.

    For privacy it’s shit, it collects a bunch of data that’s sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.

    They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.

    If you don’t care about those things it’s fine, doesn’t get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can’t tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.

    The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don’t mind since I wasn’t using it anyway.

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      I guess I was asking broadly because last I heard anything about it was shortly after release when there was so many missing compatibilities, lots of things broken and unfinished, and everyone was hands down saying don’t touch it with a ten foot pole. It sounds like it has gotten a little better, enough for some people to be fine with it, but by the majority of the replies it sounds like it still isn’t “done” or is never going to be. All your information was helpful and I haven’t read elsewhere so thanks!

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    1 year ago

    Not until they bring back the “never combine” taskbar option. What a dumb idea to omit it for years and not expect push back. You had one job Microsoft.

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    I still can’t drag files to the task bar to open them with a particular program. Tabs on file explorer are a thing, but they don’t behave predictabily so I almost never use them.

    Overall still feels like a downgrade, but I’d have updated regardless just to get the little “update available” message to go away

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      Can’t deal with the complexity of linux for simple things but I do think it’s far superior, just not for me. So yeah I should have said vs other windows

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      Totally agree, battled with Windows 95 M8 (internship) and never wanted that junk on my own hardware.

      Even my wife is using Linux. Most users don’t use more then an office suite and a browser.

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      There are mountains of software and hardware that aren’t compatible with Linux.

      And when it’s mission critical or work related stuff you can’t afford to mess around with translation layers or virtualization.

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    I only changed from windows 11 to Linux mint there over the weekend. I was sick of having to update the laptop every day when I wanted to shut it down

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    Bought days gone (game) on steam. Would not launch on windows 11. Tried to get a refund. But it had been two weeks. Launch d it on my steam deck and it worked great.

    So. No… It’s sucks.

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      It works fine. It’s just you. The year of linux is every year.

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      That sounds like an issue with Days Gone not Windows. I’m running fedora as my daily but that doesn’t change the fact that every game I’ve played works on Windows out of the box, the same cannot be said for Linux.

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        He’s cherry picking or has some weird edge case issue. I have 20 year old games installed on Windows 11 that run fine. There are no compatibility issues with games on Windows 11

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          Naw brand new Lenovo legion gaming laptop. Nothing interesting installed on it when I tried this.

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    Yep. Especially if you are just a regular user who likes gaming. Features like auto HDR and better support for 4k monitors are what made me love it over win 10. There are things that still annoy users but there is also a lot to like. I’m a fan of the centered Taskbar and the improvement to the right click menu.

    Also if you are a power user there is always something you can download to fix annoyances. Just like Linux, win 10/7, there is always stuff to tweak and modify. If none of that really is your thing though you will be just fine as it has the easiest experience out of the box atm.

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    It’s fine for Windows. I highly recommend coughing up the money for the pro version so you actually control some of the OS, since MS decided to remove things like the group policy editor from regular users. You’ll need that if you don’t want Windows shoving updates down your throat all the time.

    I like the UI more then Windows 10. I don’t know why reddit had such a hard on for 10 but 11 is much faster and more responsive than 10 was.

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      Windows is always faster and more responsive once you reinstall it, it doesn’t matter the version lol. I’m due for a proper nuking myself, now that I think about it.