It's sad and ironic to see phrasing like "We’re proud that Windows 11 is the most inclusively designed version of Windows" when you're basically telling all your long-time power-users to fuck off. Then again, "inclusive" has already become a loaded doublespeak word in these times.<p><i>We’ve improved the experiences for touch in Windows 11 when you’re using a tablet without a keyboard. You’ll see more space between the icons in the Taskbar</i><p>What if I'm NOT using one?<p>Thank you Microsoft, for taking away even more customisation, dumbing down the OS to new levels, and shoving more adverts in our faces. Now people have even more reasons than before to try Linux or macOS.<p><i>A new era for the PC begins today</i><p>You're right about that --- an even more locked-down and user-hostile (all in the name of "security", of course) era begins.<p>As a long-time Win32 developer who started writing utilities for DOS and then moved to Win16 for a short while, the direction that Windows (and the PC platform in general) is going is really sad and horrifying to see.
It surprises and disappoints me to see them making all of Windows Vista's mistakes again.<p>Four months public beta wherein they fixed almost none of the major problems. Listened to almost none of the user feedback. Massive inconsistencies and half complete ideas abound.<p>This isn't the worst Windows I've tried, but it is perhaps the worst RTM. If this was still in public beta I'd call it "serviceable" as a daily driver if you can deal with the quirks.<p>But RTM-ing this? Shipping new computers with an even buggier build than the latest? Ouch. My barely computer-literate relatives should not walk into a Costco and out with a computer with <i>this</i> initial experience.
Not that your IT department will be letting you update today, but something to look forward to is that Teams in Windows 11 uses the shared Edge WebView runtime (replacing Electron), which means it takes around 50% of the RAM it did in Windows 10.<p>Also, WSL graphics support (which isn't coming to Windows 10 for some reason), winget has been moved to stable (that is coming to Windows 10), and Windows Terminal is included in the box (but doesn't replace the cmd.exe or powershell.exe terminal emulator for some reason).
The hosts of popular gaming channel Linus Tech Tips challenged one another to switch to Linux. Maybe Windows 11 is so power user hostile and Steam Deck is the push everyone needed that 2022 will finally be the year of Desktop Linux?
The result of development driven by "group studies" and "user feedback". When you conform to the ideas of the most basic users, you get a system unfit for those that that are not browsing Facebook and playing Farmville.<p>Windows lost 10% market share to mac and Linux since 2019. Microsoft should be firing more people and having singular leadership in direction. Make something for the developers, the graphic artists, the people that need their operating system to be apart of their work, not hinder it.<p>This falls on deaf ears of course, Microsoft is far from saving unless something significant of top leadership gets the boot and somehow attracts a new visionary that isn't already working in greener pastures.
Welp, I guess it's not for me. I'm unable to upgrade my Microsoft Service Pro (2017) as the CPU is not supported. Which is odd, the CPU is more than capable and all the other requirements are met. I get the feeling of planned obsolescence.
So the Microsoft product managers got bored with the current iteration of the start menu, and decided to feed their fetish by redesigning it again, and calling it a "new era for the PC". It's like watching a mid life crisis unfold.
With outages like Facebook had today, is it safe to use an operating system which disallows local accounts for nonpro versions?<p>Not a rhetorical question.
I've seen a lot of complaints about the minimum requirement of TPM 2.0, and many computers not having one.<p>In my case on a Z270 PC from 2017, a BIOS update enabled the dormant and otherwise unadvertised TPM.
My anecdotal experience with 11 is it seems fine.
- My mechanical engineering applications have no issues, I can do my job.
- It defaulted to focus mode so there's been no distractions so far while I'm working.
- Not finding any friction with the OS yet, just nice touches with UI and an overhauled settings menu that seems fairly intuitive.
- The "Start menu" search seems to work much better and has always been my primary interaction with the OS, I never navigate, setup your index locations correctly and you'll never go back.<p>Notes:
I had switched to Edge back when it became Chromium based. Privacy aside, it's not IE and it works for me.
I don't tweak the OS unless there is friction with getting what I need done, if my apps run it's doing its job. If I need extra functionality then an application is responsible to add it, not the OS.<p>If you're trying to do something dramatically different to how the base OS works then obviously its not the OS for you, if you have no choice then try working with the OS and not against it. If you're trying to run old applications based on old APIs then you need an old OS don't expect them to always work in future.<p>A lot of complaints seem to sound like people who want to use a linux-based OS but for some reason refuse to?
I'm also curious what customisations are being made, are they actually functional or are you just spending too much time on r/unixporn and trying to make things pretty, please elaborate on your griefs.
If you don't want to wait for the rollout you can install windows 11 immediately with windows 11 assistant here's the link : <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=nOD/rLJHOac&ranSiteID=nOD_rLJHOac-Gw78EVTtUJcGqx33C82dLw&epi=nOD_rLJHOac-Gw78EVTtUJcGqx33C82dLw&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2200057_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=%28ir__gl9unwp1i0kf6ib1cydiwswhr22xrclpf39mzkj200%29%287593%29%281243925%29%28nOD_rLJHOac-Gw78EVTtUJcGqx33C82dLw%29%28%29&irclickid=_gl9unwp1i0kf6ib1cydiwswhr22xrclpf39mzkj200" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11?...</a>
Apparently, Windows 11' requirement of a relatively recent CPU is due to the need for TPM 2.0 <a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-explains-windows-11-requirement-tpm-20" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-explains-windows-11...</a><p>Can anyone please explain what TPM (2.0) is and whether it works for or against me?
I'm almost glad my PC doesn't support it. I have zero reason to upgrade my current setup, it doesn't look like a decent upgrade - and I'm spending most of my time in Linux based systems anyway. This might just be the push I need to just wipe this horrible software from my computer forever.
11 feels like XP with a new skin. I think they are shell shocked from vista and will never make drastic changes again. I don’t blame them vista was complete disregard for existing apps.<p>Make a new OS without the windows debt.
Is the DWM memory leak fixed yet? I can't tell if it's an Intel or Microsoft issue, but it's been a disgrace how long it's been broken.
This may sound goofy, but at least 50% of the reason I personally switched to full-time Linux this year was the shock of terror I experienced when reading about the “no more moving the taskbar” thing. As a die-hard “taskbar on-the-side” guy (mostly because of all you kids and your big widescreen monitors!) the thought of not being able to change that filled me with just enough horror to finally migrate to Fedora earlier this year. Couldn’t be happier so far - honestly I wonder now why I didn’t do it sooner.