I have a Lenovo box with Windows 10pro I use on&off, mainly for development and/or testing. Every time I wake it up from sleep it offers me to install or schedule the free upgrade to Windows 11.... and somewhere almost off-screen an option to stay on Windows 10, which is what I have chosen so far. I understand that Windows 10 is still supported, for now, and that there may be some headaches involved with switching to 11. But perhaps I'm missing out on significant improvements too.
Have you upgraded? If so, what are your impressions so far?
I was a big Windows user both at home and work, doing mainly .NET stuff.<p>I didn't really like the way Windows 11 was looking (the numerous privacy and control issues discussed many times over), so I told myself if MS ever forced the upgrade from 10 I'd look at Linux again.<p>I then got a new job that did everything on Linux, so I got some Linux experience and liked it, and switched over my home machines to PopOS. So far it's been pleasant.
To me, Win11 is basically identical to Win10. Some minor cosmetic differences, maybe some under the hood changes. Nothing noteworthy.<p>I swapped over and it's been no benefit or hindrance.<p>Time will tell what happens when our work machines are moved over to it, but I suspect very little.
It's not like MS will support Win10 until 2030 and you have a choice, is it?<p>As with any Windows, 11 is quite terrible, but it still lets you run your software and you eventually get used to it.<p>My favorite new bit of user-hostile nonsense is that a fresh install does not detect any of my laptop's network adapters, but still insists that I log in with a Microsoft account.
I recently got a new laptop that came with Win11. I decided to test-drive it before wiping it and installing Linux. Honestly, once you set it up with a local account, it's much better than Win10 for one reason: it's easy to run Linux GUI programs alongside native Windows ones. This is possible on Win10 by installing a Windows Xll server and so on, but it's enough of a pain that I use the Cygwin W32 port of Emacs (my IT department no longer supports Linux workstations). With Win11 I can just use the real, Linux Emacs GUI from Ubuntu, which is a major improvement.<p>Yes, I know I can use a "native" Windows version of Emacs, but to be comfortable I need more than just Emacs itself: I also need a Unix-y environment for it to live in. WSL provides exactly that.<p>I am still going to run Linux on the laptop long-term, but it's changed my mind for the next corporate refresh cycle. We usually get a choice of a Dell Windows machine or a Mac. I was leaning toward Mac for this next round, but I may stick with the Dell if I can get it in Win11.
I recently got a new work laptop that came with Windows 11. I haven’t really noticed any differences aside from the new Windows Terminal (which I like a lot and have integrated with git bash), new Task Manager, and some visual changes. I still prefer to run Linux on my personal systems.
I’m surprised there haven’t been any comments about <i>not even being able</i> to upgrade. My computer doesn’t have a TPM, so I’m stuck on Windows 10. I’m not sure what I’m missing out on, other than the taskbar being smaller and centered.
I switched to Windows 11 early on and honestly haven't really had any problems with it. It feels like Windows 10, but with a UI refresh. I mostly like what they've done with the refresh, though some things feel a bit bolted on (like the new right click menus).<p>The new terminal app feels good, though I think you could get it with Windows 10. The new task bar and start menu are "fine" and I don't really have any specific problem with them. I like that winget is baseline now.<p>I do have some nitpicks. For example, I have no idea why think having the centered task bar is a good idea, but that's fixable with a setting. Some of the things I took issue with required more intrusive fixing... which is pretty frustrating. I couldn't tell you exactly what I did to resolve these at this point.<p>I only use Windows for some of my development, but what I do use from Windows has continued to work without issue.
I have 2 work laptops, an M1 MBP and a XPS 15 that I upgraded to Windows 11 a while back.<p>It's fine. Better than Windows 10 was. My explorer has tabs now, among a few other nice things. Nothing broke.
No, they come through our shop and still fully patched, glitch out in the most ridiculous ways related to start menu, search, etc. Also not very happy about all the ewaste this is going to create, our customers were fine with the performance of 2-7th gen cpus. The only good thing about it: still executes legacy software.
Win10 is EOL, Win11 has been out for a few years now, already used by major corporations. For engineers, WSL2 is actively being pushed by nvidia and other companies as the standard for LINUX development.<p>I waited until he was stable enough, other than the taskbar which is easy to fix via a 3rd party program, most of my issues are fixed. WSL2+Windows+MS Code integration is amazing.
lowly sysadmin/devops engineer here.<p>Professionally, I haven't noticed too many differences since I'm able to use WSL2.<p>Personally, I'm trying to do some gamedev with Godot. Getting neovim set up was not great, but it's working.