*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***
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Can't say I've noticed any issues so far which is very surprising. I've installed all my drivers and applications, setup all my works stuff, teams, odfb, VPNs etc etc. Fingers crossed.
The only niggle (I think), is that google drive backup and sync doesn't pull down from quick links. I'm sure you could navigate from the left hand side but now it's just a link. Unless on windows 10 it integrated within the explorer shell and now it doesn't.
My surface dock 2 still plays up after each reboot, but it did that on windows 10.
The start menu and widgets are significantly better! but whilst better, I wish they'd put the widgets into the notifications panel instead.
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Please tell me your not using it as a main OS.
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I would happily move to Ubuntu if I could get yuris revenge command and conquer working in it.
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should be still windows 10 then just with a new theme.
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Main OS as in it's on one of my laptops. I'm not dual booting.
Its a step in the right direction, certainly looks wise imo, I'm mainly a linux user but I took a risk and did an upgrade on my win10 machine to win11, it took ages but it worked which surprised me, it runs just great btw for anyone wondering and its smooth (nice animations) and fast.
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Do you even know when the time bomb runs out? These versions won’t work forever.
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No timebomb on the leak
I find that very bizarre that Microsoft would have this out without a time bomb. I really wouldn’t trust it.
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Might have to try it looks like it's working with snap and wine;
mmtrt/cncra2yr: C&C: Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge soaked in WINE and Snapped for Linux (github.com)
Yeah sadly it just isn't realistic. I'm pretty familiar with Linux - used to work for a game service provider so lots of experience with building distributions from scratch, creating webmin/usermin systems, etc. etc. even built a heavily customised version of Debian with Fluxbox at one point (lots of shell programming, etc.) and have a couple of Ubuntu installs for various tasks even now.
I'd leave Windows 10 behind like a shot for Linux if it was a viable alternative.
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Might give this a go at the weekend.ppp
Yeah I would happily run Linux if it ran my entire game collection as well or better than Windows... but it doesn't.
Yeah its getting better and yeah you can have dual boot etc but why bother? 10 years ago I would have loved the hassle but now defo cba so it's Windows for the foreseeable future
On the Win11 side I installed the iso that is kicking about in a VM earlier and I ABSOLUTELY HATE the huge full screen centre app draw, its offensive on a very large monitor. There are options in taskbar settings to change the off-set to left or right but you can't change it without activating Windows so not sure what it actually looks like when you do that.
Yeah its getting better and yeah you can have dual boot etc but why bother? 10 years ago I would have loved the hassle but now defo cba so it's Windows for the foreseeable future
On the Win11 side I installed the iso that is kicking about in a VM earlier and I ABSOLUTELY HATE the huge full screen centre app draw, its offensive on a very large monitor. There are options in taskbar settings to change the off-set to left or right but you can't change it without activating Windows so not sure what it actually looks like when you do that.
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I can't move to ubuntu, something I need doesn't work in it.
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I cant wait for Gnome 40 on Ubuntu.
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So win 10 nvidia drivers work on win 11?
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You really don't want to be using this as a main OS. Anything could happen.