*** Microsoft Windows 11 Thoughts & Discussion Thread ***

[Deleted member 77746]

Do t bother testing it in a VM you won’t get quite the experience with it. If you have a second disk spare just get it installed but remove all your other disks before installing it and have a play.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Words fail me, not only don't you know what sort of VM I'm using but even the worst VM wouldn't change any of the issues I've just highlighted.

They just minor things what you fetched up. Install it and then file a report to Microsoft for changes.

You just been fussy.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

If Apple or Google do a design overhaul, it's top to bottom. If MS do it, it takes 4 years, and there's still bits left of the last 5 design languages that didn't get completely finished

This is why I like Apple stuff but you pay a premium.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Again words fail me, if you think things like that are just minor things and someone being fussy, especially after you made the bizarre claim that you don't quiet get the 'experience' with it unless you do a bare metal install, is frankly baffling. Knowing what's happened and consistency is about as basic as it gets, if you saw something different depending on what car window you looked out of you'd be unable to drive the car because you wouldn't know what view is showing you what reality actual is.

Also do you really think after more than a year that no one has ever filed a report with Microsoft about these things and that I'm the only person to have noticed them?

Or are you just trolling?

Stay with windows 10 then and don’t move to 11.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Oh I'll do that then, forever.

They might fix the issues by the time you move over lol.

Alternatively you have apple or Linux. Hell sone people on these forums won’t move from windows 7!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

So constructive, someone explains a problem they're having and your input seems to amount to so what, move on, it's minor, they're making a fuss, and generally trying to downplay and belittle their issues.

At least we've identified that you're trolling.

What you expect anyone to do about it?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

macOS is a pretty horrible experience though, at least when compared with Windows or the main Linux DEs.

Windows will always have the same foundation because it has to support a ton of legacy programs. The only way around it would be for Microsoft to spin off a Windows 2.0 that only supports modern systems and programs.

MacOS is a horrible experience? WUT?!?!?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

All they need to do is rewrite the codebase so it's more modular, so they can remove something like IE without it causing problems for other components in the OS. If it was more modular they could introduce new features and/or GUI elements and if they didn't workout they could be removed without causing problems.

If you haven't noticed a lot of apps come from the app store now so they are removing a lot of built in stuff over the favour of apps. They are doing what Apple has done for a decade now.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Have you fellas tried Windows 95 recently? I have.. absolutely blown away, a cohesive interface, they clearly thought about every element of UX, it's so intuitive and perfect..
It's a difficult problem though, how do you start again instead of piling new layers on old when you need to maintain backwards compatibility? Perhaps you can't.

Stick an SSD under the hood and it's faster than windows 11, doesn't have the security though.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Oh for sure, they have some very skilled engineers, unfortunately that's largely been ruined by incompetent management

... and you know this how? Do you work for Microsoft?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I've found what for me is a showstopper issue with Windows 11. After Christmas I'll be setting up my own DHCP server which should resolve the issue, but essentially in Windows 11 I cannot get into the DNS tab of the Advanced TCP Settings page to set up a DNS suffix. This means that a Windows 11 box will not connect to my Windows Server Essentials server.

That's odd. I can.



Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections
Right Click > Properties > Double click (TCP/IPv4) > Advanced > DNS

 

[Deleted member 77746]

No i don't work for Microsoft, do you?

I would never work for them, ever.

i would've thought working for them would instantly disqualify anyone from making comment, you're hardly about to bite the hand that feeds you and you tend to be indoctrinated into the culture of the organisation.

Only if you get caught.

From using my ability to read things. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

Where are them articles getting their info from you posted.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

If only you could read.

e: Unrelated to your trolling efforts, but can anyone replicate this? Go to computer management (right click start), select something like services, go to view > customise, take the check mark out of action pane, click OK, and now try to bring up the properties by either dbl clicking on a service or selecting properties.

Does MMC crash? (does for me on 22H2 22621.963)

Nope doesn't crash for me.

PS. I'm not trolling.

If only you could read.

I can read but I'm not sitting reading dumb articles.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

They're putting so much effort into making every interface "user friendly", but it's not like people haven't been using Windows for years. The UI changes usually offer little-to-no useful info and you end up digging through the old Control Panel.

They better not take godmode away.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I'm clinging onto windows 10 and retrograded it with PowerShell to function like 98/XP which I am sure so many others have done.

Once they stop supporting it they will force people to move. Devs move to new platforms and eventually leave the old ones behind.

If people don't move then they are going to be left behind in terms of security and there will be holes all over the place in the OS.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

windows 10 support ends in 2025 and windows 12 is expected in 2024, so you might be able to skip windows 11, not that that necessarily solves the issues but it could take us back to the old "good, bad, good, bad" release schedule.

That's a valid point.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

This is all very familiar... But why? I'm trying to create a Vista in my mind of what this reminds "Me" of...

No where near as bad as what Vista was. jeees.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Idk man Vista was bad and all but now that 11 is here... At least with vista everything still sort of followed suite with XP. 11 is just God awful.

11 is like 10 with a new interface, that's all.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I disagree - Vista didn't force me to change my workflow

Windows 11 doesn't change workflow that much from a useability point of view IMO.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Requiring Microsoft accounts does. Completely unnecessary for the majority of people.

At the end of the day it's just a username and password login, doesn't change things in the grand scheme of things.