Windows 10 or 11?

Zeebedy

Zeebedy

Zeebedy

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Bit out of touch with the software..

I have a flash drive with windows 11 and one with windows 10.

is it worth going to 11? If so is it easy enough to setup, when I had my computer last year, it was a big faff trying to get the compatibility going! :mad:
 
Microsoft are still experimenting with W11 so you're more likely to come across bugs and changes, IMO that's a good thing as they've shifted focus away from W10 making it less likely to encounter the afore mentioned bugs and changes.

Personally I'm not going to use W11 until W10 reaches EOL but you pay your money and you take your choices, if you want something a bit less prone to bugs and changes go with W10, if you don't mind or even like new things being added then go with W11. They're both pretty much the same under the hood so you won't find much, if any, difference in stability/performance.
 
Oh IDK, i love spending my time learning how some new thing works, it's just I'd prefer to do that when it's a means to an end and not because someone's done something that frustrates me. :)
 
Dunno I find 11 even more annoying than 10 - there are too many places where they've removed useful menu options and stuff like that where you just end up having to Google how to make the OS useful again...

Very frustrating as in concept Windows 11 is brilliant as the approach to a modern OS, in execution it is beyond abysmal.

I still can't get over the fact something(s) came along where I'd rather use Windows 8 - if you told me that would happen a few years back...
 
Rroff said:
Dunno I find 11 even more annoying than 10 - there are too many places where they've removed useful menu options and stuff like that where you just end up having to Google how to make the OS useful again...

Very frustrating as in concept Windows 11 is brilliant as the approach to a modern OS, in execution it is beyond abysmal.

I still can't get over the fact something(s) came along where I'd rather use Windows 8 - if you told me that would happen a few years back...
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Nothing changes, happens with every OS.
 
Glanza said:
11 is fine these days, but people don't like change just like trying to get people off 7 to 10.
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I'm honestly gob smacked that anyone would ever associate "fine" with Windows 10 or 11. It shows how much people's standards have been brought down over the years (or just haven't experienced actual high quality software). The list of quality of life changes which would vastly improve 10/11 is endless. Microsoft can't even create a repository/store system people would willingly embrace which is one of the bigger advantages of a modern OS for deploying software, etc.

(For the record I have a laptop with a Windows 10 and 11 dual boot on the left of my main monitor, another laptop with Windows 7 to the left of that, Windows 10 system on the right (4K HDR display), and 10 and 7 dual boot on my main desktop - I'd stick 7 on all of them though if it was feasible - not because I like 7 - it has many inadequacies of its but they don't actively frustrate me in day to day usage).
 
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Glanza said:
11 is fine these days, but people don't like change just like trying to get people off 7 to 10.
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It's not fine, if it forces you to change your 25 year+ workflow (no option to ungroup taskbar buttons).
Installing third party software to restore this, also isn't really a solution.

Settings is also still a mess, and is again a step backward in not being able to look at more than 1 section at a time (as it's now single window, single tab at a time, compared to separate control panel applets that could be opened indepentently)

Even daft things like clicking the systray clock aren't consistent if you have more than 1 screen.

Also having no control over Windows Updates (applies to Windows 10 as well), still isn't "fine". I've got a couple of PCs at work still running Windows 7, as they are active 24/7, and having them reboot randomly is not an option.
 
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Armageus said:
Also having no control over Windows Updates (applies to Windows 10 as well), still isn't "fine". I've got a couple of PCs at work still running Windows 7, as they are active 24/7, and having them reboot randomly is not an option.
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A mixture of Shutup10 and Windows Update Blocker sort of stops the reboot/updates behaviour though it still isn't a 100% fix - but then you are relying on 3rd party software and compatibility between that software and future Windows updates :s

We've rolled loads of machines at work back to 7 or some flavour of *nix due to those kind of problems - latest one an (apparently) unintended update/restart forced by SCCM on a live production system.
 
hornetstinger said:
I've used the start11 util to get back Windows 10 control panel, also I don't like they've removed the right click options, how do you expand it like Windows 10 ?
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Type control panel in search it’s there already.

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GaryTheSnail said:
Type control panel in search it’s there already.
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Nah I mean this, the first image. When you right click on windows explorer

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Hello! Sorry if this has been asked before please point to appropriate thread. I have recently upgrade Windows 10 Pro 64-bit from v1809 to v1903, although I thing my problem has nothing to do with the upgrade which was completed successfully. I noticed th
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I have a usb with W11 on it from about a year ago. Was going to use that. Will probably need like a terabyte of updates though :cry:

is that ok? Or am I best getting a more up to date installer?
 
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