I was naively telling myself "So many people hate 11, I doubt adoption has ticked up, and 10 will end up having extensions for support like 7 did, because no one wanted 8."
Then I saw the latest Steam Hardware survey. 11 is nearly even with 10 on installs. RIP.
Glad I've been cultivating a love for Linux the last several years and that I dual-boot my main box but run Linux alone on all my other boxes.
Because this is pushing me into using Linux alone unless there's a serious need for Windows.
Win 11 is going to push me to Linux for my main PC. My current PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements for Win 11 so I couldn't run it even if I wanted to.
The only question is if I'll need a separate windows machine for gaming.
I have never been a big fan of multiplayer competitive games. So thankfully I don't have to worry about Anti-Cheats, which continues to be the main thing holding back some games working on Linux. At this point most single player or cooperative multiplayer titles that don't require an anti-cheat work great with Valve's Proton.
Also, AMD GPUs work pretty great in Linux. I know they're not as popular as nVidia, but I've had very good functionality from them in Linux.
it depends on what games you play. Some online games will not work because of the anticheat, others will require some tweaking and some will not boot at all. This is not very common but it can happen. even more rare is the developer release a new update for a native game and that update contains some windows exclusive dependencies and the game doesn't start. But most of the times proton works perfectly, even with non-steam games.
Steam HW Survey is nice, but not everybody is a gamer. When you look at something more generic like Statcounter, in August Win 10 market share was at 71.94%, while Win 11 was at 23.17%, with 11's share being pretty much stagnating since May. There's still some hope
Imo it's going to be large companies and other software vendors that will determine whether or not Microsoft pushes through with this. And based on the software in use in my company, I think it's likely going to go ahead: specialized software that was explicitly stating that windows 11 was not supported last year, now says that it is.
New pc's also come with windows 11 and the users can work with them without major issues. This is unlike windows 8 were the manufacturers themselves returned to windows 7 after windows 8 had already been out some time.
i upgraded to windows 11 a few months ago, i cant say i massively regret it but its bad enough that the only thing pushing me away from ubuntu at this point is the absence of some software i use
What exactly is it that you don't like about Windows 11?
Basically I use Windows because of the Adobe suite not having a Linux version or (apparently) not working well in WINE
Or at least it didn't the last time I looked into it
Remember when Microsoft made the bold claim that Windows 10 would be the last OS and reassured us it would just be updated perpetually?
Like, no one believed them, but to stop supporting Windows 10 after a bold claim like that is just insulting.
you are morally obligated to pirate windows 10 ltsc
(if you must use windows)
Fun fact: Lenovo sells some laptops without Windows license too. The amount saved will depend on the laptop and region. Unfortunately this isn't available for all laptops.
Example:
Compatibility image linkIf you're just buying a laptop/desktop normally, you're paying this without realizing it.
In this case, it's 22.5% of the price.Wish more did that tbh.....esp as a tech person who MS and apple ran off with choices they made. Plus I like having more freedom on shiz to customize things more without risk it'll break that easily(without a major yearly update withstanding but still not as often as windows....)
Skimmed the US site. Unless I’m dumb, there’s no Non-Windows Key options on any products other than a Linux-variant that they currently up charge for.
What a shithole company.
There are people selling oem keys on eBay for $5-$7. It’s too easy to buy a “legit” key at this point.
kid named Microsoft Activation Scripts:
May I suggest you try to warm up to Linux
Only my main machine runs Windows, my server and my machine running my 3D printers are running Linux (though different flavors)
My main machine runs Windows primarily due to the Adobe Suite which doesn't work well with WINE
I just rolled back to Win 10 after finally succumbing to the frustration of Win11 running like frozen molasses.
With a side bonus of Linux Mint 21.2 for good measure. Forgot just how much I enjoyed Mint!
Mint has been such a smooth experience for me, as well! I'm glad that Linux gaming is improving, as its one of the few things keeping me using windows. Manjaro is supposedly very beginner friendly, as well.
Interesting 🤔. It's basically Windows 10 with some change here and there, in performance I personally didn't notice a difference, maybe it is more noticeable in older computers or something.
11 is ok, but out of the box it needs more tweaks than 10 and they have been saying they'd bring back folder previews for YEARS and they haven't done it
The only feature that I'm missing from earlier Windows' is the desktop peek on hovering the lower right corner, otherwise GUI-wise it doesn't make too much of a difference to Windows 10. Or maybe I've just been using 11 for so long that I forgot?
The GUI is annoying in 11, but that's really not the issue for most people. It's the constant barrage of "USE FUCKING EDGE" over and over and over, the treating the operating system like it's an advertising platform, not an operating system. It's the ever-increasing spyware, it's that they never learned that nobody liked them constantly re-installing Skype and Candy Crush even when you've uninstalled them in Windows 10 that they kept the same bullshit in 11.
My personal favorite to be pissed off about is that you're literally not allowed to make a local account in any normal way in Windows 11, they force you to use a Microsoft Account unless you know a bunch of PowerShell commands to interrupt the install process and force it to allow you to make a local account. Then, after you've already jumped through technical hoops to get a local account, Microsoft decides that the best thing to do is advertise at you again about how you shouldn't be using a local account and you should consider switching to a Microsoft account! Like fuck me, the anti-consumer "It's Microsoft's operating system and you just live here" has been kicked up to obscene levels in 11.
Those are the issues, the GUI is (for the most part) fine. Although I will say every time I use 11 I'm confused about where to find "copy" and "paste" because they decided to drop words for iconography. Like, I've never seen these icons before, how am I supposed to know that's the new "cut," "copy," and "paste?" It's absurd. However, I can manage to live with that, or change it in RegEdit if I really hate it that much. The GUI is annoying but the least shitty of the Windows 11 crimes.
Can you not still do that? I feel like I can still do that. Maybe it's an addon I have.
Can someone get me a link to that image? I’m going to own my first PC in a few days (my CS major requires a lot of stuff that only works on Windows) and I want to use it as a desktop background
Good news is I was able to find the source image by looking up the OP in the image on Twitter
Bad news is the image is 480p
Good news again, it would probably be funnier to edit it into the proportions of the normal W10 wallpaper, so the low resolution could be worked around in a funnier way
I pretty much forgot Clone High existed for a while there, great show
