Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling
Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling
It's not winning the hearts and minds.
I was forced to upgrade to Windows 11 on my work computer. Only thing I noticed is that all the settings have arbitrarily been moved around to different locations. Absolutely no tangible benefit to upgrading whatsoever.
Still, I decided I would upgrade my home computer as well anyway. Really enjoying my upgrade from Windows 10 to Pop! OS.
Absolutely no tangible benefit to upgrading whatsoever.
Not so fast! Here's a list of the improvements I have experienced on my work PC:
- everything is visually a bit round, but not too round
- pop-ups everywhere all the time
- random ding sounds, even when I mute the sound. Ding!
- want to switch off? Haha you mean reboot surely? No? Reboot anyway
- Teams is still shit
- absolutely unusable context menus when right-clicking on an icon (SVN commands on page 2)
- start menu is now owned by the Daily Mail given the quality of content and the topics listed. Yes I was actually looking for Ariana Grande's latest romance, thank you
"But we're adding more ads, spying on you more, and removing more tools. We're trying everything, why don't people like it?
Seriously. I installed windows 11 for a new build and couldn't get my sound working for the life of me. Super quiet sound the entire time even though I had my volume at 100%
After reading a gaggle of pages of people complaining on the same issue and the OH SO HELPFUL advice of "just replace every piece of hardware in your pc and reboot" after I just built the thing, I find out it's widespread problem with no fix and the sound settings are harder to get to and to change and TRY OUR AI. Did you know it's Harry trumans birthday? And the lot
Installed windows 10, have regular volume that sounds appropriately loud when I put it at 50% volume or higher. What good is am OS if it breaks functionality ?
A normal person doesn't care if they're being spied. I think it's because windows 11 feels like the same shit as windows 10. They are actually the same crap to me, I don't even know what's the advantage in upgrading to windows 11
I've moved 3 PCs from WIndows 10 to Mint in the past year.
I literally can't upgrade because of their new hardware requirements. My PC is plenty powerful for the tasks I need, what am I supposed to do, buy another one?
I know this is cliche but try Linux when support is dropped, at least if your workflow permits it. Anything is better than sending a perfectly good system to the landfill..
The shitty thing is that I have everything in my house just working right now. Media server, photo backup, drive pooling, snapraid, kids' PCs, etc etc.
Can I do all this on Linux? Of course. Would it arguably be better on Linux? Yeah probably. Do I want to invest God knows how many hours/days/weeks switching things over, debugging issues on all my devices trawling through forums to find fixes...? Hell no.
Same here, I was like "wtf do you mean my hardware isn't compatible? It's 10 times faster than trashy laptops that come with Windows 11". What I realized was I didn't have some DRM shit turned on in my BIOS.
I know this isnt popular on here, but its because Windows 10 is pretty damn great.
For damn near EVERYTHING 99.99% of users do 99.99% of the time it just fucking works.
Windows10 is great, it just kinda works...but it's still absolute shit. The amount of garbage that's forced and still existing that you need to disable is absurd.
Tell me how to disable onedrive and make it stop coming back
Windows 10 was wildly unpopular at release. I didn't upgrade until I absolutely had to. Now windows 10 is, in my opinion, a very good OS.
I still don't understand the numbering system. They could ditch the numbers and just call it windows at this point. 15 years ago it made sense. Now? Not so much.
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So they kept the pattern huh? 1 good OS release, then 1 shit OS release that everyone avoids until the next good OS release.
Looking forward to windows 12. But if that turns out to be shit also then at least we have Linux.
GOOD. Switch to Linux!