Anyone here using Windows 11?

We are not impressed. Slow. Continuously wants to upgrade and cannot make a decent cup of coffee.

My MacBook Pro makes great coffee. And it’s 8 years old.




Just sayin’

My PC is not able to be upgraded. I don't really care. Enough problems updating WIN 10.

Did I ever tell anyone here that I hate win 10?

I finally figured that it self destructs on the 15th of every month, only to ask me to set up windows, along with that it closes any programs I have open. All hail the mighty MS.

From what I've seen of win 11, no thanks. It looks worse.

I have it on my gaming PC, which is connected to a TV in the media room. The new interface is actually pretty good for that use, and with my current setup (admittedly not a cheap one) it is very responsive and runs games very fast, which is the sole thing I need from it.

My computer has been asking me to upgrade and today my home page has an upgrade now window that I can't delete. I'm still able to open other windows that work, but it's probably a matter of time before I wont have a choice.

I'd pay good money to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7

My wife let Microsoft do what she thought was a 10 update but was actually the 11 installation. Hilarity ensued as we tried to find the power button. (Click Settings. It's the insignificant looking thing on the lower right.) Why they think making things more complicated is an improvement baffles me; but she says that, after a restart, it is otherwise ok so far. I'm in no hurry to try it myself.

I plan on staying away from Win 11 as long as I can and as long as Win 10 is still supported.

Frankly, if it wasn't that I needed Powerpoint for building screen projections for church, Windows would be banished from the house. The online Microsoft Office just doesn't have all the features I require. The OS is nice enough, but I really hate the Microsoft direction of "integrating" the OS, Office and a bunch of other services with Microsoft account. Cell phones aren't much different.

One of my biggest gripes is updating. I have 2 church laptops that get shutdown when not being used. Every time I boot them, Windows Update pretty much takes over the machine, making it useless for other work. The other problem with updates is how long they take. When I update my linux machines, a <10 minute update is the norm. I have been locked out of Windows machines for an hour while they update. Granted, some of these machines are older or not very powerful, but why do updates take so long?

I upgraded on my laptop but my Desktop PC running Windows 10 doesn't qualify to run windows 11 and when they stop backing Windows 10 I will be forced to either build another PC or get a Mac Desktop PC. After seeing my daughter's new iMac with 6 built in speakers that has phenomenol sound and extremely fast with the new Apple processor my money will probably go in that direction. Right now it is my understanding Windows 11 is beta and we are the guinny pigs who will ferrot out the issues for them. I had 2 minor issues (one being Shift/printscreen doesn't work yet and the other Outlook hung twice. Microsoft showed me to run task manager and stop Outlook then reboot and all ok. No issues since. Having said that, my neice is a power user and Windows 11 is not up to the task of things she does. For most it is ok but I say why upgrade until you have to which on my Desktop PC is 2025 but I am hoping to get an iMac in early 2022. The monitor is very high def. Computer is basically in the monitor so it takes up little realistate and uses a very nice tactile feeling ultra thin wireless keyboard and mouse.

I bought a new HP laptop for our church that came with W 11. My take is that there’s not that big a difference between 10 and 11. One annoying “feature” is cutting/pasting. When you right click you have to click on “more options” for the paste command. Cntl V of course works but the additional mouse click bugs me. And then there’s all the stoopid notifications. I think that’s behind a lot of the OS upgrades nowadays.

As others have said, I think Windows peaked with 7. Somehow 11 got installed on my computer one night a while ago, without any involvement on my part. By that time, I had seen enough of it on my wife's computer to know how to deal with a lot of the extra steps and new locations annoyance; and that it was otherwise not too different from 10, so I let it be.

I just had my Win7 machine die and got an all-in-one (looks like a screen only because the processor, cd, etc. are all built in) so its one power plug and a wireless keyboard and mouse. I dreaded the Win11 and all the bad I heard but this one is GREAT. Fast (also has a SS HD) with no hiccups whatsoever. Plenty of input ports on the back (yes even Ethernet)

I think upgrading brings along artifacts and crap from the old OS which confuses the system (conflicts). This is done to preserve the programs so you dont have to reload them. But those config files in those programs are used to the old OS.
 
Its also very iPad and Android like with apps, bluetooth (for my wireless headset) and pinch and zoom touch screen
BJs Warehouse $600 HP, much bigger screen (23") and small footprint (all-in-one and wireless kybd and mouse). 

Bottom Line- I think a fresh install with robust enough HW (RAM, processor, HD) would get rid of these troubles many are seeing. BUT you have to reinstall all your programs (or get a program moving sw package which I dont know if they have issues)

My biggest cost concern was MS office but I got a home & Office Lifetime license for $50. This gives the newest versions always, free updates and is a huge cost saver. Well worth it to have the latest MS Office with the latest OS since they were designed to work together.

YMMV