About 1 year ago, there was a form topic asking: Will You Upgrade to Windows 11?. The one year anniversary of Windows 11 has just gone past.
There are also requirements for TPM 2.0 which means Windows 11 is not compatible with any older PCs. This however, has not stopped sellers of refurbed machines selling them with Windows 11.
New Lenovo laptops still come with Win10 pro installed by default under downgrade rights.
Suits me fine, I'll probably begrudgingly update to 11 when it comes installed.
Gave W11 a crack for a look see and no reason to go back to W10.
Has been very stable for me. No crashes and runs the programs I use without issue.
I run a super clean desktop. No icons, disable recycle bin icon and autohide taskbar. Wouldn't even know I was using W11 to be honest.
Until you open yhe settings. Not that I am complaining.
I voted yes in the original poll but I'm still on Windows 10.
I still don't really see any compelling reason to update.
It also requires a trip into BIOS to enable the TPM.
none of my pcs are compatible for some reason.
I know the reason. They are old.
I have a Ryzen 5 5600G which was released 4/21
My work laptop is an 11 series i7? I’d have to double check
it's because it doesn't have the TPM crap that they want you to use. the PCs are compatible in every respect, it's just that microsoft are tools.
@[Deactivated]: There used to be a shift+F10 solution to that problem but I think they broke that as well.
Ryzen system likely needs the TPM setting in BIOS changed and then will allow an upgrade.
5600g is supported - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/mi…
@ihfree: Soooo if you were a win11 programmer. Wouldn’t you check the motherboard with known vendors to see if it had tpm , then say “your device is compatible however you have to enable tpm”?
Or have a displayed list of checkboxes explaining why your of isn’t compatible?
Just seems counter intuitive to want people to upgrade, then give them a yes/no answer
I have a Ryzen 5600G as well, I had to run a fancy switcharoo converter thingo from BIOS to UEFI before my machine qualified as being able to be upgraded.
I tried it, and didn't like it. On top of that it had issues. This was on a work computer. I checked if it was an isolated case, and nope; heaps of people don't like it, and some of them don't have issues. So it's back to my original comment then:
1 - 1990 - Crap - Windows 3 (end of Intel's 808xx range)
2 - 1992 - Nice - Windows 3.11 (start of Intel's Pentium)
3 - 1995 - Crap - Windows 95
4 - 1998 - Nice - Windows 98 (se)
5 - 2000 - Crap - WindowsME
6 - 2003 - Nice - Windows XP (sp2)
7 - 2006 - Crap - Windows Vista
8 - 2009 - Nice - Windows 7
9 - 2013 - Crap - Windows 8
10- 2015 - Nice - Windows 10
11- 2021 - Crap - Windows 11
12 - 2024 - Nice ??? - Windows 12
What issues? So far across half a dozen different machines I have none.
1 work laptop is on 11, 2 are on 10 still. Of my home machines it's about 50/50.
I have a Surface Pro 3 that was glitching out and wouldn't power on for 6 months. When it did finally come back to me I put 11 on it and it's been pretty solid since. Have to keep the power settings on 'best battery' for all scenarios though.
No, and I am not going to. Every iteration since Vista / 7 has been a direct downgrade, especially for user customisation (non-cosmetic). If some games hadn't required it, I wouldn't have downgraded to 10.
It helps that my PC is not technically "capable" of running 11, because I don't have an intel CPU, nor the TPM crap that comes with one (certain models).
I would have moved to linux if it wasn't such a pain in the arse to run games on it.
Hackintosh?
OOI, what CPU do you have?
Still on 10, but may move to 11 when I upgrade my PC again sometime in the next year or so (will upgrade every part other than maybe PSU). I'd assume 11 will be stable and widely supported by then (if not already). My current CPU actually does meet the requirement if I was to upgrade now, but only just (i7 8700).
I updated my win Desktop 10 PC to Win 11 seven months ago first thing i noticed was an increase in performance. It's been very stable & all my programs worked fine even older ones.
My PC was purchased in Dec 2019 & had the hardware requirements.
My suggestion to anyone interested in trying it is to image your PC first with Macrium Reflect because Windows will only let you roll back to win 10 for a short period of time.
Work laptop is Win 11, home PC is 10.
11 is fine once you change all of the layout settings to be the same as 10, but I won't be upgrading my home PC until I have to.
Wasn't it Microsoft that told us that Windows 10 was the last Windows we'd ever need? Are they now saying they were wrong then? Or are they wrong now?
I thought so too.
Like "640KB of memory ought to be enough for anybody"
Do either Windows 10 or Windows 11 deliver any significant benefit for ordinary users that Windows 7 didn't? They only created Windows 10 because they'd made such a mess of Windows 8, and everyone was staying on Windows 7. And for the wife of me I can't figure out why they created Windows 11. Windows 7 was THE big leap forward. Windows 10 could have been called Windows 7.1, and Windows 11 called Windows 7.11, for all the additional benefit they provide.
And for the wife of me I can't figure out why they created Windows 11.
Simple.
$$$
W11 work
W10 home
W11 is fine. Biggest issue I have is grouped taskbar. Hate it for productivity. Easily fixed for $5 but honestly, there was a regedit that restored it but MS purposely made that tweak not work rather than actually implement it. P%#$@s
I have it on my personal computer, kinda went, why not?
It's OK, it's causing bit of an issue with AMD Adrenaline for some reason, but not enough for me to go, time to go back to Windows 10.
The wife does WFH a couple of days per week, I'm worried upgrading will break something - it's just not worth the heartache for me if it does.
No but i'll upgrade when I am forced to.
I miss XP days, well… I miss that era in general.
Nope. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Win 10 works solidly for me so don't see any reason to personally.
Work hasn't updated our laptops to Win 11 either for some reason. Even new ones. Again Win 10 works well.