Anyone Upgrade to Windows 11 Yet?

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Been running a while through windows insider or whatever it’s called. Hugest complaint is the taskbar not being able to show names of applications. The little logo is stupid as all get out.
 
Spartanfool said:
I'm a Microsoft beta tester and have been running W11 for almost a year. It's fast, stable, but annoying that MS has to change things (like the Start menu) for no reason other than to change things. A good build, but annoying that I have to learn the "in and outs" AGAIN.
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Yup. I have start11 downloaded right now just for the start menu.
 
On a whim, I decided to install PC Health Check and see about upgrading my Win10 desktop. As expected, it fails due to no TPM chip.

Interestingly, it also says that the processor is not supported. It's an i5-2500K CPU running at 3.3 GHz. I guess that this, too, will become a Linux box when Win10 goes out of support.
 
I had it on a VM for a while, my sister is using it on her "test" laptop and I did my son's laptop (gambling with the kids stuff! LOL!) to see his feedback. So far, nothing bad. It's not much of a step up from 10 really, a lot like Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 in many respects.
 
OVERKILL said:
It's not much of a step up from 10 really, a lot like Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 in many respects.
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That's how I feel about it, maybe a bit more of a step up though. Moving the start menu to the left and a few tweaks and it is really growing on me.
 
Nope, I see no need to, plus only one of my computers meet the specs of Windows 11.
Yes I know I can bypass some of the requirements, but it is stupid IMO. Yes I know it helps with some security measures, but why make it a "requirement" that can be bypassed (especially since the bypass could be disabled by MS at anytime, leaving you with a system you can't use).

Plus what happened to Windows 10 being the "last" Windows?

atikovi said:
Still use W7 on my desktop. Switched to 10 on a rarely used laptop and hate it. It's like Microsoft changes something just for the sake of change.
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So much software has these changes for no reason than to change things. Nothing wrong with how some things are sometimes, but get changed because someone or some group needs to justify their existence.
Windows 11 has many performance upgrades, but many of the style issues are done just because it is a "new" OS.

I still have 2 computers running Windows 7 (they are HTPC's using WMC, nothing matches the simplicity of it), and all my Windows 10 systems are running Classic Shell to make them look like Windows 7 (with one looking like XP).

I have a spare laptop I am about to try getting back into Linux with (either Mint or Ubuntu, I have used both a few times in the past).
 
I upgraded both of mine with no problems. I like 11, the start menu and taskbar are really more of app launchers now than anything else. I am surprised at the lack of customability of the taskbar but I have got used to it.
 
My 6 month old HP laptop came with 10, it popped up saying it was ready for 11. Only hitch I ran into was after updating, my fingerprint scanner that I signed in with didn't work, but soon the notifications came up that HP had a BIOS update. Once I did the BIOS update the fingerprint scanner worked again. Kind of like the window tiling and had to chuckle that it now has multiple desktops; something Linux has had for years.
 
My laptop HP (year 2018) and my Hp desktop (2013) are both unable to get Win 11. More Plastic for the landfill !
 
ZeeOSix said:
My Windows 10 computer says it's ready to upgrade to Windows 11 if I want to hit the "Upgrade" button. Not sure when I'll do it until I hear some feedback from some users.

Anyone here running Windiws 11 yet? If so, what do you think?
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In same boat as you. I am not ready until we hear more from folks who have made the switch.
 
I have multiple PCs running W10. Only one of them meets microsoft's requirements (a 2 year old ryzen 3700). Since these upgrades always come with arbitrary changes to the gui and navigation, I prefer to not have to think about which machine I'm on. If they supported my i5 Kaby Lake machine I'd consider it (after the initial issues are sorted out), but since they don't I won't.
 
blupupher said:
Nope, I see no need to, plus only one of my computers meet the specs of Windows 11.
Yes I know I can bypass some of the requirements, but it is stupid IMO. Yes I know it helps with some security measures, but why make it a "requirement" that can be bypassed (especially since the bypass could be disabled by MS at anytime, leaving you with a system you can't use).

Plus what happened to Windows 10 being the "last" Windows?


So much software has these changes for no reason than to change things. Nothing wrong with how some things are sometimes, but get changed because someone or some group needs to justify their existence.
Windows 11 has many performance upgrades, but many of the style issues are done just because it is a "new" OS.

I still have 2 computers running Windows 7 (they are HTPC's using WMC, nothing matches the simplicity of it), and all my Windows 10 systems are running Classic Shell to make them look like Windows 7 (with one looking like XP).

I have a spare laptop I am about to try getting back into Linux with (either Mint or Ubuntu, I have used both a few times in the past).
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Mine is the same way. Sad thing is Classic shell is no longer supported.
 
I had a 9 or 10 year old desktop that died a few months ago. It once was a Windows 7 machine taken to 10. I bought a new all-in-one to replace it. The version of Windows 10 that's on it, version 2004, will end security support in mid-December. MS has been pushing Windows 11 on me. MS will not make other longer life span versions of 10 available, leaving me only with the 11 as a choice. I think that there should be a choice.

My wife has a 5 year old laptop that was deemed not suitable for Windows 11. I'll have to check, but I believe she has a newer version of 10.
 
hank2 said:
I had a 9 or 10 year old desktop that died a few months ago. It once was a Windows 7 machine taken to 10. I bought a new all-in-one to replace it. The version of Windows 10 that's on it, version 2004, will end security support in mid-December. MS has been pushing Windows 11 on me. MS will not make other longer life span versions of 10 available, leaving me only with the 11 as a choice. I think that there should be a choice.

My wife has a 5 year old laptop that was deemed not suitable for Windows 11. I'll have to check, but I believe she has a newer version of 10.
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There are hacks to get Win 11 to run on older machines. You might want to do a search and see if they'll work for you or not.
 
hank2 said:
I had a 9 or 10 year old desktop that died a few months ago. It once was a Windows 7 machine taken to 10. I bought a new all-in-one to replace it. The version of Windows 10 that's on it, version 2004, will end security support in mid-December. MS has been pushing Windows 11 on me. MS will not make other longer life span versions of 10 available, leaving me only with the 11 as a choice.
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There are newer releases of Windows 10 since 2004, with 21H1 being the latest and only came out recently. Why haven't you upgraded to it?
 
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