Have you tried Windows 11 yet?

I have Windows 11. My computer crashes once a week. I don’t know if It is the O.S. or a problem with the rest of the computer that I bought from Dell two years ago.

Other than that I haven’t noticed any improvement from earlier operating systems.

I’ve been using Windows 11 for months. The differences from 10 are minimal to me, a simple user. There was absolutely no drama when I switched.

Yet? I’m still avoiding Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 as much as possible.

I have Windows 11. It’s fine. No issues with it at all.

@Zaku may I ask why? Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t you more vulnerable using older OS?

@Zaku I understand. I found that the 8 series sucked big time. I stayed with XP until it became dangerous to use and Microsoft stopped supporting it. I’ve had no problems with 10 that is until Microsoft started insisting that I switch to 11. I’m just now getting really comfortable with 10 and not ready to take the leap of faith for 11 just yet. I’m just trying to learn what to expect if I suddenly find that I’ve switched without meaning to. The only input that I’ve had is from my really good friend. She loves 11 but her hubby hates it. He’s the type that doesn’t like change so I can’t tell if 11 is that bad or if he just wasn’t ready and fighting it. Knowledge is power

EDIT: I’ve read that once switching to 11 that you’re locked in using Edge as your browser. Anybody know if this is a fact? I’m a Firefox baby and I don’t like Edge so that’s a big drawback in my eyes

Yes, installed it last fall. One machine is W11 all the way. My laptop – I rolled it back to W10 because W11 sucked so much.

@SEKA – wrong – I use Chrome 99.99% of the time. They screwed around with certain internal pages and force them to go to Edge, but all other browsers are still supported.

The worst thing about W11 is that the really screwed around with the Taskbar and start menu horribly. Fortunatley, there are third party apps that can revert Taskbar to what it was earlier.

@SEKA You do not have to use Edge for your browser. I had no trouble making Chrome my browser.

@SergeantQueen Because my Windows 7 machine is still working very well, and I detest many things about Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11, including:

* The automatic update schedule that one is not allowed to turn off and handle manually.
* The huge number of updates.
* The crap the updates tend to do – resetting unwanted default settings, setting up unwanted processes, changing things I don’t want changed, breaking things that were working, not installing correctly and needing to be researched to figure out how to install them, etc.
* The updates requiring my computer to be restarted, meaning I either lose work in progress, or need to spend considerable time resetting my system to the state I do my work in, and the interruption of the processes I keep running all the time. Windows possibly rebooting for updates every day is a pain, and destroys my ability to say, leave the house for more than one night without a chance my software will get shut down by Windows updates – which is not acceptable.
* The huge amount of data sent to Microsoft, that one would need to hunt down and change, somehow, if allowed.
* The stupid mobile-device-based menus.
* The offering of lots of crap programs I don’t want on those menus, which I’d need to spend at least several hours trying to exterminate and replace with things I do care about.
* The boot “security” features that make it a bitch to dual-boot Linux (I’ve done it on other Win 8 machines – it was very annoying).
* The other random BS Microsoft changes to serve its purposes in ways I don’t like, because it has a general strategy that it can try to evolve things to suit its purposes, in the direction of MS owning and controlling what your computer does, rather than the user. There are many examples of little things like this.
* I don’t want to have to deal with any issues with software I like, not being compatible or having problems with Win 11.
* I hate some of the other new Windows “security” measures that are thicker on later versions of Windows.

“Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t you more vulnerable using older OS?”
– I might be if I were a sloppy user – someone who clicks on email attachments from strangers or clueless people, or who visits web pages that try to hack your computer, or installs software laden with malware. The last time I ran into something like that was about eight years ago, and it was on a current and updated version of Windows.
– Also, while yes in theory there may be some unpatched vulnerabilities on Win 7 that are patched on more recent versions of Windows, because of how Windows is always chock full of “enabling technologies” and bleeding edge patches that like to reset systems to default settings, and are so complex, the newer versions generally have plenty of vulnerabilities and attract attention from hackers.

@Zaku Windows 10 and 11 are utterly different than 8. Not comparable in any way.

I’m not a developer. I’m an educated user. I work for a large government agency with a very good IT department. They love 10. We haven’t switched to 11 yet, because they’re working on an important piece of proprietary software that is vital to our operations to get it ready. As soon as that’s done, they’ll switch us to 11.

I never had a reason to complain about an update with 10 in the 5 years I used it. I’ve had no problems with the 11 updates. If I’m in the middle of something, I delay the update a few hours. It is a complete non-event. I’ve never once on any iteration of Windows lost a file due to an update.

You do you. I used 10 more than 5 years without complaint, and I have no complaints about 11 so far. But you do you.

No. I have a windows ten laptop.

I updated my 1 year old laptop to Win11. No real difference that I can tell. Same for my wife’s 2 year old laptop.

I got sandbagged by Windows earlier today. It wouldn’t let me through the gate unless I definitively rejected or accepted W 11. I thought about it and then told it to go ahead. It promised to download and then let me know when it was ready to install. Download seemed to take a long time, bogging the system down. There’s been no news since. Finally I decided to go ahead with my usual applications. Windows hasn’t uttered a peep since. WTH?