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I had to jump onto a win 10 machine for a couple of weeks. Came back to my new gaming rig and I have to say... I HATE windows 11. The right click menu sucks, the task bar is shit even if it is aligned to the correct location. Actually looking back, I think the last windows I liked was 7.
When I use 11 I feel like I'm using my left hand. That's the best way I can explain it.
I'm a leftie and offended.
Believe it or not I can't use a mouse with my left hand.
I am ambi with a mouse after retraining myself from RSI. I get really shat at computer training rooms that have everything tied down to the right.
YES!!!! That's exactly it isn't it! I just aligned the start to the left of the screen and my brain is just throwing co-ordination errors.
And now they've put ads in the start menu. If I ever have to use 11 I'm going to use one of those ISO stripper apps to debloat the fuck out of the install.
I can't say I have strong opinions on different Windows systems, but I did notice the Finnish Eurovision entry is Windows95man.
I swapped to Linux last year and haven't regretted it at all. I can even style it to look like my favourite older windows designs. My laptop has vista style desktop widgets, which are just as useless as they were back then but I love them.
This is the way 🙂
I might end up doing that. It works really well for basics. Unfortunately it limits the options for games and I'm not hugely good at doing any further stuff with commands
Nah, gaming these days is on par with Windows. The steam deck runs Linux so valve put a lot of work into games in steam just working.
That sounds promising. I just saw fewer options. Maybe it's time to head over to Linux Gaming and see what they have there
I’ll probably end up doing this on the laptop, but on the gaming rig sadly it’s just not an option.
Isn't steam OS still a thing?
It's totally an option. Valves steam deck runs arch Linux and steam proton usually works out of the box to make games run.
I still haven't used Windows 11. Given that I'm an IT nerd with 25+ years in the industry, and essentially live and breathe this stuff, it's a little remarkable. My computer's hardware doesn't officially support it, and while I've gone through the checks I need to disable in order to upgrade, I haven't seen what Windows 11 offers that makes me want to upgrade.
Other than turning the Start Bar into something more like the MacOS/Gnome dock, I haven't really seen anything the new version brings to the consumer. It's more of the same, but give us money please.
It won't even let me upgrade to 11 on my old desktop. Why is everything requiring more and more power... cough Planned obsolescence
Edit: Huh. I thought my old computer was just a bit crap (it is) but someone more knowledgeable is also complaining https://aussie.zone/comment/1904977
I feel like I'm the only person who hasn't had issues with win11. My crappy laptop apparently isn't so crappy since it had no issues with win 11 and in fact got the update about 7 months before my main PC. During the transition, I was working with manually renaming a lot of old trip photos so it did break my workflow since the rename button was removed from the context menu (then later added back as an icon rather than a text box called rename), but then I discovered I could just single click the title of a file and it would rename in less time than it took to rename through the win 10 context menu anyways.
And before I get comments, I have used various Linux distros and also MacOS for periods of time, including as primaries. I'm not a big fan of windows, if I had more money, I'd probably daily an Intel MacBook Pro with MacOS but with Windows in secondary for the few things I use that will not work on Mac or Linux, even through wine or proton. But for my circumstances windows does what I need it to do, and if Microsoft would stop being a little bitch for longer than 5 seconds, I would probably even feel positively about windows
I would love MacOS on a laptop. It would be perfect for music production. It's just so damn expensive for what you get hardware wise.
If the major audio applications and plugins ran on Linux without an emulator I'd switch immediately.
I think by this point the last generation of Intel MacBooks should be somewhat affordable. I think the 2017 airs are going for like $200-400 nowadays, depending on condition
That's actually pretty good. I'll keep an eye out. Would love to be able to add a laptop doing live music but windows is too sketchy.
It offers nothing at all. Honestly.
Not a single feature or reason to upgrade whatsoever.
I love Win11. Whenever I go back to previous versions they feel clunky to me now. I prefer the center-aligned taskbar and I prefer the start menu now. Search is good enough that I never have to go into "All apps" aka the traditional start menu which lists everything. I just press the windows key and start typing what I want and hit enter. Usually that just means 1 or 2 letters of the app I want.
That’s how I interacted with 10 yeah. 11 feels different. I think it’s my work computer switching that’s really forced me to confront its shortcomings. If all it ever does is launch steam games it’s fine.
Win 11 is dumb on so many UI levels. I feel stupider for using it. Am forced to at one workplace and it legit slows me down so much. Why the fuck is it auto pinning things to Quick Access?? And why is paste an ICON with no text???
It's the changing of things that don't need to be changed that pisses me off. So much of windows is muscle memory and now they're fucking with the basics.