Windows 11 lagging behind Windows 10 two years after launch

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Windows 10 still king two years after Windows 11 launch

Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system (OS) has roughly three times the number of users of its successor — Windows 11 — two years after the latter launched.

StatCounter's OS market share analysis shows that Windows 10 was still running on 71.64% of Windows devices in September 2023.
 
This is the first time since windows 7 that there are new hardware requirements, so adoption is going to be slow because of that.

Also, many laptops and desktops shipped with BIOS settings that prevent them from getting the free windows 11 upgrade.

I do forsee that business users will be forced to upgrade in 2025

And home users are going to get increasingly targeted by windows 10 malware.
 
Sapphiron said:
This is the first time since windows 7 that there are new hardware requirements, so adoption is going to be slow because of that.

Also, many laptops and desktops shipped with BIOS settings that prevent them from getting the free windows 11 upgrade.

I do forsee that business users will be forced to upgrade in 2025

And home users are going to get increasingly targeted by windows 10 malware.
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I still have an XP Machine used for work. It hasnt failed a day in the past 15 years, did updates the other day that microsoft provided to me. Works hellish well.
 
quovadis said:
I prefer 11 to 10 - seems more clean and refined. But if forced to use 10 it really wouldn’t bother me much.
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Windows 11 is again slightly faster than 10 if you have up to date hardware and handles HDR better.
I prefer 10 though, if only for the classic right-click menu in explorer and being able to easily run powershell as admin in a specific folder.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
if only for the classic right-click menu in explorer and being able to easily run powershell as admin in a specific folder.
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You can set windows terminal's default profile to run as administrator? Open terminal settings and then on the left under Profiles -> Defaults and then Run this profile as Administrator. There are some registry changes you can make to add a separate Terminal as Admin item to the context menu.
 
quovadis said:
You can set windows terminal's default profile to run as administrator? Open terminal settings and then on the left under Profiles -> Defaults and then Run this profile as Administrator. There are some registry changes you can make to add a separate Terminal as Admin item to the context menu.
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I don't usually want to run as admin, only occasionally.
I did the registry hack to add the Terminal as Admin to context menu, but it doesn't work exactly the same as it did in Win 10.
 
quovadis said:
TPM and specific processor support requirements will always limit Windows 11 and future editions. Also, for many, the hardware will age out before we see earlier versions fade into oblivion.
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I mean this, how could they possibly not realise this? For my example I could upgrade my old Ryzen 2600 without any issues, but my 1600AF which is also an underclocked Ryzen 2600 Windows 11 said wasn't compatible and wouldn't upgrade.
 
Lupus said:
I mean this, how could they possibly not realise this? For my example I could upgrade my old Ryzen 2600 without any issues, but my 1600AF which is also an underclocked Ryzen 2600 Windows 11 said wasn't compatible and wouldn't upgrade.
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Same for many who run workstation/server rigs as desktops with Xeon procs. Not sure why they just didn’t create two versions (enhanced security vs normal) since it basically runs fine if you’re savvy enough to bypass the upgrade checks.

I basically run Windows natively only on my desktop now - virtualised Windows 11 arm on my Macs but if my bypassed win 11 install stops working my next desktop is unlikely to be a PC. IMHO gaming now is the only category where windows on pc hardware is still ahead - the rest is debatable.
 
quovadis said:
Same for many who run workstation/server rigs as desktops with Xeon procs. Not sure why they just didn’t create two versions since it basically runs fine if you’re savvy enough to bypass the upgrade checks.

I basically run Windows natively only on my desktop now - virtualised Windows 11 arm on my Macs but if my bypassed win 11 install stops working my next desktop is unlikely to be a PC. IMHO gaming now is the only category where windows on pc hardware is still ahead - the rest is debatable.
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Well that is the only reason I use Windows, is for gaming. My workstations are on Linux, my servers are Linux, my laptop is Linux :-). Windows has been regulated to gaming only at home and every bloody time I want to game there is an update.
 
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Barbarian Conan said:
I don't usually want to run as admin, only occasionally.
I did the registry hack to add the Terminal as Admin to context menu, but it doesn't work exactly the same as it did in Win 10.
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Windows 11 does have run as admin in context menu now / you can set it to be the full menu I think. Unsure as I always use the ctrl+shift+enter shortcut to run as admin.

For terminal, look at gsudo, basically sudo for Windows, and can elevate either command or terminal to admin context.
 
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