Windows 11 lagging behind Windows 10 two years after launch

Barbarian Conan said:
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.
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Don't think it's slightly faster, what it has is a better scheduler for Intels efficiency cores.

Worst features for me are Windows + K no longer opens BT devices, they made it a bit better that Windows + A and click on the right side of Wi-Fi to get there, but it's not easy/quick as pure keyboard.

Task manager is both better and worse, don't like the new icons.

Settings is a lot better, just cause finally unified, just usual devices and printers and sound being annoying to get to, but also the network panel with all network adapters, more difficult to swap things like force 1Gbps, have to go via device manager.

I really like the fancy zones changes they brought in, but can get on W10 with power toys.
 
lkpat said:
How is 11 different to 10?
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I don't use it at home, so don't know that side. But in work environment, few people working with me moved over to 11, me included but I moved back to 10 after a month. 11 has a new sh!tty redesigned explorer (like wm in linux). Explorer keeps crashing, like 2 or 3 times a week. Quite annoying. Everyone experience this, I'm the only one that got fed-up enough to move back to 10.
Funny when they present something in a meeting and the explorer restarts and they have to open all windows again.
 
Isn't that what they wanted though by limiting systems that can install it.

And then of course there are some of us hwk are still on W7 (well, not really, but you get the drift)
 
Johnatan56 said:
Don't think it's slightly faster, what it has is a better scheduler for Intels efficiency cores.

Worst features for me are Windows + K no longer opens BT devices, they made it a bit better that Windows + A and click on the right side of Wi-Fi to get there, but it's not easy/quick as pure keyboard.

Task manager is both better and worse, don't like the new icons.

Settings is a lot better, just cause finally unified, just usual devices and printers and sound being annoying to get to, but also the network panel with all network adapters, more difficult to swap things like force 1Gbps, have to go via device manager.

I really like the fancy zones changes they brought in, but can get on W10 with power toys.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about fancy zones. The power toys version came close, but not as good as the Win 11 behaviour. Especially on a portrait monitor. Win 11 feels slightly faster to me in general usage, but I'll concede that it could just be the speed of a clean system.
 
KleinBoontjie said:
I don't use it at home, so don't know that side. But in work environment, few people working with me moved over to 11, me included but I moved back to 10 after a month. 11 has a new sh!tty redesigned explorer (like wm in linux). Explorer keeps crashing, like 2 or 3 times a week.
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The explorer crashing must be hardware specific (driver related or whatever I guess). Mine hardly crashes. What I do find annoying is the right-click menu that requires an extra click for things I use regularly - it doesn't learn much.
KleinBoontjie said:
Funny when they present something in a meeting and the explorer restarts and they have to open all windows again.
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Ja, that's annoying. I would absolutely go back to 10. I had an issue in the early days and went back to 10, then I accidentally upgraded to 11 and have been OK with it since - the other issue had been resolved since.
 
Corelli said:
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.
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*A Randsomware scammer would like to know your location*
 
Sapphiron said:
*A Randsomware scammer would like to know your location*
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Not all computers are connected to the internet. I too have PCs at work still running on Windows XP, still doing what they are doing very well. Having said that, the one instrument's PC died on me yesterday, but not because of Windows XP, the HDD died after running 24/7/365 for the last 13 years.
 
geezer said:
Not all computers are connected to the internet. I too have PCs at work still running on Windows XP, still doing what they are doing very well. Having said that, the one instrument's PC died on me yesterday, but not because of Windows XP, the HDD died after running 24/7/365 for the last 13 years.
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its very true.

The decision to stop supporting old OS's is purely a consideration for Microsoft. It does not mean the OS becomes useless.

Unsupported software should become open source once a company refuses to support it.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
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.
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Can do a quick regedit to bring back the expanded context menu. First thing I do after install besides use Edge to Download Chrome etc.

www.tomshardware.com

How to Get Full Context Menus in Windows 11

Truncated context menus are Windows 11's worst feature.
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com
 
I bought a RYZEN 5 2400G the end of 2019 for my media machine. Win 11 came out 2 years later. I can't upgrade to 11 even though the next iteration the 3400G is pretty much the same CPU which is supported.
I really do like 11. Things are neater, not half baked between Win 7/8 and something new. And I find it more neater and organized. I had no real issues with Win 10 though, not a hater of the OS.
But Win11 gave me tabbed explorer tabs - and that honestly is such a nice feature for me. And I don't want to use a third party app to achieve this. And MS, can't actually tell me why my CPU is not supported.
 
RedViking said:
Also, it breaks Starfield. Who wants to install an OS messing with the universe.
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I've finished starfield multiple times on windows 11. I run old hardware, having TPM was luck.
But really if people still running things without TPM then Linux should be their destination.
Next thing people with their commodores are going to complain.
 
lkpat said:
How is 11 different to 10?
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11 has allot of little things that's nicer. Feels like I can integrate more of my life into it. Feels a bit more cloudy. It's voice recognition in my opinion is still the best, because of the integration it provides. The whole TPM problem is also why it's great. Installing a clean system feels secure.
 
_TrXtR_ said:
I've finished starfield multiple times on windows 11. I run old hardware, having TPM was luck.
But really if people still running things without TPM then Linux should be their destination.
Next thing people with their commodores are going to complain.
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I probably spend more time on Linux shells than anything else but as a primary desktop it’s still not quite there for me. Running Win 11 with no tpm on unsupported processors just fine.
 
_TrXtR_ said:
11 has allot of little things that's nicer. Feels like I can integrate more of my life into it. Feels a bit more cloudy. It's voice recognition in my opinion is still the best, because of the integration it provides. The whole TPM problem is also why it's great. Installing a clean system feels secure.
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It's a feel good system?
TPM problem is why it's great? What TPM problem exactly?
 
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