As someone who uses both daily I prefer the shell of Windows 11.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
1110 points (98.6% liked)
Technology
59429 readers
2814 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Since XP, I always upgraded to the next version whenever it came out. The insane hardware requirements of Windows 11 make it the only exception.
Looks like Microsoft needs to further enhance the consumer experience by adding more personalized product recommendations, that'll fix it right up!
load more comments
(2 replies)
I’m really loving this journey for them 🥰
Win 11 has a bunch of new small frustrations without anything crazy good that makes me want to recommend it over 10. It's... Just really unclear what benefits I'm actually getting from 11.
There's one feature that win11 has over win10 that I wish was there, and that's the default layout manager is superior to windows 10's, and less fidgety and better hotkeys than what's offered with Power Toys. Especially vertical monitor support, which win10s layout manager never got an update for. And as a Tie-Fighter monitor setup user (4k portrait, WQHD landscape, 4k portrait) having an effective layout manager is crucial.
However, there's 3rdParty layout managers that are even better than the win11 implementation. Butt to be able to get the default support of an effective layout manager is quite nice.
That said, that's the only feature I really like aside from some nominal improvements/optimizations to background systems (network stack, Bluetooth management, "game mode") and services. That's not enough for me to transition when there's so many other things that were done to make it a worse experince.
I'm excited to transition my personal desktop to PopOS once win10 reaches EoL. Maybe Valve will drop their latest SteamOS in time for the Win10 EoL hoping to attract all those gamers on non-TPM 2.0 supported systems that are still great gaming rigs. I know I'd at least give it a go.
I think this is the best assessment I've read yet of Windows 11. I just switched the OS on my work computer with a fresh install of Windows 11 and have run into a handful of issues and frustrations. This thing has been out for like 3 years now. It shouldn't still be this problematic. I may end up switching to a long-term support version of Windows 10 that goes to 2027 or 2029. Unfortunately that's only available for Enterprise editions, so I can't do the same at home. I'm soon going to be dual- and triple-booting Linux at home.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Just really unclear what benefits I'm actually getting from 11.
Better access to ads and improved data gathering!
Oh wait, you're looking for benefits for the user? Umm... Security updates that will protect you from the vulnerability in Windows 10 that will get leaked as soon as it is no longer supported.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Hmm... I wonder why Linux has yet to rise.
I mean, we only have like 17 months until support for Windows 10 ends, it's not like it's that long.
It has. For the first time, it's risen to over 4% of market share of desktops: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-share-reaches-4-of-desktops/
Of course this doesn't count Android or Chromebooks, both of which run Linux on some level.
That's a win.
It will major corporate and legislative backing to even attempt one. For many end users the desktop pc, if they ever have one, is yet another techie stuff they don't want to bother themselves with. You don't simply get them to install a new program, let alone an entirely new operating system. Some do make the leap, however.
I guess that kinda makes sense.
But we'll, Ubuntu was basically the average computer user's introduction to Linux (even if it kinda sucks now), I kinda think it could still do the job fairly well... only for those users to switch to a potentially better distro.
Opening the command prompt in windows is considered 'hacking' these days. Using Ubuntu is a big leap.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
I've been thinking on switching to linux on my laptop but I keep reading on the worse battery life on linux.
You should try booting to a live USB stick. Then you can check how the performance compares on your hardware, without any permanent changes.
Eh, my lappy has terrible battery life regardless of what OS is running on it, and even then, I always use it plugged it anyway, exactly like Strong Bad (it's why I used the word "Lappy")
I'm thinking real hard about making my next system Mint...
Same here. I'm going to be testing Mint and PopOS! soon.
I'm gonna start with a baby step. I want to set up a mini pc for my living room streaming. I'm thinking I'll do Linux on it and dip my toe in the water that way, eventually I'll transition to Linux on my main pc too once I get the hang of it. Most of what I do is online or open source so Im not locked to programs. It's mostly games atm, a couple of which won't run on Linux, league of legends is one if they go ahead with vanguard. I'll either set up a completely separate mini pc to only play league or quit.
I would absolutely recommend it! It works very well and with the cinnamon version it comes with many cool apps that I would never call bloat. (I never knew that I could watch live TV via internet, thanks Hypnotix!). My biggest issues were the Nvidia drivers for gaming, but I only needed to press 5 buttons to install the proprietary ones, and with Proton all of my games ran just fine. Except for the VR games. That is the only reason why I still keep that other OS on my disk.
I'm thinking the same thing with KDE Neon. Idk, Mint just feels WAY too similar to Windows. I get some people like that, but I don't wanna be reminded of something inferior.
Good luck with your mint.