re: Windows 11 (Page 1/2)
TheDigitalAlchemist JUN 22, 01:29 PM
Looks to be the same old sheetrock. You'd think they would have done something to deal with malware and ransomware... and I'm sure the Windows update experience won't be any better...

Bah.
williegoat JUN 22, 02:25 PM
But, but...they promised! Windows 10 would never leave me.
Is this part of the divorce settlement?

I'm going drinking with these guys.
TM_Fiero JUN 22, 05:22 PM
Windows 10 has ransomware protection already, you just need to turn it on and set it up.
RWDPLZ JUN 22, 11:52 PM
Remember this? Complete the pattern
Steel JUN 23, 03:29 AM
I only 'game' and run a select few Windows only programs on my Windows PC these days. I do nothing business related any longer, I never input my personal information on my Windows PC. I had to strip the massive amounts of bloat/telemetry from Win10 and finally had enough of the hassles.

Went back to a dual machine setup and run MX Linux on my primary machine. It's extremely use friendly, and offers all the 'positives' of Windows without the many downfalls and hidden negative datamining features.


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Remember this? Complete the pattern




This is funny, although I will say after all the BSOD issues on the Win 95 and early Win 98 era of the OS I did end up liking Windows 98SE edition and really made it enjoyable to use a computer back then.
TheDigitalAlchemist JUN 25, 12:21 PM
Not sure there is enough of a change to make it "Bad"

So far, it's very much the same experience as 10. It is running smoothly on a touchscreen laptop, IT's similiar to other Windows versions regarding how it handles the drivers, (I was hoping they would have improved that a little...)

Depending on your hardware, every flavor of Windows could have been good or bad. Out of the box, the only one I had issues with was "ME", because they tossed it on some machines that really weren't meant to run it (One was a Sony Thintop touchscreen thingie) it would blue screen every few boots right away, and that was a known (and unresolved) issue with that model. The fix was a reboot. Drivers were also pretty badly done for ME...

The OS is usually ok, but toss in on a network , try to get it to play nice with some older peripherals, or wait a few months and add a new device (or several of the same model)... and add driver issues (video, audio,chipset, network, peripherals,etc) and install apps version and 3rd party "other stuff", which use different versions of the same dll files...

I prefer my machines to be offline, they are more like toasters, just do your job. But I have a lot of older hardware peripherals that won't even run on newer OSes...

I think 11 will be known for /remembered more for the Store integration/android compatibility and what devices it runs on than the OS itself. Would be great if there was some Amdroid phone that could get iPhone users to switch over. The WIndows phoen I wad back in the day worked pretty well with the OS...
sorry if that was ranty/boring...have a nice weekend.

ps - if you want to try out 11, you can look for it at the "pirate ship" website or another torrent site and download a copy and install it on a spare machine.

xoxo

[This message has been edited by TheDigitalAlchemist (edited 06-25-2021).]

Jake_Dragon JUN 25, 01:26 PM
Vista was CPU and Memory hog, but if you had the hardware it ran fine.
My Vista workstation ran for years, games and online were fine.
Never had issues.

My windows 10 workstations on the other hand always choke on windows updates.
Driver issues and BSOD after an update.
USB was and still is a headache. Peripherals not working.
Ever try to remediate an issue without a working keyboard and mouse?

They have been updating and adding content to windows 10 for almost as long as its been out.
Logical progression. Clean up the code and release a hopeful stable base operating system including all of the updates that work and none of the crap that crashes peoples computers.
Expect more pay as you play options. Have to make that money.
TheDigitalAlchemist JUN 25, 04:01 PM

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I think they fired something like 10,000 employees when they were developing 10 - like all the 7 staff and lots of folks in the update dept.

You KNOW when you have updates pending (or that you need to reboot to install them) because Windows acts like complete garbage.


Jake_Dragon JUN 25, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:
because Windows acts like complete garbage.




It took 10 hours to update my laptop the last time I turned it on, Its my backup for work incase my main workstation is down.
They don't even warn you when the updates are going on in the back ground.
williegoat JUN 26, 05:33 PM
I have a Surface 3 laptop running Win 10. I just checked and Win 11 will not support the processor. It's a Microsoft machine for crying out loud, and it's probably only about six years old. I hate Microsoft! The only reason I have a Win machine at all is to run Quicken. Oh, did I mention that I hate Quicken, too?

I have been using Debian on everything for two decades. I upgrade hardware when it fails or when I want a performance upgrade, not because some pea brained geek decides it is obsolete.