This looks interesting. Maybe I'll do an image backup and run this tool, just to see what Win11 has to offer.
My current 11s are fine here too now that they have been mastered to a degree without senseless lunacy interruptions. NO EDGE HERE EVER! Win 10 plus the 8.1s are WORKHORSES running smoothly and as efficiently functional even more so. But 25H2 is my last bump in the road. Chances are i will wait until 12 surfaces before investing in a new machine though. Might. Maybe. Been in the weeds with this 11 nonsense way long enough i think. And that Bork Tuesday updates routine is gone overboard IMHO. I am however very eagerly anticipating doing some LINUX installs just as soon as there's time after clearing up 11s and a ton of other factors MS chose to enforce on them at users.
I have been reading statements like these since Windows Vista days!..."I done with Windows, time to switch to Linux etc. etc.", and yet in the last 20 years Linux's worldwide desktop share has never gone above 4.5%. The way Linux is, with all the 1000+ distros and 100+ desktop environments, it will never be a viable alternative to Windows OS.
Windows 10 still active on 40% of devices in spite of EOS. That sure is an interesting read. https://www.securityweek.com/windows-10-still-on-over-40-of-devices-as-it-reaches-end-of-support/ And what's more.......
That does not surprise me, Windows 10 is a fully functional OS. Most people probably have realized that just because it went EOS, does not mean it will stop working.
"The only sane Windows left": Microsoft faces backlash after ending Windows 10 support — "Now we're all getting Windows 11'd to death" https://www.windowscentral.com/micr...ort-now-were-all-getting-windows-11d-to-death
Well I did a total about face on what I said here initially. Laptop was transitioned to Linux Mint Cinnamon several months after the initial post, forgoing any dual boot option w/ Windows.
The transition for me was more of acclimating to the OS and its nuances or occasionally having to use the command line plus knowing the commands. But the Mint support forum has been a tremendous resource with any questions I had, and or, help that I needed. So all in all my transition experience has been a very pleasant one.
100% agree. It's time Linux be referred to as linux as "soda" and "sauce" do in bartender and culinary discussions in forums and the press. My three Win10 desktops PCs are now in REOS* state. ClipESUConsumer.exe and clipesu.exe are both blocked in GlassWire. While I don't foresee any issues, I can't help but feel being in a fingers-crossed temperament. That said, four to six daily Antimalware WU Stubs have arrived since the October 14 update cut-off via my hourly-check Task Scheduler process on my every-day system running from about 9 AM to 11 PM. In the "time flies when you're having fun" spirit, one of the PCs is an ancient ASUS G35 mobo E3400 Core 2 Duo I built in 2008 on which I installed the 2nd (or 3rd) Windows Insider release of Win10 Pro back in 2015-something and still bears the Activate Windows watermark on the Desktop. It served valiantly as a test system for the ~120 Windows Torture Update sessions. I might throw it over to one of the Top 100 Page Hit Ranking distributions posted up at the linux DistroWatch[dot]com site. It's been a while since all the Knoppix 2.1 to Ubuntu 6.10 fun I had until I got fed up with the "i wrote a script" "community help" non-fixes. The other Win 10 box (Home) is a Dell i6-6100/H110 I bought in 2016 and not Win11 ready at all. The only way I'll go Win11 is if my every-day i9-9900K/Z390 Win10 Pro box (built in 2020) goes up in non-repairable (read: $$$) smoke. Or if the aforementioned fingers-crossed fails me and I'm forced to for MS365 usability, like "spreadsheet cell data copy and paste is available only in Windows 11." It could happen. I wonder what our AI overlords will have us using in 2040... *reached-end-of-support
Windows 11 is not that bad if you upgrade to the Pro version. You can switch off most of the telemetry, AI, Microsoft store apps, and other background stuff using the Group Policy Editor not present in the Home version, and the other stuff can be firewalled safely. The UI issues can be solved with apps like ExplorerPatcher. The Control Panel has been dumbed down to the Settings app, and they are planning to phase it out completely, that is a bit troubling, but all the advanced options are still accessible, you just have to click through multiple screens to get to them. It is not an ideal OS, but considering the alternatives available, it is the safest choice for long term Windows users.
And that is what really bites about Redmond MS Windows 11. they are transitioning to HIDING more and more commonly useful settings which could be needed even for the simple things. In other words they seem to want to blind users to the accessible's that Windows users have been long acquainted with for years. They already have shown in Win 11 a shrinking fixation. Forcing users into yet more wasted time sifting through various screens and line item settings is ridiculous.
I voted Other, because I bought already a Windows 11. But, I will not upgrade my W10 to W11. The two main reasons are, 1. It is not compatible, and I will not go thru hoops to do an upgrade. And 2. The most important reason is that very likely W11 would be too much for my W10. Besides all that. I do like W11. What I am not liking much anymore is Microsoft. Windows already has so much stuff that I don't like or use and MS continues adding bells and whistles. It never ends. I just read about the 4 GB update that includes a lot of AI. I like AI but don't like it living in my computer. I also feel disgusted and betrayed by MS abandoning W10 so soon. But W11 is fine. I haven't had any major issue, just annoyances. I am being extra careful with updates. If you want to buy a W11 computer, I think is fine but I would wait to the beginning of 2027. Why wait? You ll save anger and confusion due to the certificates that expire next year. New computers as of now, are not being shipped ready with the new certificates. I think they should but they ain't. For this, I not only blame MS but also the computer manufacturers. All of them are guilty. Bo
If I may be so bold: the "average" pc user doesn't even know how to use Windows properly, you can forget about Linux. Acadia
To be pedantic, I wouldn't call it an UP-grade, because it implies something better. Thus my answer is I will not down-grade to Windows 11. I could use it for testing, and I don't know what will happen 4-5 years from now vis-a-vis some specific software whatnot that only works on Windows, which might necessitate a one-off vm or some such for three minutes of use per year or alike. But the answer stands. Mrk
I wonder if Win 11 is really that bad, I remember that people said the same about Win 8 and Win 10, but I didn't have any major problems. I'm guessing that Win 11 with a few tweaks here and there, will work just as good as Win 10. But I'm not saying that there aren't any annoyances, I can't believe that Win Explorer is still pretty crappy after 20+ years.
Vista was ... bad. Win 8 was terrible on a PC, until 8.1 came out. 10 is fine because it's pretty much 7, which was solid, though the double Settings-but-still-have-the-old-control-panel is pretty poor design. But, given all the recent gaffes and mistakes MS has been making with 11? To me it's another Vista/Win8, and it seems to be getting worse, not better.
I received and email from the software company we get to do our taxes. No longer compatible with Windows 10. Also my Mac is running macOS Catalina. I could upgrade my Mac to macOS Monterey but that's no longer compatible with the software. I was debating to get a Windows 11 computer for this software. Then I thought about what Bill Gates said about Windows 10, This will be the last computer you will ever need for all updates or words to that effect. So they came out with Windows 11 now and from what I'm reading there are a lot of complaints about it. My decision is to but a New Apple Mini computer at the military base where I can get it cheaper, discount and tax free. No more Microsoft for me. This is what I'm getting: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/ Apple M4 chip with 10‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine 24GB unified memory 1TB SSD storage Gigabit Ethernet Three Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI port, two USB‑C ports, headphone jack
MS has done about all they likely can do with Explorer.exe. At least at this point, after as you said, 20 years later, it no longer throws HARD ERROR messages out of the blue like before What i find amazing is how snappy and fast my Windows 8.1 still is compared to Win 11. Windows 10 is on the same level as well. As always MS continues to always run away from stable releases and brand them as end-of-service O/S's when they are nothing of the kind.
Wow. That is no longer supported by Apple since 2022... https://endoflife.date/macos PS: That Mac mini is nice. Enjoy!
Windows 11 was really bad on its initial release, but now after four years and this latest 25H2, it is perfectly fine. I still have to use ExplorerPatcher to tweak a couple of things, but otherwise it has not given me any issues, and I do not miss Windows 10 at all.
