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I was forced to upgrade to Windows 11 on my work computer. Only thing I noticed is that all the settings have arbitrarily been moved around to different locations. Absolutely no tangible benefit to upgrading whatsoever.
Still, I decided I would upgrade my home computer as well anyway. Really enjoying my upgrade from Windows 10 to Pop! OS.
Absolutely no tangible benefit to upgrading whatsoever.
Not so fast! Here's a list of the improvements I have experienced on my work PC:
"But we're adding more ads, spying on you more, and removing more tools. We're trying everything, why don't people like it?
Seriously. I installed windows 11 for a new build and couldn't get my sound working for the life of me. Super quiet sound the entire time even though I had my volume at 100%
After reading a gaggle of pages of people complaining on the same issue and the OH SO HELPFUL advice of "just replace every piece of hardware in your pc and reboot" after I just built the thing, I find out it's widespread problem with no fix and the sound settings are harder to get to and to change and TRY OUR AI. Did you know it's Harry trumans birthday? And the lot
Installed windows 10, have regular volume that sounds appropriately loud when I put it at 50% volume or higher. What good is am OS if it breaks functionality ?
A normal person doesn't care if they're being spied. I think it's because windows 11 feels like the same shit as windows 10. They are actually the same crap to me, I don't even know what's the advantage in upgrading to windows 11
I've moved 3 PCs from WIndows 10 to Mint in the past year.
Ditto bro. Trying bazzite on one now too. Need to move to AMD GPU.
Also dropped 3 rokus for LibreELEC
Also started investing in BD/dvds (yard sales)
It's either open source or physical media these days brah. ( And jellyfin)
Same but what is LibreELEC?
A distro dedicated to running Kodi.
EDIT: A linux distro just big enough to run Kodi
It's pretty sweet homie! I have it tied into my server hosting Emby and Jellyfin, looks very similar to their respective apps. tied into most of the services (paramount+ for some dang Star Trek) and able to use my own pictures as screensavers and backgrounds. Tied into my home automation system for control from phone/remote!
and nobody building a profile of ads to try and swindle me at every turn
That sounds awesome! I started using Infuse but will be checking this out for my Jellyfin instance. For the Paramount+, does it allow you to skip the intro “ads” for other shows on the platform? I am annoyed by those and consider them ads.
We don't see anything like that, so I guess so!
I literally can't upgrade because of their new hardware requirements. My PC is plenty powerful for the tasks I need, what am I supposed to do, buy another one?
I know this is cliche but try Linux when support is dropped, at least if your workflow permits it. Anything is better than sending a perfectly good system to the landfill..
The shitty thing is that I have everything in my house just working right now. Media server, photo backup, drive pooling, snapraid, kids' PCs, etc etc.
Can I do all this on Linux? Of course. Would it arguably be better on Linux? Yeah probably. Do I want to invest God knows how many hours/days/weeks switching things over, debugging issues on all my devices trawling through forums to find fixes...? Hell no.
Just trying to help. I don't really care for tinkering with stuff either but most of that stuff your talking about sounds pretty trivial on linux. Not trying to dismiss any of your concerns.
I understand how daunting it is to start from scratch though. I've done it twice, once when I switched to Mac OS and the second time to Linux. It's always rough finding those alternative apps when your apps aren't there and getting used to a new paradigm.
If you want to use the Mac in a way Apple never intended it was a royal pain in the ass to hack at it. And I didn't switch to Linux for a long time because games and general polish. I blame x11 for Linux desktop jank but major desktops like kde plasma have their bugs too.
Nothing pissed me off more than being an honest citizen buying two copies of windows 10 at full price just to get treated like a freeloader or someone who downloaded a free to play game. When they required a Microsoft account I left.
Same here, I was like "wtf do you mean my hardware isn't compatible? It's 10 times faster than trashy laptops that come with Windows 11". What I realized was I didn't have some DRM shit turned on in my BIOS.
I know this isnt popular on here, but its because Windows 10 is pretty damn great.
For damn near EVERYTHING 99.99% of users do 99.99% of the time it just fucking works.
Windows10 is great, it just kinda works...but it's still absolute shit. The amount of garbage that's forced and still existing that you need to disable is absurd.
Tell me how to disable onedrive and make it stop coming back
Windows 10 was wildly unpopular at release. I didn't upgrade until I absolutely had to. Now windows 10 is, in my opinion, a very good OS.
I still don't understand the numbering system. They could ditch the numbers and just call it windows at this point. 15 years ago it made sense. Now? Not so much.
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So they kept the pattern huh? 1 good OS release, then 1 shit OS release that everyone avoids until the next good OS release.
Looking forward to windows 12. But if that turns out to be shit also then at least we have Linux.
GOOD. Switch to Linux!