Have you upgraded to Windows 11 or plan to?

[Marc_LFD]

I've been waiting for Windows 11 to become more polished and stabled, but I keep seeing it's still not very reliable and needs at least another year or two, maybe. For now and maybe until 2029 I'll stick with 10 LTSC, and then move to 11 LTSC or to a Linux distro.



Arch looks really good and since 2010 I have been using Android as my handheld OS so Linux feels right at home now. Windows.. Windows will lose long-time customers if they don't improve Windows 11.

 

[Sphaa]

I haven't upgraded my main desktop PC because it has a Ryzen 1800 that isn't supported, but I bought myself a new laptop with Windows 11.
Win 11 is fine for the most part, but I HATE the right click menu. Cut/Copy is swapped out with icons and I can't really adopt to that. There are also some other programs I use with a right-click options that now need some extra navigation.
Start-menu is also an downgrade from win 10, but that doesn't bother me.

Beside that, I think Win 11 is fine. Not better than win 10, but not much worse either.

 

[Marc_LFD]

I haven't upgraded my main desktop PC because it has a Ryzen 1800 that isn't supported, but I bought myself a new laptop with Windows 11.
Win 11 is fine for the most part, but I HATE the right click menu. Cut/Copy is swapped out with icons and I can't really adopt to that. There are also some other programs I use with a right-click options that now need some extra navigation.
Start-menu is also an downgrade from win 10, but that doesn't bother me.

Beside that, I think Win 11 is fine. Not better than win 10, but not much worse either.

If Windows 11 functioned without the Microsoft Store and Edge it'd be great, but seems if it gets manually uninstalled it gets installed with the next update.

I use 10 LTSC which doesn't have neither of those and I'm happy with it. It feels like the true successor of 7 without bloatware.

 

[TomRiddle]

I've been waiting for Windows 11 to become more polished and stabled, but I keep seeing it's still not very reliable and needs at least another year or two, maybe. For now and maybe until 2029 I'll stick with 10 LTSC, and then move to 11 LTSC or to a Linux distro.



Arch looks really good and since 2010 I have been using Android as my handheld OS so Linux feels right at home now. Windows.. Windows will lose long-time customers if they don't improve Windows 11.

I've been using Windows 11 sense October 2021 and I can tell you for sure that it's alright.

Not a bad OS but maybe wait just some time longer for it to be more stable if that is the case for you.

 

[godreborn]

I'm still using windows 10, and I have wsl versions of Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian. I use Debian mostly with Ubuntu for docker. I encountered several bugs with windows 10 that were fixed over time, and I don't want a repeat on windows 11, so I'll probably wait until I buy a new computer that comes with 11.

 

[subcon959]

I haven't upgraded my main desktop PC because it has a Ryzen 1800 that isn't supported, but I bought myself a new laptop with Windows 11.
Win 11 is fine for the most part, but I HATE the right click menu. Cut/Copy is swapped out with icons and I can't really adopt to that. There are also some other programs I use with a right-click options that now need some extra navigation.
Start-menu is also an downgrade from win 10, but that doesn't bother me.

Beside that, I think Win 11 is fine. Not better than win 10, but not much worse either.

I agree with both points, luckily you can fix the right-click menu with registry editing..

Disable new context menu:
reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve

Restore new context menu:
reg.exe delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" /f

 

[Viri]

I tried it, and it was a let down. Then I downgraded to Windows 10.

 

[tech3475]

I’m still on W10, mainly because apart from maybe Android support I’m just not seeing a reason to upgrade as of now and deal with the potential hassle.

I find it’s very ’W8 like’ in that I need to ‘fix’ the OS to make it comfortable to use e.g. replacement start menu.

 

[Takokeshi]

No reason when mine's good until 2032.

 

[pustal]

I've upgraded to Win 11 in all my computers that have TPM, even if officially not supported, and have no issues on those. On the rest, for most, I've cloned the Windows disk or partition and upgraded the clone to have a dual boot environment. This goes from a Core2Duo machine to a 2006 i5. Windows 11 works fine except when using DirectX on these older machines. I've been trying to figure out he issue but no avail.

So far, the only real life common user improvement I see is for HDR and multi-monitor support. Auto HDR is absolutely great.

 

[error404bsod]

I hate windows 11 it KS ugly and not good for gaming WTH MICROSOFT I regret upgrading my surface pro 7

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

Haven´t noticed any issues. Right-clicking in the explorer now takes an extra step to see the old options.
You have two weeks within which you can easily downgrade again. (after that some system files will be deleted)

 

[Sphaa]

I agree with both points, luckily you can fix the right-click menu with registry editing..

Thanks, I will try that.

 

[Elrinth]

I had some issues with multiple monitors which was only solvable by deleting stuff in the registry. (My HDTV would never ever again become available in multi-monitor section)
But after I figured that out. It's been working fine for me. It was something regarding some combination of settings I clicked which caused the HDTV to never become available again and the only way to get it back was thru registry deletion.

And as everyone else, I replaced the right click menu with the ordinary one.
Don't see any reason to upgrade to win11 just yet
They fixed alot of settings missing in win 10 for win 11. That's good.
I still prefer all previous configuration menues they had before win 10. But they made most settings possible for Tablet or touch screen which is good. Many were missing in win 10, now most can be found in win 11.
Don't really see any improvements over 10, other than the unecessesary bad ones they added. Luckily you can revert all of them if you'd like to But you'll have to update to 11 sooner or later anyways since 10 won't be supported forever.
I'd say it's stable enough now to upgrade to 11. Then again I opted in for insider also, so I'm running the latest and greatest.

 

[Joker25]

No, I'm using a pirate Windows 10 and I'm fine with it. I play and rather suffer on Windows, and work on a MacBook. Coincidence?

 

[Kioku]

Been using W11 since it released. No major issues. I have some complaints about the UI, but the overall experience has been smoother than W10. Truth be told, I'm actually in the process of moving to my EndeavourOS install full time. Microsoft and their ads, bloatware, and proprietary shit is getting annoying.

 

[g00s3y]

Tried it, hated it. I don't want fucking emojis for copy/cut/paste/etc...

"But you can make it look like OSX now"

If I wanted a mac, I would buy a mac.

 

[Tomato123]

W11 is basically a reskin of 10 where they just made things worse. Why would I want that?

Things like even more telemetry and making random changes that make no sense like the taskbar being in the middle (I know you can change it) and the removal of the start menu (I know there are third party programs to fix that but it shouldn't have been a thing in the first place).

Why move to a OS where I'm just going to have more headaches from Microsoft treating me like a baby. Once W10 support is gone, I'm likely moving fully to a Linux distro instead of just dual booting. Thinking maybe Arch or Pop OS. I like Arch for the customization but Pop OS is based on Ubuntu/Debian and I'm more familiar with that.

 

[Cyan]

I'm using Win11 at my work place.

it's fine except for few things which I can't accept è_é

They removed few features present since W95 affecting the task bar !!!
- They removed the option to NOT merge windows from the same application. I can't live without that option... Working without ALL the windows listed individually on the task bar is counter productive and takes longer to do things we could do before (maximize/minimize by clicking on them)
- They also removed the ability to resize it (no need anymore, it's only Icon listed, no more window with their names...)
- They removed the ability to drop files on task bar (if you want to drag drop a file, you could keep the file over the app for 2 seconds to put that window on the foreground on ALL Windows OS, but no more with W11...)
- You can't put the taskbar where you want (right/left/top), it's bottom only. (I don't need to, but it's one of the changes which can affect some people)

It seems there are workaround:
I've found register hacks but users are not happy and report bugs. I don't want to try.
I've found an app restoring the behavior, but I'm at work so I can't install what I want...

 

[godreborn]

I'm using Win11 at my work place.

it's fine except for few things which I can't accept è_é

They removed two features present since W95 affecting the task bar !!!
- They removed the option to NOT merge windows from the same application. I can't live without that option... Working without ALL the windows listed individually on the task bar is counter productive and takes longer to do things we could do before (maximize/minimize by clicking on them)
- They removed the ability to drop files on apps on task bar (you want to drag drop a file, you can keep the file over the app for 2 seconds to put that window on the foreground on ALL Windows OS, but no more with W11...)
- You can't put the taskbar where you want (right/left/top), it's bottom only. (I don't need to, but it's one of the changes which can affect some people)

It seems there are workaround:
I've found register hacks but users are not happy and report bugs. I don't want to try.
I've found an app restoring the behavior, but I'm at work so I can't install what I want...

not being able to put apps on your taskbar really sucks. I've been a minimalist with this new pc, only putting the most used stuff on my desktop or taskbar: