Anyone upgrading to Windows 11?

[chrisrlink]

you do know the true reason for disabling local accounts right? because their the US gov's bitch and trying to circumvent the need for warrants

 

[nl255]

You could also try install Windows 11 IoT Enterprise which has much more relaxed requirements and is binary identical to the regular version (and yes, you can do an in-place upgrade via a single reg add command, no need for a full reinstall). Yes you do have to activate it using alternate means but big deal.

 

[DragonMals]

while you're still booted into windows 10, run the installer on the flash drive. You will do an in-place upgrade to windows 11 and keep your files.

I still want to know if doing Windows 10 to Tiny11 is possible with this setup...

 

[Deleted member 535703]

Windows 11 is fine. It's Windows, for better and for worse. This "Windows 10 is the best! I hate Windows 11" bandwagon just seems utterly pointless to me. They're both *fine enough*, but also annoying at times.

Theres a variety of debloaters and shells I use to optimize system performance with changes on 11 I disagree with. However, I can say with a certainty I love that defender works better than a modern antivirus and for that I will stay on it.

 

[smf]

There are of course unofficial ways to install it and it may work, but there is also a chance it may be broken by a future update.

I am running windows 11 on a core 2 duo, it has no tpm, no eufi and only 4gb of ram. However it stopped updating when Microsoft added sse4.2 as a requirement.

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you do know the true reason for disabling local accounts right? because their the US gov's bitch and trying to circumvent the need for warrants

If the government wants your bitlocker key they your life is already fucked. They likely have evidence linking you to terrorism or child sex abuse.

 

[NitroShell]

If I could, I would, but not vanilla Windows 11 but rather one of those "Lite" versions

I do not trust those, the best way is to use a script while installing, even though Microsoft tries so hard to stop it.

 

[Skv0ra]

What, exactly, is at the "end of life" in Win10? Slew of bloaty updates no one EVER asked for?

 

[sarkwalvein]

I've had installed Windows 11 since the day I built this computer.
It is a piece of shit, but you deal with it.
Windows peaked at 7 and it has been getting worse rapidly afterwards, but you deal with it I guess.

 

[Sicklyboy]

What, exactly, is at the "end of life" in Win10? Slew of bloaty updates no one EVER asked for?

No more security updates, so OS vulnerabilities that get discovered won't get patched anymore.

 

[Joe88]

win10 still has another year of security updates before real eol
I'll be hanging on till then for any news of win12

 

[Flycaster7]

I've used win11 pro for well over two years and have zero problems with it- however, I do lock down my computer; i.e., I go through all settings including registry and group policy settings disabling as much as I can without breaking the OS. (massgrave is your friend)

I am very reluctant to update to the most recent win 11 26h2 because of all the AI and additional telemetry including giving all apps access to all telemetry data and privacy related info. Plus the continuous screenshots, keylogging and other b.s microsoft pulls.

 

[Greninji88]

win10 still has another year of security updates before real eol
I'll be hanging on till then for any news of win12



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I thought that was supposed to a paid extension!

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If your PC doesn't support Windows 11 natively:

1, download the windows 11 iso https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11
2, download rufus https://rufus.ie/en/
3, plug in a flash drive and use rufus to write the iso to the flash drive. It will ask if you want to disable the TPM and processor checks and disable telemetry
4, while you're still booted into windows 10, run the installer on the flash drive. You will do an in-place upgrade to windows 11 and keep your files.

I did this 2 weeks ago for my mom's PC that has my old Intel i5-4690k from 2014 in it. Worked perfectly.

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In my case, no. I ditched Win10 and installed Proxmox (Debian based hypervisor suite) on my desktop and moved to using an Arch Linux VM as my daily driver with hardware passthrough so I can still use my GPU, monitors, mouse and keyboard, etc. as if the Arch VM were the bare metal OS

Yeah, I've heard of those methods, but Windows 11 isn't for me... My school laptop has it, and I'm not too impressed. My main concern so far is that right clicking doesn't give all the normal options, and I'll have to edit the registry to bring it back, besides that, it's not too too bad, but I don't have admin on my school laptop, so maybe there's more problems I haven't discovered yet.

Linux seems pretty good, bit it's a big change frame Windows, so I'll leave that to my Raspberry pi

 

[Xzi]

No reason to jump on 11 yet, you can get a year of extended updates free, and pay for a couple more years after that. By 2028 we might have an official desktop edition of SteamOS available to switch to.

Win10 could also last a long time even after updates cease altogether, assuming no new major exploits/vulnerabilities are found.

 

[Exidous]

I'm pissed they're trying to strangle Windows 7 use at the browser level - it's down to very artisanal Chromium spin offs that work at all.

We need a new antitrust action concerning web browser software to scare these assholes into less exploitative practices. Google's chromium engine (and attendant influence over web standards) is a much bigger consumer threat than Microsoft's OS tie ins were.

Oh. Windows 11? Hard pass. Like Vista before it.

I've cautiously put Windows 10 IoT LTSC on aging relatives' machines, but I'm not happy about it.

 

[MeXen]

How about someone makes some app or script that overides the updater for more then 7 days so that win10 doesnt try to update to win11 in some sneak forced update or a random BSOD sent by Microsoft

 

[DragonMals]

I do not trust those, the best way is to use a script while installing, even though Microsoft tries so hard to stop it.

The custom isos I can understand but tiny11 with the tiny11builder is proof that its just a stripped down build of windows 11

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My main concern so far is that right clicking doesn't give all the normal options,

You've made it too hard for yourself:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1frq94l/guide_restore_old_rightclick_context_menu_in/

 

[Greninji88]

You've made it too hard for yourself:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1frq94l/guide_restore_old_rightclick_context_menu_in/

I know you need to use registry editor or hold shift when right clicking, but I can't experiment too much on my school laptop, so I don't know the proper pros/cons of windows 11 first hand

 

[DragonMals]

I know you need to use registry editor or hold shift when right clicking, but I can't experiment too much on my school laptop, so I don't know the proper pros/cons of windows 11 first hand

Oh.... also with the added issue of trying to access reddit on a school laptop....

 

[Francie]

So, Windows 10 is officially end of life, as you all know. My laptop from 2012s done well, a couple upgrades and now it's stably running Windows 10. And if course, once I've got it stable, it's OS becomes discontinued. If I try, I'm sure it can run Windows 11 ok, but I'm keeping it at 10. Is the upgrade to Windows 11 worth it in anyone's opinion? Thanks!

it's not worth it in my opinion
I have a gaming PC which now has both Windows 10 and Linux installed in a dual boot configuration
Linux supports everything I want to play except for call of duty which I can simply uninstall
chances are that within the next year, I am going to uninstall Windows entirely and stick with Linux as my main OS
the main thing stopping me right now is that I want to distro hop from Pop OS to Manjaro Xfce because I found out that gnome (the desktop environment deeply integrated into Pop OS) uses JavaScript in its core (like windows 11) which I believe causes too much latency and stuttering for me to handle
will do the hopping whenever I find the time to clear space for backing up the hundreds of gigabytes of stuff that I torrented onto the Linux drive

 

[blindseer]

it's not worth it in my opinion
I have a gaming PC which now has both Windows 10 and Linux installed in a dual boot configuration
Linux supports everything I want to play except for call of duty which I can simply uninstall
chances are that within the next year, I am going to uninstall Windows entirely and stick with Linux as my main OS
the main thing stopping me right now is that I want to distro hop from Pop OS to Manjaro Xfce because I found out that gnome (the desktop environment deeply integrated into Pop OS) uses JavaScript in its core (like windows 11) which I believe causes too much latency and stuttering for me to handle
will do the hopping whenever I find the time to clear space for backing up the hundreds of gigabytes of stuff that I torrented onto the Linux drive

Second the multiboot, I have both Kubuntu and Winblows 11 on my machine, I nearly never even boot into 11 unless there is something that just doesn't run via wine... I'd honestly just dump it entirely but its just taking up space on a second ssd that I'm not using atm...

Linux has come a long ways especially since valve started kicking in with proton (and wine) and with all the crap Microsoft has been shoveling into 11...