Live captions is usefuuuuul.
I’ve liked Windows 11. Hope they don’t degrade it by putting many unneeded ai tools in it.
I honestly think live captions is super useful too. That’s why I use it all the time.
I open my vid in Vlc player then use the Windows live caption feature.
The only thing on that comparison that I like is the snip tool. At least I assume I use the windows one. Nothing else on that list is vital.
So, basically nothing new in Windows 11 that I want and a whole lot of things I don’t.
Don’t you fucking disregard Paint…
NOBODY ignores Paint.
This list genuinely looks like some of the marketing they had around Win7 times. No joke.
Snap? Yep, advertised feature. Touchscreen stuff? Absolutely! Better search? Yeah, advertised (and it was true in Windows 7!). New app to make movies? They got it. I guess the Win 7 page was missing Widgets. That was a Vista feature instead…
I miss Windows 7.
No vertical Taskbar. -1
Horrible multiple monitor support. -1
AI built in. -1
Ads in the start menu. -1
Until this list starts at zero I’m not even remotely interested.
It’s Microsoft. -5
Telemetry everywhere. -5
Upcoming automatic screenshots of your screen on a regular basis! - 1000 (Microsoft Recall)
This is a horrible, horrible software that nobody should run…
Yeah, I’ve already moved most of machines over to various Linux distro because of Windows bloat, spying, ads, etc. For the one windows box I keep, Ameliorated Windows 10 has been treating me pretty well as it seems to strip out most of the crap that keeps getting grafted on to drive shareholder value or whatever.
Not a big Privacy concern, Can you just go turn on recall on the store PC where they sell these?
Many folks have older PCs that won’t run 11. And buying a new PC not high on the list when you’re worried about paying for rent, food, transportation, medicine, etc.
My high end PC from 3 years ago won’t run Windows 11 because of TPM bullshit.
I already switched
…to Linux.
I’m was not allowed to upgrade from them. I’m not going to throw away a perfectly fine pc.
Installed Ubuntu and I’m having a blast.
The main reason I didn’t move to Windows 11 when it was new was it being picky and refusing to install on a processor that was only released two years before the OS (my setup itself being only a year old at the time). Since most things I’ve read about it since then act as a deterrent to upgrading instead of an incentive I now have no real inclination to try and update from 10 until I’m forced to by software requirements.
But why would you upgrade if forced? You know you will have a subpar experience. Is it because of software you use that only runs on Windows?
The software I need on Windows will live on an isolated instance of Windows 10 in a VM on Linux when the time comes that MS stops releasing security updates for 10.
I assume they mean in the long long run when Windows 10 LTSC stops being supported
Sure, but the question still remains…
In my case, I will NEVER upgrade to Windows 11. I’d rather use another OS.
No arguments here Linux gets better every day but I understand why some people still need Windows in their life
How is the performance on a VM? I use Windows for VR and Musicproduction. Like 10%, 20% performance dip?
I don’t know, I still haven’t done this yet!
But my needs might be different from yours. In my case, my music production skills just require an old version of FL Studio. I’m sure it will run fine in a VM.
Yeah, I just upgrades my CPU, and even on my old one everything worked fine.
One more question though: why go the VM route instead of dualbooting? I guess mostly so you still have acces to all Linux stuff while using Windows?
Correct. I just want to remain in Linux. Plus the Windows OS will be unmaintained, so I will never connect it to the internet. So I’d be without Internet meanwhile I’m in the other partition. A VM solves that.
I still retain a Windows install for games, and eventually things stop working easily. I kept running Windows 7 up until around when I built my current PC (2020) and that upgrade was due to some compatibility issue - I can’t remember whether it was hardware compatibility with the new setup or a game/launcher requiring Windows 10 before I upgraded. I expect that I will eventually get something that wants 11 to work.
Mind you I spend a lot less time on games these days and I will probably get a few more years out of that computer - it might be a good while before compatibility/security becomes an issue and I’m required to consider moving on.
Ah Windows 11, Vista 2.0.
Win11 has excellent WSL support. Way better than Win10.
I see you forgot about a gem called “ME”
That needed a trigger warning
Literally just picked up a new laptop and immediately uninstalled windows 11. Drivers will be fiddly but it’s already working fine.
I will never use the privacy ffest that is win 11.
Got my new Thinkpad T14S yesterday and immediately installed Linux Mint. I refuse to give in to the Windows 11 pressure.
Just put Bazzite on my gaming rig. This house only has doors.
