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I have upgraded to Windows 11
Elaro
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So far, the only difference is the time font is slightly bigger, it runs slightly faster, and the taskbar thinks it's an Apple product. I have not tested any software except for browsers, which work slightly faster.
How has your Windows 11 treated you?
How has your Windows 11 treated you?
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But I know if I do I’m gonna have to pay out the butt.
But I’m gonna do it soon probably.
Me as soon as it finishes installing: "okay how do I make this look and function exactly like windows '98?"
the one upside is that it's easier to buy a pre-fab computer nowadays than to get a GPU
clamshell is my first DL every time I install windows.
Yeah I’ll be going with a prebuilt machine for sure.
I built the last one and while I’m happy with it the experience was super stressful and took hours so I’m gonna pay up instead.
It's a really small thing, but images I've seen of 11 where it's in the middle of the screen bug the shit out of me.
You can shift all the task icons to the left so the windows button is in the lower corner yeah. Annoyingly you can't move the actual bar, though. I like it vertical, alongside the left of the screen, and they took that away for... some reason, I suppose.
When I worked in a restaurant I'd move the chefs knives around every week! Not sure why they fired me. after all, he was the one yelling.
Same with my office job. I moved the files around all over but people kept complaining 'that they couldn't find shit'. I wrote a note explaining my methods that they could have searched for!
Unsure on MS VR, but my friends are still happily running Steam VR. Only major issue I'm currently aware of is that for some of the more recent AMD Ryzen processors, performance is heavily impacted - though both MS / AMD are working on that issue.
These are Intel/Nvidia so I should be good there. Tempted to just try it out.
HDR support is good
Window arranging is good and gets saved
Monitor placement is good and gets saved even if a screen goes out for a sec
The softer UI elements are more refined than Win 10's dated Metro aesthetic
Windows 11 cons:
Why would you get rid of clocks on secondary screen taskbars?
Why would you hide the main File Manager right click menu behind another mouse click?
Why would you get rid of my taskbar right click you motherf
I just found out this is true today and now i am unreasonably upset about something i couldn't give half a care for before.
Not that I've heard, but even on Win10 you can press win+V to open the clipboard with history.
Why did I never hear about this
Because Windows itself does next to nothing to tell you about its hotkeys.
Another one I think a lot of people don't know is win+. (period) for an emoji keyboard.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is there anything else we don't know about
Win-M, Alt-F4, Tab, Enter.
Win-X menu is also still there.
I can't even say this is like going from Vista to 7. It's more like... putting a third party skin on top of Windows 10 that isn't garbage.
It's pretty non-intrusive, except for those three sticking points I mentioned earlier, and you'll just be off to the races in no time.
Might as well just open Powershell and ignore the UI if MS are so intent on dumbing it down so much...
I have a macro set to win-space to put it to sleep and alt-win-space for shutdown, at least on my work PC.
VIA keyboard software is the best and I need to get a new keyboard that uses it at home.
I think I'll see if my Laptop I bought in 2019 is good enough for this. Seems really weird they have such a weird/strict CPU limit on the OS
What it does is it’s a physical bit of hardware that carries out cryptographic instructions and stores your RSA private key. It's more secure than not having it, and there's no real drawback to enabling it.
Do these checks:
Open Disk Management, right click on the red box and select properties. Click the Volumes tab and see what the partition style is. If it's GPT (Guid Partition Table), you can go right into your BIOS and enable UEFI Boot instead of Legacy Boot. If it's an MBR (Master Boot Record) you need to convert it to GPT.
Open System Information, look for BIOS Mode on the right side. If it's UEFI, you're good. If it's Legacy, we need to switch it in BIOS.
Changing to an enabled TPM won't really be much different than any other setting.
(it involves editing registry files)
Win+shift+S brings up screen snipping in case you work a job where you need to send those a lot. Win+L locks the computer. Those are my big windows key shortcuts.