Comment on Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News

• orclev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows 11 adds nothing good to 10, and introduces a bunch of highly anti-consumer features that are difficult if not impossible to disable. There’s absolutely no good reason to “upgrade” to 11 if you already have 10.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To reach their own. I don’t give a hoot about the features in Windows, as long as it runs my games. And I like the look of Windows 11 more than I do 10. So that’s good enough for me. It doesn’t affect me more than the aesthetics. To me it’s an upgrade.

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  • whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until the Windows 10 eol at least. Man I don’t want 14.10.25 to come

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Meh, OS’s don’t die at EOL. There are thousands, if not millions, of machines running Win2k that simply can’t be upgraded because they run industry systems.

      And before anyone cries about security - if you’re relying on the OS for your security you’re ignoring everything else (the other layers) that are required… You’re doing it wrong.

      There are thousands (tens of thousands?) of Win2k machines that can’t be upgraded because they drive industry systems. Hell, there’s Win95 machines doing the same. Their security is ensured by incorporating layers of control… As should be done with any system, commensurate with it’s risk and criticality.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are also forgetting millions of consumers still running Windows XP or 7 and not upgrading not because something critical depends on it, but because “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.

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      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If there are exploitable remote execution attacks at the OS level that’s a pretty big hole to fill in with additional measures. Anything short of totally isolated would be a risk imo.

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• Robin@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Windows 11 isn’t bad. But it’s a sidegrade from 10. For example, I have an ultrawide HDR display and 11 is a must for HDR. But the damn start bar can’t move to the left anymore which is super annoying on an ultrawide.

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  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn't they make it so you could put start back on the left? I'm 99% sure computers at work have done it.

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    • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think they mean put it vertically on the left side of the screen, not left align the icons on the bottom of the taskbar.

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      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah I see.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me Windows 11 gets me about 30 minutes to an hour better battery life than 10. That doesn’t sound like much, but going from 2 to almost 3 is pretty big improvement.

    Now that devs finally updated their programs to show up in the new right click menu it’s not obnoxious anymore, and unlike a bloated 10 install doesn’t take 10 years to open.

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  • ElusiveClarity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t tried it yet so I can’t vouch for it but I’ve read good things about a software called Explorer Patcher that can fix a lot of the W11 garbage.

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    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Explorer Patcher just straight gives you the Windows 10 UI but it’s had a lot of stability issues especially as new builds of Windows roll out.

      There are some other alternatives like Open Shell which is free and can give more of an XP, Vista, or Win7 style start menu. Then there’s paid options which are a little more polished like StartAllBack and Start11.

      On the other hand if the only thing that bothers you is the context menu changes there are a couple of things you can do. You can edit a registry key to just get the old context menu. Or you can use Context Menu for Windows 11 to add your own context menu entries for applications where the developers won’t include the “new” method to register their shell extensions. (It’s been around since Windows 7 IIRC, but has no advantages over the old method until 11.)

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