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oliwarner ◴[] No.35323842[source]
I left Windows in a hail of Vista bugs, over a decade ago. I've seen it get worse and worse in that time, both in UX rot and anti-consumer "features".

I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

Not here to eulogize over what I moved to, but I think it's important people consider why they're still using Windows. It's not your friend.

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pizza234 ◴[] No.35324395[source]
> I'm almost impressed with what people willingly put up with.

I had, in a sense, the opposite experience.

I was discussing in a social circle of mine the reasons why one should avoid as much as possible the upgrade to Windows 11... and I completely failed to persuade anybody.

Non-power users use a very limited subset of O/S functionalities (I'd say that as long as device and applicative support is sufficient, the O/S is essentially transparent to them), so, from their perspective, all those ideological and "weakly concrete" motivations are essentially pointless.

I definitely bothers me ideologically because this is a large scale covert assault (and it will have long term effects), but sadly, to non-power users, it's completely irrelevant.

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Zurrrrr ◴[] No.35326928[source]
Every non-power user I've seen actively really likes 11. It's baffling to me, I don't see how it doesn't get in the way more.
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revelio ◴[] No.35332793[source]
I prefer it. One reason is simply that MS haven't been fixing bugs in Win10 for a long time now, so Win11 is meaningfully less buggy and more consistent.
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1. Zurrrrr ◴[] No.35332963[source]
Everything I've heard makes 11 sound worse, from the new start bar, from things being rewritten but not everything so it's a horrible mix of old and new, features missing for no reason, telemetry, all kinds of horrible things.

10 at least with the way I customized it is entirely stable and I'm not aware of any bugs that affect my workflow at all.