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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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Dalewyn ◴[] No.35325272[source]
As a power user, upgrading to Windows 11 is great if your hardware meets sysreqs.

Why? Because of all the numerous and significant backend improvements, a relatively less schizophrenic UI, and more.

Certain things that affect power users and common users alike, such as proper Intel 12th+ Gen CPU support and variable refresh rates, are Windows 11 exclusive, not being backported to Windows 10 (let alone 7).

To be clear, I have my fair share of gripes with Windows 11 that I've worked around. But overall it's an easy upgrade over Windows 10.

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IIsi50MHz ◴[] No.35335405[source]
Thanks! This is the first I've read of any Win11 features that aren't just 'features'. All the articles and marketing stuffs make it seem the same as the last to major versions of macOS:

"Look at all these new features we have! (…that are so minor or quizzically irrelevant that you'll wonder why this is a whole version number upgrade instead of a .1 release).

Oh, and we rearranged a bunch of stuff into weird, often obscure, places with no justification, but we're calling those features, too!".

So, now at least I have some things to look up, even if I intend to skip Win11 for other reasons.

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1. Dalewyn ◴[] No.35336595[source]
To be fair, Windows 11 internally identifies as NT10.0, the same as Windows 10's internal identification.

So officially, Windows 11 is just Windows 10 with new icing on top, but there are nonetheless significant changes and improvements behind-the-scenes that may or may not merit a marketing version number increase.