Question I have had nothing but probelm,s with Windows 11 ?

[DreadPilotRoberts]

So to give a little background on my aptitude - I play video games regularly, have always used Tom's Hardware to proof my computer builds, and work from home in digital marketing. I know my work platforms and am highly familiar with the basics of windows, shorcuts and navigating around general issues, but have no background in coding or understanding registries, how drivers work, or anything on the fundamental programming of how computers operate.

Having said that, I have had so many problems with Windows 11 since I was forced to upgrade that I'm actively looking for other options. I've had random driver errors, freezing, sound dropping out in the middle of critical meetings, etc., and I'm fed up with the incompetent product that is Windows 11. If someone under my management went to market with this, I would have fired them immediately for even suggesting to do it.

Is Linux something someone with my background can handle? Do I need a deep understanding of how computers operate to get it up and going? It took me hours to troubleshoot the steps to flashing my BIOS so I could even upgrade to windows (and no, it was not an easy process. There were issues)

Are there other options out there, or has Microsoft squashed any and all PC competition? Is Linux something someone who has 200+ games on Steam can utilize? How messed up am I?

 

[TerryLaze]

Having said that, I have had so many problems with Windows 11 since I was forced to upgrade that I'm actively looking for other options. I've had random driver errors, freezing, sound dropping out in the middle of critical meetings, etc.,

Why where you forced?
How did you upgrade? The issues could come from just not having done it correctly, a clean install often helps.
If the issue is that some hardware has bad drivers or is on its way out than linux isn't going to magically help with that.

You can install bazzite, if you have an AMD GPU, on nvidia you might (will) have issues, bazzite comes with steam pre installed and if you re download any game to an linux partition you can play them, basically if a game is steamdek certified it will be issue free but many others will also run just fine.

If you know how to boot from a usb key then you can install bazzite (or any other linux) just make sure to backup any important files to off-PC just in case you screw something up, if you tell linux to install over your windows partition and you have all your files on there linux will just do it and all your files will be gone.

The trouble is if you need any special app for your work, if all you do is through chrome it will be fine. If your meetings are through some special software then you will have to make sure it exists for linux.

 

[ubuysa]

If you upgraded Windows 10 instead of performing a fully clean install of Windows 11 then that may well be your problem.` I appreciate the desire to avoid having to reconfigure Windows and reinstall everything again, but if you want a stable platform then a clean install is the only way to go.

 

[johnbl]

generally before you update to a new version of windows, you need to install the current motherboard bios, firmware updates and motherboard drivers then update to the new windows.

most of the failures I see are due to bugs exposed in non microsoft components. (bios and third party drivers)

microsoft is pretty cautious about rolling out new features like the new low power saving functions, they wait a year or two before they enable the function by default so people have time to update the bios and drivers. People, rarely do that unless they hit problems. Even then the hardware vendor would rather you buy a new machine after 3 years anyway.

I would not go to Linux for gaming, just too many issues.
I would just suffer and try to fix my windows 11 machine.
Apply the bios, usb firmware, ssd firmware, and driver updates
and see if that helps then try to work the remaining problems one by one. Some problems are hard to figure out.

 

[Ralston18]

No disagreement with the preceding posts.

More information is needed.

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

Include PSU: make, model, wattage, age, condition (original to build, new, refurbished, used)?

Disk drive(s): make, model, capacity, how full?

List of all connected peripherals.

Wired or wireless network?

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Also add more details about the problems. Nature, frequency, pop-ups presented, etc..

You can look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer for error codes, warnings, and even informational events just before or at the time any given problem(s) occur.

Objective simply being to learn what Window's is "seeing" and perhaps being able to identify specific problems and potential fixes.

If much is astray and amiss then a clean Windows 11 install (per @ubuysa ) would be advised.

 

[digitaldata77]

A clean Windows 11 Installation works best in most situations. Make sure you have your motherboard drivers Chipset drivers available for installation. Install all required Windows 11 updates to the OS Before you install applications programs and games. This has worked for my PC builds for 35 yrs+. Just a suggestion. All the Best.

 

[digitaldata77]

Make sure to setup your Drives correctly for the OS. Keep in mind Windows 11 has its issues. No operating system is perfect .