[SOLVED] Is W11 Ready for Prime Time Yet?

[ManOfArc]

My Windows update just informed me that "W11 is out and it's free". Since I would only have 10 days to roll it back to W10, I'm wondering if it is worth it this early in its lifespan to do the upgrade. I would have thought MS would have given 30 days like they did with W7>W10. But it is what it is. So, I am trying to decide if I should upgrade or wait for it to become as stable as W10 is now. Has any one been using W11 for a long period of time yet?

 

[drivinfast247]

What do you need from Win11 that Win10 doesn't have?

 

[hotaru.hino]

I've been using Windows 11 since day 1 and have yet to encounter a single show-stopping issue. Other people will have issues, as can be clearly seen in the forums.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I would have thought MS would have given 30 days like they did with W7>W10. But it is what it is. So, I am trying to decide if I should upgrade or wait for it to become as stable as W10 is now. Has any one been using W11 for a long period of time yet?

Make an image of OS partition and store it in some safe place.
Then you can restore back from saved partition image any time you want. No 10 days limitation.

You can do this with Macrium Reflect.

 

[ManOfArc]

Make an image of OS partition and store it in some safe place.
Then you can restore back from saved partition image any time you want. No 10 days limitation.

You can do this with Macrium Reflect.

Will the W10 key still be valid, tho?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Will the W10 key still be valid, tho?

Yes.

 

[TerryLaze]

Will the W10 key still be valid, tho?

There will be no change of hardware so the key will never even come up, after restoring from the image you will still have a licensed windows.

 

[Colif]

Win 11 is fine, 99% of the programs that worked on 10 will work on 11. If your PC can run it, I don't see point in staying on 10 any longer than you have to. Sure, its not much different to 10 but in a way, that is the point... its so close its an easy step.

Unless I have the start menu in centre of taskbar, its really easy to forget I am on 11 instead of 10. Very little of what I do was changed in the upgrade. I been on it since September and it just feels like windows to me.

 

[SkyNetRising]

There can be some inconveniences, if you have 3rd party antivirus installed.
It may be necessary to uninstall it before upgrade to windows 11 and reinstall afterwards.

Security center link may become broken after upgrade. But you can find fix on internet easy.
Windows 11 looses ribbon menus in file explorer. But those can be restored too with a registry fix.

Other than that upgrade was painless (at least for me).
Everything is working the same as in windows 10.

 

[ManOfArc]

What do you need from Win11 that Win10 doesn't have?

I don't know because I haven't used W11 yet. It may have a special feature I never knew I wanted... like free beer with every update

 

[USAFRet]

Using Win 11 in my daily driver since Christmas, I've seen NO issues, performance or otherwise.

Sure, they moved things around a little. But that takes maybe a day to get used to.

 

[Colif]

like free beer with every update

That might be why they only release a new version once a year, thats a lot of beer to buy

I am still looking for its must have feature. It depends what you expect of an operating system.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I don't know because I haven't used W11 yet. It may have a special feature I never knew I wanted... like free beer with every update

I suggest you look over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11

Also you can install it on a VM if you want to test drive it. I recommend using Virtual Box (they even have a handy guide: https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/install-microsoft-windows-11-on-virtualbox )

 

[TerryLaze]

Also you can install it on a VM if you want to test drive it. I recommend using Virtual Box (they even have a handy guide: https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/install-microsoft-windows-11-on-virtualbox )

VM won't tell the whole story.
You can create a virtual disk from windows disk management install windows there and then add the .vhd to the boot menu using easybcd.
That way it will use all your hardware and you can see if there will be any issues and if you don't like it you can just delete the file just like with an VM.

 

[hotaru.hino]

VM won't tell the whole story.
You can create a virtual disk from windows disk management install windows there and then add the .vhd to the boot menu using easybcd.
That way it will use all your hardware and you can see if there will be any issues and if you don't like it you can just delete the file just like with an VM.

Sure, but the point of using a VM is to see if any of the immediate, user facing features are going to be a problem or not.

I don't care about hardware issues up front, because if I don't like the OS to begin with, they're a moot point.