[SOLVED] Win 11 or 10 for an average PC user today?

[Dimitri001]

It's beginning to look like I might have to reinstall Windows, so, for someone like myself, who all I do is browse the web, I don't play games or do anything particular, which is the better choice today?

Also, two particular questions:

#1 How would 11 run on my old PC?

Athlon II X2 250 3 Ghz
8 GB DDR3
Nvidia GeForce GT 710

#2 Do commonly used programs run fine on 11 (VLC, Winamp...)

 

[hotaru.hino]

You'd have to disable the TPM 2.0 check.

But honestly, stick with Windows 10. There's no compelling reason to jump to Windows 11 yet.

 

[dwd999]

As far as the whole TPM security thing goes, W11 doesn't do anything that you can't do in W10; all you have to do is just turn everything on in W10 and its the same security. MS claims W11 will work better with Alder Lake cpus by better directing which threads are processed by the 2 different sections of an Alder Lake cpu. So until you get an Alder Lake cpu (and the better thread performance is quantified by outside experts) there's really no reason for W11. Since I have a new build from April this year, I've tried W11 using a alternate ssd which I can boot from bios. It doesn't really do anything for me so I'm sticking with W10 for at least another year. There are still a lot of bugs in W11 which won't be worked out for months to come along with a lot of updates.

 

[USAFRet]

It's beginning to look like I might have to reinstall Windows, so, for someone like myself, who all I do is browse the web, I don't play games or do anything particular, which is the better choice today?

Also, two particular questions:

#1 How would 11 run on my old PC?

Athlon II X2 250 3 Ghz
8 GB DDR3
Nvidia GeForce GT 710

#2 Do commonly used programs run fine on 11 (VLC, Winamp...)

For that system, Win 10.

If you have a fully Win 11 compatible system, either.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

I'd run Windows 10 on that system.

 

[SkyNetRising]

which is the better choice today?

I'd stay on windows 7 with that hardware.
WIndows 11 is not supported on Athlon II X2 250.
Windows 10 will struggle on it too.

Get an SSD, if you still don't have one.

 

[Wolfshadw]

I don't see any reason to rush to Win11. Just stick with Win10.

-Wolf sends

 

[hotaru.hino]

I'd stay on windows 7 with that hardware.
WIndows 11 is not supported on Athlon II X2 250.
Windows 10 will struggle on it too.

Get an SSD, if you still don't have one.

If we're going this route, I'd rather throw Linux on there then.

Throwing on an unsupported OS that's connected to the internet isn't the best of ideas.

 

[LeviTech]

Windows 10 at least for now.

 

[joeldf]

Win 10.

Seems we pretty much have a consensus.

Win 11 won't install on that system anyway so there's not much choice. Even if you did all the work-around hacks to get it installed, considering what you say you do with your machine, I wouldn't suggest trying them.