News Windows 11 at Launch: You Don't Need to Upgrade Yet

[mdd1963]

Just not sure how long I can survive without WIndows 11's new 'centered at bottom only' taskbar , with extra steps now required to get things done as compared to current WIn10's ease of taskbar operation... (Oh, and the ever so slightly rounded window corners are 'must haves'!)

(Oh, and thank goodness for MS's astounding ingenuity at removing the default search window near start, so that now searching for things now requires an extra step or two!) :/

 

[Xajel]

I don't know about others, but I preferred Windows 10 start better, Windows 11 is just too focused on ease of use that it became too complicated for Power users. The start menu can't be customised to suit my needs. And the new menu style while it's good and sleek, it's just much for a power user, just getting used to the Settings App (which is hard considering that even different Windows 10 updates have different settings titles and locations).

I wish MS will give an option per user to select if the user want an Easy or Power style, I still love the old Control Panel, the Windows 10 start, and while the new right-click menu are sleek, hiding most features functionality in a sub-menu is just over..

At the time of Windows 9x/2000/XP it was just few simple clicks to reach a setting or option you want, things wen a little deeper in Windows 7 with the Control Panel categories, but it was very easy to switch to the old categorised style, requiring an extra step. But with Windows 8/10/11 it's way too much clicks just to reach a specific setting. Windows 11 looks to be better, but the more advanced settings are hidden deep in still classic windows, as a power user, this is just plain stupid, you must finish everything before releasing it, especially in a major release version.

MS tries to change the whole OS to be modern but they're doing it the wrong way, sorry the wrong way(s). Because there's so many broken changes and very bad decision. I just feel MS doesn't have any UX employees at all !!

 

[mdd1963]

Disagree. Windows 2000, in my experience, was rock solid from the start because it was so stripped down with a focus on stability.

Loved Windows 2000!

 

[Friesiansam]

I'll be upgrading when 11 is offered to me, hopefully by then any bugs that only surface once there is mass usage, will have been found and fixed. Nothing wrong with W10, it has been as stable as a tripod for me since 2016 but, time to move on and keep up with security improvements.

 

[dc_webster]

Hi there

After using the release version of Win11 for a few days now I am reasonably happy with it. I actually like the simplicity of the centered start menu on my 27" 2K Wide Screen Monitor.

I think they (MS) are getting better at integrating modern UI settings with older methods, but I suppose it's not fully there yet.

As for stability I have not had a single freeze up or BSOD so it seems stable enough. I only had a bit of trouble with the MS Store.

I'm running a Ryzen Zen 3 (12 core) with 64GB 3600DDR4 RAM and it runs just fine and passes all tests.

So far I'm finding Win 11 to be a lot better than Vista or 8 and this is only at launch.

My take on MS Windows versions and how good they were:

Windows 2 - Good but too resource hungry for most PCs (from my somewhat more limited experience with it)
Windows 3.0 - The break through windows. The multitasking was ordinary but given the hardware it had to work with I am not surprised.
Windows 3.1 - Probably the Windows that made the world a Windows one.
Windows 95 - Buggy, but reasonable if you had enough RAM
Windows 98 SE - Excellent - the best 9x version
Windows NT 4 - One of my favorite MS OS's of all time - slim, powerful.
Windows ME - Sh!t house - nice features but the OS was unstable and destroyed itself - terrible.
Windows 2000 Pro - A very high quality business oriented OS that built on Windows NT 4 and added a lot features and polish.
Windows XP - A great synergy of Windows 2000 Pro and Windows 98 (combining the best of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 Professional to make an all in one OS that was more secure and more stable and also more capable with Multimedia and gaming.
Windows Vista (64 Bit) - Sh!thouse when released, but it was a good design - it just wasn't ready to release. SP1 largely fixed it up and it was quite good after that.
Windows 7 (64 Bit) - Built on the refinements made to Windows Vista to produce a faster and stable secure OS
Windows 8/8.1 (64 Bit) - Not bad for my Surface touch screen, but otherwise a mess in trying to make Windows too touch orientated.
Windows 10 (64 Bit) - Probably my second favourite OS to Windows XP. It brought together the best of Vista/7 and previous versions and was fairly rock solid from release
Windows 11 - So far so good. For the moment I am finding the new layouts quite intuitive but time will tell. Seems very stable too!

Thanks for reading.. I guess only time will tell how good Windows 11 turns out to be. I will leave the hardware requirements to others to discuss as it was not my intention to get into them.

 

[kyzarvs]

I take that means Quicklaunch has finally died? That's a real bummer as I really like the rounded 11 look (I never got the W10 less-colours-than-an-Amiga minimalist desktop)
I've used QL since '98SE - all my most-common tools on the taskbar, always in the same screen location ready to go - I open most apps by muscle memory without having to look. One-click to everything. I still don't know how there's any sub-menu system that's going to be more logical or faster...

 

[salgado18]

Many improvements, many regressions that surely will be improved too, but forcing me to use an online account to use a computer is a very hard no. It is not an online service, it is an operating system, so why does it need to be synced to Microsoft servers to use? Some games already force you to be online to play single-player and it's bad, let alone an operating system. Microsoft is trying way too hard to spy on users, so for now, no, thanks.

 

[wifiburger]

and... I'll prob ignore this Windows 11

Had to reinstall windows recently.
I'm already not liking Windows 10 21H1 build, very crap scheduling with my Zen2 3900x. It just schedules threads on all cores regardless of load. I lost my 4.4 4.5 boost for 2,4cores with my Zen2.

Don't have this issue with build 1904 or 2004 and I know Windows 11 scheduler is very similar to 21H1 build.