News Windows 11 Version 24H2 updates are faster and require less CPU usage — Microsoft claims up to 45.6% faster installation times and 25% lower CPU ut...

[Admin]

Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 has many underlying optimizations that net users large performance gains when installing future Windows Updates.

Windows 11 Version 24H2 updates are faster and require less CPU usage — Microsoft claims up to 45.6% faster installation times and 25% lower CPU ut... : Read more

 

[RichardtST]

Now with (official, overt, and unabashed) built-in spyware! Let Windows Recall screenshot you while you ... Yeah, it's not just your browser history you have to worry about any more! Switch to linux or give up se.... hmmm....

 

[heffeque]

Yeah... Windows Recall needs to be uninstallable. I wouldn't trust Windows not re-enabling stuff "by accident" as they've done before.

Unless they fix Windows 11 by next year, I might stay on Windows 10 for some time after support is gone... and I'll give Linux a serious thought. I'm definitely not putting up with Windows Recall and the long list of other stuff they haven't fixed yet.

 

[Stomx]

When I read "New Windows became faster..." I'm sure that just the older Windows circa year 2000 or 2002 would be even faster.

Imagine the OS of 22nd century where you have Linux + Windows worlds live simultaneously at the same time in the same place undistinguished without needs to use KVM switches or Virtual Boxes with all their restrictions. In the same window the Linux sees your Windows files and apps, Windows sees your Linux files and apps automatically, your apps magically work and you even do not know where you are in Linux or Windows, everything just works.

That is when you switch to Linux Mint with WINE

 

[DS426]

But how long does it take to upgrade from W11 23H2 to 24H2? Much longer than 22H2 to 23H2 which was an enablement package?

 

[t3t4]

I don't recall the speed of a MS Windows update ever being the main issue!?

Personally I couldn't much care less how long it takes, with newer hardware it's not like the process is going to get any slower. All I care about is what are they going to break next! What new "feature" will they add that I don't want and don't need to my otherwise perfectly working system?

I hate Windows 11.... I literally physically absolutely hate that useless thing!

 

[castl3bravo]

This is where I figure out how to get all games running elsewhere. Recall is probably here to stay so that unfortunately means I’m out. I’ll be relegating Windows11 24H2 to a kvm guest to check things but only if I’m ok with Microsoft “recalling” it.

 

[FoxTread3]

Yeah... Windows Recall needs to be uninstallable. I wouldn't trust Windows not re-enabling stuff "by accident" as they've done before.

Unless they fix Windows 11 by next year, I might stay on Windows 10 for some time after support is gone... and I'll give Linux a serious thought. I'm definitely not putting up with Windows Recall and the long list of other stuff they haven't fixed yet.

October 26, 2024 - Hi. I run Win10 and Win11 Desktop PCs side by side as fully separate systems. No linking or syncing, thank you very much. I use the Win10 machine for my Chrome work, (I also have a Chromebook, that I keep on all of the time. While the Win10 is often on sleep). I use three different browsers on the Win11 machine, which is my gaming machine. While I would like it to be totally free of Chrome/Google. I do have Google Voice installed on one of the browsers because that is the app that I use in place of my cell phone. In any event, I agree with you. The Win10 PC will probably be converted to Linux, and the Win11 machine would be used totally off line, unless Win12 looks like it's worth having. I also have an Apple Mac Mini which helps make me as OS flexible as possible. As Google and Microsoft increasingly treat their customers and users, more and more as their property. More people are going to find other solutions to avoid being "the product", and have more control over the use of Tech products they have purchased, and should be allowed to use as they see fit. My favorite rant is about an LG OLED 55" TV that I purchased, but I can't use the "voice" function on the remote unless I agree to let LG spy on me. I paid for a TV and ALL of its functions. The best Congress money can buy won't do anything about that kind of thing, but hopefully the sometimes overly authoritarian EU will. Stay well😊

 

[punkncat]

I know it is like preaching to the choir, but Recall isn't the only thing keeping track of what you do online. I am not saying I like the idea of it, but my phone and my Alexa speaker are doing a fine job already....

 

[FoxTread3]

October 26, 2024 - Ahh.. Sir. You are in the warm embrace of "convenience", one of the Devil's daughters.. The other being "Syncing". I won't insult your intelligence by making suggestions, but you know what you have to do to rectify "the problem". Personally, Google through Google Voice has for over a ten year period, saved me in the neighborhood of $6000.00 and no spam calls. I give them as few ounces of "flesh" as I can, knowing that I am their "product".. or at least my information is. "If thy left eye offends thee.. pluck it out." Sounds to me like someone in the bible foresaw Alexa.😬 Stay well.😊

 

[DS426]

I don't recall the speed of a MS Windows update ever being the main issue!?

Personally I couldn't much care less how long it takes, with newer hardware it's not like the process is going to get any slower. All I care about is what are they going to break next! What new "feature" will they add that I don't want and don't need to my otherwise perfectly working system?

I hate Windows 11.... I literally physically absolutely hate that useless thing!

Not suggestion speed of feature update from 23H2 to 24H2 being a main issue; I'm just curious how it compares from 22H2 to 23H2 as again, it's been a long time since we haven't had a feature update that wasn't an "enablement package" (besides the upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 itself, which BTW is still is Windows 10 build when you look at the software build level, and indeed Microsoft said it wasn't a whole new kernel as Windows 12 is expected to be).

Plenty of things on W11 sucks for consumers, so the irony is that it's better to get W11 Professional licensing to get access to Group Policy and therefore disable as much B.S. as possible. I've done this on my home PC, which basically just makes it feel like the "latest and greatest gaming PC" without excess tracking, network activity, and so on.

Yes, Linux is the future here. Just is.