Windows 11 is just a blatant Chrome OS ripoff. They didn't "develop" anything, they are just trying to look like Chrome Books, so noobs will buy it.

No man, MS people know selling OS is not as profitable as selling user data. Without the account-based activities or the browser, MS will lose every battle with google.

Maybe the result of diversity hiring? We'll never know.

Who are the people on the insider program and what do they do that would make them think this is better

Wouldnt be surprised if MS has been infiltrated by Mac fanboys

yeah, despite lesser security, windows 7 was awesome

Still using it thx to modders

Long live Windows Media Center

I am still in wind 7, a good antivirus, and no more porn sites. So far, so good.

@@macblink I've been hearing the cries of lessened security in Windows 7 for what is now more than 2 years and, let's try to be logical on this, the argument does not make sense W7 was actively updated for over 10 years. Any security holes have been locked down tighter than Fort Knox, and any hole they missed is something they had no intention of patching out and therefore probably also still exists in more recent versions of Windows and/or was intentionally introduced to create a vulnerability (which being Microsoft I can easily imagine them doing) so, less security? Compared to what?

Agreed, I call it nightmare 11 hate it so much

it seems like "every other" version of windows is good... Windows 2000.. yes... Windows me.. NO.. windows XP.. yes ... Windows Vista.. NO.. windows 7.. yes... Windows 8.... NO.. windows 10.... yes... windows 11... NO (btw i actually loved 8 and 10 tablet mode but i had a tablet pc so)

but but, the numbers says you all love phones

@@thebeatles9 WIn10 is honestly NO as well

@@thebeatles9 i still use windows me in on of my vintage pc, its my fastest booting pc and this thing is way more reliable for me than win98se, windows 2000 came in the same time than me

@@mmoarchives2542 "dont you guys have phones?"

One software to rule them all lmao, aka touch screens and tablets ect

Yeh I loved Windows 7 I hated being forced off of it and now soon we will be forced again........ffs I thought it was me paying for my equipment and I thought I owned it but apparently not lol

Yes I agree. Which is why I'm still using it. Will move to linux before I go to Windows 11.

trying to make it more touch friendly for tablets i think is the way to go,because everything is become just more mobile,just need to trim it down and remove the bloatware ,most people will install the popular apps if need be,not to be forced to have it

Yes, windows 7 and windows 10 were the best. In my experience, Windows 10 is the most stable Windows I used, But windows 7 looks better. My unpopular opinion will be to bring back the old shutdown/restart style from windows XP. Much easier to see imo.

Linux sucks. It is only good for programming

Exactly!

Well i think you fail to realize for one that Windows 10 and 11 were free for the first time. and if you forgot EVERY version of windows came with BS bloat and adverts like Microsoft office icons that were just shortcuts to install the programs that you had to pay extra for. it's always funny the reluctance to change. In the Tech industry change never stops. Yes 11 has some really stupid crap in it but the start menu because of what they have done to it since windows 7 it's become nothing more then a search bar for everything . the icons in the menu pointless completley.

Most of the UI designers at Microsoft use macOS.

@@KShedTech Change in the tech industry is why we’re going to see companies like Microsoft lose their way and become irrelevant like Facebook and the “Metaverse” soon will be. You can only optimize so much and at some point all you’re doing is moving backwards.

to be honest, i like the design of Windows 11, so i upgraded my pc to windows 11. im happy with it for now but they'll never become a MacOS if they continue making these types of windows versions. honestly, they stole much from MacOS, im not trying to be rude to Microsoft, i really like the work that they do, but Windows 11 is not a Windows version for me, they tried changing the Windows with windows 8 but they were unsuccessful, i don't know why are they trying to do that again. the reason why i downloaded Windows 11 is my familiarity with MacOS design, but yea if you like Windows's style this version is clearly not for you.

That was one of my complaints, plus how Windows gradually made changes to the OS behavior that became more authoritarian. Win10, for instance, would not allow me to control updates the way I wanted them. Some things were made more difficult. Now, my favorite (Win7) can't be authenticated on my new PC, so I'm off to Linux -- the land of freedom and productivity.

@@RodMartinJr Compared to Windows 10, windows 7 just seemed better organized too. I could easily get to for example the devices and printers in 2 clicks, without searching! Also safe mode was easier to use. I am still confused why they made safe mode harder to use. I just don't get that.

@@jackkraken3888 I think it's blind certainty. When some kinds of people become certain they have the "right" answer, they stop looking. Thomas Sowell called them the "anointed" -- those with the "unconstrained vision" of the world (and he was not being kind). I, too, was not being kind in my book, *_Dumb Geniuses: How intelligence is sometimes its own worst enemy_* (hardcover, paperback, ebook)

I actually think it's the controller problem with consoles. So the NES had 8 buttons, and a ton of people found that easy and comforting, and they complained when it became over 16, but games have to do more things than they did at first and so does Windows. For instance, OG Windows didn't have to work nearly identically on several different classes of computer systems.

@@jackkraken3888 it was. UI-wise, Windows 7 was the sweet spot. Not that certain things in Win10 and 11 aren't pretty. but overall, they are just... plainer. More "white box" and boring. More "samey". Which sounds odd to say as every fresh install of any Windows version looks identical to all the other fresh copies of that version. But still, Windows 7 had character and configurability You could really make it your own, and after 10+ years of support, it worked fantastically. Because of all this, and despite it still being very firmly grounded in the 32 bit world, it was and is still the all time most popular version of Windows, ever. Everything since then has been a disappointment.

I've been playing with the developer preview and I plan to do a video on it soon. Many of those things have been changed. You can now group icons and some of the task bas functionality has been restored.

...exactly my thoughts.

XP was the best...

I dont even like 10, i used all the time in my moms notebook and i fucking hate it and 11 seems to be more of the same or worse.

same. Only upgraded to 10 a few months ago and it was a real game changed. problem is i had to buy a new laptop which has window 11... why did they change everything that was great about 10?

glad you caught that. Microdick basically wants to rifle through your pockets, sell your info and force feed you porkaganda. I'm not putting up with it, I hope nobody else is either. We need to send Microdick the same message we sent them when they tried to cram touchscreen down our throats.

@Jack Sparrow nah, we'll stick to our OS and pre-built PC'S and screw hackintosh

@Jack Sparrow When you think Windows can't get any worse, there's always Mac OS to surprise you how garbage an OS can get.

@@rumble1925 I had to use Mac at College and the floating windows thing I found very confusing. Like they wouldn't dock to full-screen and it seemed to be arbitrary which toolbar was active. Quite alien to me. Also having the file saving incompatibility issue with my home PC.

@@rumble1925 What do you think makes mac os better is it the lack of support for most application/games or is it just the limitation in the OS itself?

@@rumble1925 Professional use Windows and Linux.

Along with, please use your windows live creds to login to windows.

Yep. Not sure why everyone's mind jumps to only money rather than control.

I really think people forgot the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabllity. I get and and I know it sucks but im pretty sure thats the cutoff going by the dates of the CPUs on that list. Maybe they just dont want to support CPUs that are easily exploitable without software patches. Windows live creds to login to windows though that's dumb and dont get it.

@@mastert2990 I gave them benefit of the doubt too but they are a trillion dollar industry in charge of half the computer industry and they can make up anything in order to gain more control.

you dont need new CPU, you need little encryption chip, you can literally buy from amazon

He said that he doesn't like the stringent hardware requirements for win11. I do, it means I won't have to deal with the sneaky forced upgrade crap we had to deal with for win8. I won't be upgrading until I get a new pc, so probably like 4yrs from now.

@@morgan5941 By then Win 12 will be out which will fix all the "issues" which Win 11 has created - You do know that only alternate versions of MS products are any good 😂

You shouldn't be bitching. Instead, thank microsoft - it just gave you another (like it's needed) reason to switch to Linux.

my machines run linux just fine however. and they dont sell my information, force my machine to call home, require an account to install the os, update changes i do not want, its not prone to viruses, and the list goes on. all my steam games run great under proton. its been win win. kubuntu and zorin os are good options, but there are many others you can watch on yt and try.

@@gracepierce1024 Correction: NO-WIN[dows] win.

would you outsource your process, as i have an IT biz too in India

Hey Jeff you hit it out the park. I am unhappy with this upgrade and looking to uninstall windows 11.

I am uploading to windows 11 right now

@@FunAngelo2005 good for you. It's the same exact thing just a bit prettier.

@@xLightcrystalx ok

They'll make a windows 11.1 just like they did with 8.

Wait!!. If Windows 10 works for you don't upgrade!!!. If something works don't touched, leave like this.

With Linux Mint you hardly have to do anything that requires you to hit those books when it comes just to basic use.

@@lindenreaper8683 Depends on the distro. All of your family uses Mint?

I work in It for 25 years, always microsoft minded. Now I use Linux Pop OS for most of my work. Give it a try, it works really smooth and looks real nice out of the box.

You can use Windows until 2025, but when a system is upgraded to Win 11, you really only have 11 days to decide if you want to revert it back. I reverted mine back once in January, but went back to Win 11 for I like the idea of ap support which has been wanted for years on PC, but I often have a case of disappearing task bar icons like browser icon preventing me from going back into it which is frustrating. Windows 10 was the very best version and 11 seems a bit off for I'm a bit confused that icons sometimes disappear and you can't personalize as much as you might like to on layout for I've tried already a few weeks ago.

​ @Linden Reaper Until things go wrong (your erstwhile know-how and years of experience sussing out and resolving problems, simply just knowing what and how, are not translatable/applicable). I know full-well Linux is and always has been the superior (Linux's shortcomings are a woeful lack of, until recently, software developer interest/support. Proprietary in particular); however, it even still is truly not for everyone. It's all well and good... until you encounter the uncommon issue... and find the user-to-user help base is much, much smaller than with Windows. When help's slow to come, if at all... you're well and truly it, as in the buck stops with you, when that happens. I am not looking forward to it, being in that hot seat (household admin; plex server too; now grateful I am not in IT professionally. I am no longer enjoying it, definitively since 10, truth be told. Never been more exhausted. 10's environment is like fighting quicksand, the whole time). Add to this, it isn't truly a mere change in OS but nearly the entire software 'ecosystem' too (predominantly inferior alts to Office, Adobe, so on; no offense to anyone intended, but that's true). Windows I know how to fix, no problem. But even for me it's now way too far gone (11's my worst nightmare: a mix of Vista and 8)... and I just don't know if I can actually successfully administrate/maintain Linux. (Damn M$ for all this). To my mind it's rather like if somebody only knows how to drive automatic and yet finds themselves having to operate a manual semi... (yes, I do see that Linux has gotten better, a lot; but still). >_

Don't worry, enough tools will be available. I run on Win 10 and haven't tested the features of the new version Winaero (free/open source) That let's you pick options and settings that were removed from either XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8. Another tool is called Windows Tweaker 5 for Win 11. What you otherwise could use, for the time being or longer when you like it, is enable a sort God Mode. You will have all the settings in 1 place. You have to make a file without an extension and it will change to have the Control Panel icon. But I will post those steps in another comment, often UKposts removes longer comments for spam alert I guess. 1/2

GodMode is a special folder in Windows that gives you quick access to over 200 tools and settings that are normally tucked away in the Control Panel and other windows and menus. Once enabled, GodMode lets you do all sorts of things, like quickly open the built-in disk defragmenter, view event logs, access Device Manager, add Bluetooth devices, format disk partitions, change display settings, update drivers, open Task Manager, adjust your mouse settings, show or hide file extensions, change font settings, rename the computer, and a lot more. The way GodMode works is actually very simple: just name an empty folder on your computer as outlined below, and then instantly, the folder will turn into a super-handy place to change all sorts of Windows settings.

To do this, right-click or tap-and-hold on any empty space in any folder in Windows, and choose New > Folder. You need to make a new folder. not just use an existing folder that already has files and folders in it. If you proceed to Step 2 using a folder that already has data in it, all of those files will instantly become hidden, and while GodMode will work, your files will not be accessible. When asked to name the folder, copy and paste this into that text box and then click away or press Enter: God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Done. 3/3 Just be careful of course.

Actually, Control Panel is still there. Try typing it into the search bar.

It's still there, hit windows key + R (this opens the run box), type in control and hit enter. When control panel opens click "View by" (top right) and select small icons. Done. This is for Windows 10 and 11. Cheers.

I agree. It's the little things about Windows 11, but crucially those little things have a big effect on work productivity. My hope is that they will fix these issues at least in an update soon, then I'll happily upgrade. My ancient PC is unsupported but it's easy to bypass it and install!

I have one windows 10 comp and another running windows 11 and 10 is easily better. I've given 11 enough time to get used to it so I don't think it's bias to say that. Everything just feels more easily accesible in 10.

I would disagree to say Win11 is a bad OS. I think it's one of the best OSs I have used maybe after Win7. Yes it has quirks but it is definitely the biggest and best step in the right direction for Windows.

@@andrewmanyore9913 I mean it's a matter of preference at the end of the day. I prefer 10 to 7 personally. Though seven was pretty good imo.

@@andrewmanyore9913 Name literally one improvement

I didn't even realize that was back. I may have to do a video on it. Thanks for the heads up.

Slogan used to be "Where Do You Want To Go Today?" Now, it's ""What App do you want to download today?"

@@kiillabytez When I was 15 years old I stood in line, at midnight, at a computer store (can't remember which one, it shut down about 15 years ago) to buy Windows 95. That was probably peak Windows. It's been downhill ever since, and Windows is absolutely intolerable for me at work where literally everything I do runs on Linux. I probably spend 30% of my time trying to clean up after developers who are forced to use Windows when the end result always runs on Linux. Anyway, enough of my problems! Take care, buddy!

@@elcasey You must be thinking CompUSA. It was my got to store for quality PC parts at a bargain. Man, I miss that store.

So then you must be a Linux user like me? I started with Linux just late last year. After Apple //e, Macintosh Performa 600CD, Mac mini, Mac mini minus the optical drive which I had to add as a USB device, now a former decade-old Windows 7 PC mini-tower switched over to Linux. Maybe I am finally defecting from artsy-fartsy Leftist Apple. I never was impressed with Apple's over-hyped and overpriced mobile products. Still not quite past the "Why can't my Linux do stuff like Mac OS did so well?"

@@kiillabytez It was indeed CompUSA! Thanks for jogging my memory, that is really bringing it all back! We also had a local software store throughout the 80s and 90s, they did "midnight runs" as well. Fun times as a kid growing up!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

after all these years, they sure are.

"Every other version" sounds catchy as a joke, but it's far from the truth. I have zero experience with the first or second ever Windows OS but... Windows 3.1/3.11 was great. Then came Windows 95, which also was great. Then came Windows 98, which was great, at least around the second edition era. Then Windows Me sucked. Windows 2000 followed, which was great. After that, Windows XP, which is arguably the best. Windows Vista sucked. Then Windows 7 came and was great. Windows 8/8.1 was really bad, but then came Windows 10 and grew from tollerable to good after a while. Now Windows 11 is here and is said to suck too. Windows 11 aside (too early to tell, Windows 10 sucked in it's infancy aswell), Microsoft evidently has a better track-record than "every other version". You've got Windows Me, Vista, and Windows 8. That's only 3 bad ones out of 10 (if we don't count the server and NT versions, and each did their respective jobs very well for their time - which would add even more to the good side total of windows releases). That is the actual truth.

@@simplytough *Wooosh*

What about 8 and 9?

true... even linux is a pain, every freaken time you want to adjust a setting "ENTER YOUR PASSWORD" for fuck sake what's the lockscreen for if the OS is paranoid you got kidnapped by an intruder before being able to lock the screen... it just keeps asking to enter your password "just in case"

Yes, the operating system used to serve us and not the other way around.

It's a toss up which was worse, ME or Vista. I hated both with a passion.

@@justmeiniowa The first computer I got at 12 years old, which I wanted more than anything in the world, was a 1.0 Ghz Intel Celeron with windows ME on it. I loved that computer. I combed through every setting and optimization with great joy and actually made that thing run great. I resisted upgrading to XP for like a year after having access to it just because everything ran great and I knew exactly how to work and squeeze every drop of performance out of that system. For me, when it finally happened, XP was more of a visual upgrade because I liked how everything looked smooth and round in it. I didn't notice much of a difference in performance until I combed through all of XP's settings and optimized it for peak performance like I had done with ME. I hated Vista with a passion because most of the computers I fixed for people back then had vista on them and that was a giant paint in my ass to work with. Making those Vista machines run anything above "just barely ok" was near impossible. I'll take a windows ME over a Vista ANYDAY...

@@justmeiniowa nothing wrong with vista. People who say that are usually xp fanatics. I used vista for five years the only thing I had a problem with was the creative sound blaster drivers gave me errors.

Vista gave me constant headaches ME can be fixed by running Norton WinDoctor once and enjoying the OS

@@sw1000xg XP was horrible tbh. Vista & win 7 were great combination of looks and usability.

WIN7 is the best MS will ever make.

Well, not really free, but I agree with the rest of your points. Windows XP is another honorable mention for its fun and familiar user interface and the snappiness. Nowadays I wouldn't use Windows 7 anymore if it's connected to the internet, though. Not unless you know what you're doing, anyways-using some kind of ad blocker, finding a way to install the newest security updates normally only used by paid customers etc. If somehow there's a version of Windows 7 with all the security updates of Windows 10/11, that would've been the ultimate option.

Nope...Win 7 is too heavy...good for corporate usage...not so much for personal. Windows 8.1 was a great stepforward for personal use...then Win 10 and now Win 11. I still have a machine (now retired), single core VIA processor 1GHz using just 1 Giga DDR2 RAM running Win 8.1. (for 2 years it was my Headless Torrent Box and Personal File Server). My only complain about Win 11 is, as the video has shown...the huge amount of bugs. No quite big bugs...but lots of small (and irritating) ones...but M$ is fixing them day by day.

XP just due to market share at the time and how long it lasted

you cant use it till you die no support just use it till your computer doesnt work and then when you get a new one...install linux

LOL Im still using 7 on purpose. All the others were so bad I said screw it and went back to what I like.

@@138NastyNate Agreed. I still use Windows 7 Vista and XP.

@SMGJohn: windows 11 is more of a lamens OS because businesses normally buy refurbished Dell desktop wholesale not laptops because businesses care about profit. I don't feel that business will ever use windows 11 because ethier windows 12 is available for older PC or Linux can has windows 11 support in 🍷.

@@gotsm9959 Businesses are forced to upgrade once Windows reaches its end of cycle life, they cannot risk having old stuff running. But yes you are in large parts right, they will avoid upgrading wherever possible, I seen Windows 3.1 still run in the fucking bank as of 2022 because they are too greedy to upgrade it LOL, but again, if it works, it works, only downside is, having W3.1 connected to the internet, not the most brilliant idea.

@@SMGJohn Well business don't have to run windows they can use Linux and some new company like banks have only make consumer software for iPads for things like HRD checking .

They wont get invited to free buffet launch parties if they stated the truth..

XP... check! WinVista?... Yuck! Win7... check! Win8... Yuck! Win10?... Yuck! Heck. I like MS DOS better than most of their Windows products. Now that I'm unable to authenticate my perfectly legal Win7 on my new hardware, I'm waving Bye-Bye to Microsoft and hello Linux.

@@RodMartinJr Crack it

@@rengurenge Details? I've seen a dozen "cracking" methods. So far, either they didn't work or seemed too risky (virus potential -- "disable your firewall and connect to a server in China," for instance; LOL!).

ms won't give you years - it will make sure that 10 is obsolete.

I loved windows XP pro wish they would bring it back with the PC I have now there would be fun to be had by me

Not many XP era computers supported 64 bit version. XP had a strong long run but the newer apps and games these days require everyone to atleast have 7. It felt like a big loss at first when many app developers dropped support for XP but I hope we never need to go past 7.

Yeah man, exactly! I just wrote the same, more or less and was afraid I’d be the only one 😂👍

XP was indeed the pinnacle. All they've done since is incrementally make everything more difficult for the user. I guess they have to change things to justify their existence and paychecks? As someone whose job it is to design usable software I have to say that Windows gets further from being intuitive with every new release.

and tons of viruses

Yea win 7 was definitely Windows' peak. And before that it was XP. This video may be about 11, but I still really don't like using windows 10 either, even after like 2 years of doing so. So many less-functional menus, more clicks to get to places, more advanced functionality and settings are harder to get to, the look feels hard and too minimalistic opposed to 7's soft and nicely clean look, etc. If this continues windows is going to eventually design itself out of it's majority market share.

xD Well fucking said! xD

I agree. Personally, XP was my favorite, but 7 wasn't bad. Microsoft has aggressively removed or obfuscated features that I routinely find myself wanting to use. Got an old projector that has an HDMI port but doesn't use an HDMI resolution? Then there's the issue of removing customization features.. I mean, someone who is completely new to using computers but is familiar with phones may have an easier time learning the system, but those of us who are power users are being pushed away.

@@kittenisageek I'm somewhere in between a power and casual user. XP was a bit too complicated for my liking. 7 was spot on for me. But XP was the best before 7. After that it's all been downhill. The only reason I switched to 10 was because my motherboard/cpu upgrade didn't accept 7. The excuse was/is that the chipset doesn't properly work with 7, but that's bullshit. As there have been people that unlocked them to make 7 work just fine. So yea, microsoft basically forces people to get the new windows these days, by arbitrarily making newer motherboards/cpus lock out older ones...

How are you struggling to write text? I‘ve been writing A LOT of text on W11 without any issues. What does the OS matter once you open Word?

Been on Windows 7 and used windows 10 on a friends computer, worst experience i've had on a computer, and never upgraded. Windows 7 now complains to me at least twice a day to upgrade, or that my veesion is "no longer supported", and I will happily endure that, so long as I don't have to deal with the hassle that is downgrading to Windows 10+. I'm switching to linux the moment windows 7 decides to brick itself. Without even going into the amount of annoying oversight that microsoft tries to have these days, (to say nothing of the spyware they shovel into the OS) Microsoft is evolving backwards, and I have no intention of following them. Windows had a _near_ perfect balance of user control around 7, and they decided to throw it all out the window.

Don’t give them the “woke” excuse. Bad design decisions are bad design decisions.

I am a Linux elementary newbie since late last year, coming from Mac OS. Slowly getting used to it.

@@vla1ne _throw it all out the window_ ? I often call it MyCrud$oft Windoze. I am moving from Macintosh to Linux elementary running on a former Windows 7 PC. Would Mint or Pop OS have been better?

@@yosefmacgruber1920 i forgot about mint and pop. Gonna have to give those aa second look later.

So, if we don't have the requirements on our system, do we have to update to Windows 11? Will my Windows 10 get any more updates

Ya, half the settings and shit is still straight from Windows 2000. It's pathetic. If they're going to overhaul the look of the OS, don't half ass it and only do 1/2 of the UI.

@@oldwoman1592 Microsoft will continue to support Windows 10 with security updates until October 14, 2025.

Yeah I agree. That bothers me more than anything.

100% Agree, I use old context menu a lot in explorer, and the need to click show more options is dumb. I also use WinRar occasionally so more annoying than ever lol

I've stuck with XP.

A lot of the things he talks about are being addressed in the Windows 11 Insider builds (like the browser setting issue and the task bar icons/recommendations). I'd say give it a year or so and it should be fine to upgrade.

you forgot vista and 8.1

There are a few Linux distros that have the same functionality and are much more stable than Windows. You can always use a Windows emulator if it's software that is Windows only.

@@luci-fer250 I waited a while to get vista and never had any issues with it. It was only the fools that rushed in first that had problems and the next version of windows after vista was for all practical purposes vista rebranded.

@Pale O'Pterix XP worked, but the bubbly colorful design was painful to look at. Luckily you could deflate it to the older, more neat design.

@Pale O'Pterix Yep. I've kept my all windows as classic as I could. Sharp edges, light blue title bars, ...

I'm still rocking Windows 7.....love it

XP with all programs running as admin by default was a bit insecure, I think.

So, what happens when Win 10 is retired? Will everyone be forced to use whatever Microsoft has available at that time?

@@whyyeseyec I'm afraid so. It will be similar to when people were hanging on to Windows 7 till the very end and then everybody went to Windows 10.

Of course by that time the free upgrade offer from MS will expire.

@@whyyeseyecthen i will use linux

@@telocho I upgraded from 7 to 11 with the same product ID, skipping 8 and 10 on a laptop that needed to be repaired.

So, preview? works for me. just hover over the icon and you get a visual break out of every window that you can use to easily pick the one you want while not cluttering your taskbar.

@@TheOneTonHammer It takes 2s before popup appears. That's slow and time is money

@@TopCarsTV I guess it depends on how often you use this feature. I use it maybe once a week. For me that works out to about 90 seconds a year? I think I can handle that.

@@TheOneTonHammer How do I benefit from the fact it works for you? It doesn't work for me. I don't want idiotic groupped icons, delays, hovers or animations. I want bars with labels, separated, because it used to be that way for about 30 years. I get that some people might like it, but why isn't this an option? OS is a layer between hardware and apps, I don't want it to force me into workflows I'm not familiar with or interested in.

@@hovnocuc4551 remember, taskbar grouping when the bar wasn’t full only appeared in windows 7, ELEVEN years ago, not 30. I’m not trying to convince you of anything. It doesn’t bother me if there is a feature you don’t like. It just seems a juvenile reason to write off an entire release of an operating system for. 🤷‍♂️ you do you, boo.

my first windows os was windows 98

@@luci-fer250 bring back 98SE

@@bettysteve322716 that was my second one

Why hate on 8? Just because it disables your wifi every time it sleeps doesn't make it a trash OS. 😂 I have also been using M$ since 3.1 and, well, it is as the WinDixie grocery stores jingle says, ".. Getting Better all the Time".

10 was an odd man out version for me after the upgrade (relative to 8) that was 8.1 (which for my money may as well be 9). 10 is slow, obtrusive to power users, loaded with spyware, and not actually having any features that new software would actually need outside of DX12 (which makes software actually requiring it largely a matter of vendor lockouts. For example, if you just edit the minimum version number in one of the installation files, you can put the latest Adobe AfterEffects and Premiere on a W7 machine). 11 seems somehow even worse than 10, looking like a hollywood version of a user-friendly computer. Does it even give you fullscreen in games? The commercials all show the start bar in what should be fullscreen applications

I remember and miss when computers had a steep but rewarding learning curve. Now it’s just pure “less is less and people will still buy it” garbage that even Pokémon is doing.

this is literally what i just said.. windows 95 made sense.. what the heck is any of this new stuff? its all over the place.. oh you want to adjust your reolution well thats over here.. you want to change your screen colors well thats over in this other category.. you want to adjust your frame rate well thats over here.. you want a screen saver? that doesnt exist..

improving is never a word I would use to describe anything mircosoft does.

Just install Linux Mint. It comes with Libre Office and Firefox. Everything is dead simple. Mint feels a lot like Windows XP. Mint is completely free. However, Linux gets frustrating as heck if you try to game, stream or install proprietary software.

They have to change it so they can pretend like they have not been selling the same OS for 30 years. Arbitrary changes to the UI is how they make you think it is new. That's why I like Linux. Gnome pissing you off try cinnamon. It is unlikely on Linux that there is not a desktop environment that is not to your liking

Windows 11 was eating away my CPU!

You'll only need to try Zorin once

If you're the IT manager, why not just not install the bloatware? It doesn't force you to use a Microsoft account. Perhaps it did at one point (?). However, if I were in your position, I'd probably want to use LTSC instead, so the normal release cycles would be irrelevant.

In a work environment where they are employing even an IT manager, they should use win11 professional and not home anyway. Multiple reasons, including central management options on installed sw, azure to access central infrastructure like network printers, etc.

You dont have to use microsoft account except if you are using enterprise edition (which is normal, thats windows of your work or school). Context menu is same if you click more options. I use pc for different tasks (photo editing, gaming, education, programming) and i did not find anything which is missing on win 11, that existed on win 10.

That was my favourite OS. It was extremely intuitive.

I grew up with XP and I miss it sorely. I, you and others I'm sure, would rather stick with Windows 7 than 10 or 11. Windows 7 looked beautiful, 10 and 11, bland, boring and lazy. I am moving into Linux, I suggest you do the same as well. I do not use windows as often as I used to. I recommend Linux Mint with the Cinnamon Desktop Environment which reminds me of Windows 7. XFCE and MATE Desktops remind me more of XP, I bet to some it reminds them of Windows 95 and 98. You have a bit of learning to do with Linux but you will have fun. Which reminds me of when using Windows XP to 7 was fun.

@@khehlentlemeza1922 A time when Windows was good.

If you let me know which acronyms I use that you don't understand you can definitely ask and I'll try to explain it better.

@@CyberCPU Well, there's EUFI, and TPM, and i7 7700, and what is a Local Account (vs Microsoft Account)?

@@dhy5342 UEFI -Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. It's essentially a computer's most base firmware. UEFI is a new standard that replaced BIOS (basic input output system) that's been used since the beginning of the personal computer. TPM - trusted platform module. It's essentially a glorified random number generator that can store encryption keys to make cryptology stronger within computer systems. It's used to help strengthen technologies like secure boot and encrypted hard drives. i7 7700K - This is just a popular Intel 7th generation model number. The i7 indicates the type of CPU. For the 7th generation it would have made it a quad code with hyperthreading. The 7700 is the generation. The K simply means it had an unlocked multiplier making it an overclockable processor. Hope that helps.

@@CyberCPU As long as those are all background things that don't require user actions I can live with them without really knowing much about them. I'm happy if the computer turns on ready to go when I hit the on button and the icons appear where I left them on the desktop. It's been years since I saw a Blue Screen Of Death so I suppose everything is going right.

linux :D

They do make such a version of Windows. You can buy it, too. All you need to do first is create a corporation with thousands of employees who will each have their own Windows PC. Then you will be allowed to buy Windows Enterprise version. What could be more simple? 😃

You got Windows Lite OSes, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 all have those versions.

Good news: they exist. Bad news: they're not for you. Most iterations are either for enterprises that wouldn't buy regular Windows due to security concerns or are supposed to be sold only for embedded systems.

10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021. (Massgravel's MAS; HWID). Illegal (and with caveats beside), but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@user-iy3cv3nj3c mostly that a lot of people are used to google chrome

You'd do well to go back to Windows 10.I did.

@@davidr.wilson8194 I'm staying on windows 10.

I would never use Edge because Microsoft had made it to be as inflexible as possible. Like with Windows, I want to customize things to my personal taste and Edge, like Chrome and Windows 11, is the opposite.

Remove your Windows and go Linux. Over 13 years with Ubuntu Linux and Happy Happy Happy...

Or they will be offering Windows 13 to supplant the errors of Windows 12 which was needed to fix Windows 11.

@@garymaxie3481 the OP can decide what to do with their computer

Yes, it's a cool program.

I think I've narrowed it down to the Corsair Commander pro. Typically when I put a test OS on the system I don't bother installing the iCUE software. It shows absolutely nothing in device manager but I haven't had time to test me iCUE theory, but it makes sense. It doesn't do it in my main Windows 10 OS. It just does it in Windows 11 test installs that I use for content. Once I'm done filming the videos I usually wipe it out so I haven't spent much time troubleshooting it.

Yes

Unfortunately the USB-beep issue is also present in Windows 10. I also suspect that it might have something to do with constantly adding and removing a device but my scanner for example still appears to do it's job just fine (I.e. even if I hear the sound in the middle of a 10 page scan job). If somebody finds a fix, I'D be happy for a tutorial.

Not sure if you’re running a Ryzen 5000 series CPU but I used to get the USB connect/disconnect sound ALL THE TIME😒. There were some BIOS updates that nearly eliminated the issue. Still happens from time to time. The original issue caused random, intermittent USB disconnects pretty much constantly. When I first built my machine, it was so irritating I kept mine muted as well

Its not issue with windows, just some device issue, I had that with occulus detector thing some time ago, it was easy fix when I did know whats wrong

@@LazloNQ I remembered that I've been on the Windows 11 Insider Preview version where I can submit feedback. I just submitted the three things I mentioned above. Would be interesting if it actually changed. My reasoning was, these tasks are admin stuff we've been doing and to change it for NO GOOD REASON slows us down, not to mention we will still be working on Win10/8/7 machines, so having to deal with both when we have a stack of issues to fix is not a good user experience. I told Microsoft I'd rather go back to Win 10 in that case. I don't think anything will come of it but it was nice getting to fuss at them for what it's worth!

doesnt ctrl+shift+esc work anymore?

I've noticed that. I'm planning on doing a video on it. The coolest feature that I wanted to talk about was the tabbed file Explorer and in the latest update they took it away. I am so bummed about that.

They brought it back in the development preview. That feature should be added to the next major build.

No. The programmers are not doing shit regarding user experience. They just program what they are told. And I doubt very much that you asked Woz and he said this.

I'm sorry, but how da fuq do you have to look up how to shutdown windows? It's basically the same as it has been in every version of windows and it's the same as in every desktop environment that has a start menu.

@@lycanthoss The shut down command in all previous versions has been in the same location. In eleven you have to right click on the on the window then in on a list near the bottom. It only took a couple of minutes but this is just another example of brilliant stupidity that occurs when staff decides to change the interface. I call them time wasters.

@@dwightehowell8179 but the location of the shut down button is completely intuitive. And for how different the UI is, I'd say it's basically the same location.

Yes. I completely agree.

Heard they were going to release an update next month. Windows 11 really needs that update badly.

> The current release builds weren't ready for release and now it's feature frozen till the end of this year from what I understand If that's the case that is absolutely unacceptable from a company like Microsoft. At least Apple knows how to release updates, and that is coming from a pc user of two decades typing on a MacBook.

@@rommix0 From what I understand the "next major version of Windows 11" won't be around till 2022 H2 still. They stopped doing feature updates every 6 months like Windows 10 had. Saying that, I have seen some articles saying they are considering releasing a feature update earlier in the year indepentent of the 22H2 update.

Well, that’s MS for you, look at Halo.

Just switch to Linux

@@laseen7809 I'm working on it to be truthful. Do you have any recommendation on distros? I'm liking Debian with KDE so far,

@@laseen7809 ...or get rid of "older folks"! They're "useless eaters," after all.

U can change the start menu tho

"On my 4K panel (3840x2160), which dimension has more pixels to burn?". i love that sentence. You're thinking with actual logic man, all that is out the window in this case :P I wish the people in charge were as logical as you are :P edit: just think of the process to change your default browser to chrome.. logic completely out the window