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Re: Windows 11

Post by Wrathbone » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:33 am

Hmm. Little things like this give me pause:
If you used to right-click on the Taskbar and open the Task Manager from the corresponding context menu, too bad, you're out of luck. The Windows 11 Taskbar does not have a proper context menu.
It's not streamlining if it prevents you from doing something in the simplest way. Maybe I'll hold off after all.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Sly Boots » Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:55 pm

Lordy, I only switched to Win10 just over a year ago, at this rate I'll be taking the plunge some time around 2030 :lol:

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Rossell » Wed Oct 06, 2021 2:50 pm

I was on XP til like 2011.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Achtung Englander » Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:23 am



superb overview between the two. This video has just confirmed that I really do not need to upgrade. I will leave it until MS switches off support for Win10 - around 2025

...and I really do not need any Amazon Android apps on my PC.
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Re: Windows 11

Post by Achtung Englander » Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:56 pm

....and so it begins. This is why I never install or buy SW 1.0

https://www.pcgamesn.com/windows-11/reg ... ity-issues
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Re: Windows 11

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Wrathbone » Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:28 am

I'm increasingly glad I've held off in the end.

The 15% performance reduction on AMD CPUs feels like it's intentional, which begs the question of whether there's any law which would prevent MS in theory from artificially hampering performance on "non-favoured" hardware. Pretty shady if that's what's happening.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Raid » Fri Oct 15, 2021 9:18 am

I'm not sure I would go that far; my fairly new Surface laptop has an AMD processor in it - I don't think Microsoft would intentionally cripple one of their main hardware lines without it affecting the competition equally.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Achtung Englander » Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:48 pm

....so anyone upgraded ?
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Post by Sly Boots » Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:54 pm

Nope, and it's highly unlikely I will.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Achtung Englander » Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:51 pm

yeah it looks like none of us are up for it :lol:

well this is going well for Microsoft. Does one think we are seeing Vista mark II
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Re: Windows 11

Post by Raid » Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:51 pm

The high profile problems aren't going to help with the adoption rate, but I think it's a bit early to be saying Vista 2.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Wrathbone » Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:20 am

Windows does seem to have that Star Trek movie problem of a good one followed by a bad one.

98 - good
Me - bad
XP - good
Vista - bad
7 - good
8 - bad
10 - good

Of course I'm conveniently ignoring 95, which was revolutionary, and 8.1, which I consider a retcon of 8 rather than a full blown version. There's 2000, I guess, but that was never really marketed to home users.

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Re: Windows 11

Post by Achtung Englander » Fri Oct 22, 2021 3:59 pm

good summing up. I expect a lot of people have the same feeling we do. Win 10 ain't broke, why am I upgrading again?
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Re: Windows 11

Post by Alan » Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:31 pm

8 was good!
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