When Microsoft finally pulls the plug on Windows 10 its successor will be four years old, and for three of those, it was never the OS of choice amongst Steam users
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Which also means you have roughly 6 years before they make you switch again...
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Which also means you have roughly 6 years before they make you switch again...
Wooops the requirements have been heightened insert corporate excuse that people will eat up.
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Wooops the requirements have been heightened insert corporate excuse that people will eat up.
"Don't you guys have quantum computers?"
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Not mine anyways lol
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I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don't even know where to start.
I know it's the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it's all small icons and you can't have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare "recall" feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.
I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.
With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it's become such a powerful OS.
I've never been happier!
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I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don't even know where to start.
I know it's the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it's all small icons and you can't have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare "recall" feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.
I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.
With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it's become such a powerful OS.
I've never been happier!
I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
So change it, that's a setting that's been there since day one on W11 to move the Start menu and taskbar stuff back to the left corner.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it’s all small icons and you can’t have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
The tiles were one of the biggest things people complained about on Windows 8 and 10 compared to previous versions. The Windows 11 Start Menu works more like previous versions in this regard, because that's something people were VERY vocal about wanting back.
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Can't believe it's been 4 years since Windows 11. It feels like only yesterday when I was a Windows Insider for Windows 10 and Windows Phone 10.
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I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don't even know where to start.
I know it's the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it's all small icons and you can't have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare "recall" feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.
I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.
With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it's become such a powerful OS.
I've never been happier!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu.
For those reading along, this person is talking about the KDE Plasma desktop environment. The Kubuntu Linux distribution uses it by default, but you can also install and switch to it on just about any popular Linux distro, even if it's not the default.
I use Plasma, too. It's good, reasonably familiar, and respects the fact that people might want to tweak things to fit their needs.
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The second Windows 10 expires, I’m switching to the Penguin
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I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don't even know where to start.
I know it's the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it's all small icons and you can't have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare "recall" feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.
I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.
With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it's become such a powerful OS.
I've never been happier!
Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
If you have multiple monitors, change the setting so it only displays on the primary monitor and see if that makes a difference.
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The second Windows 10 expires, I’m switching to the Penguin
welcome!
to get started, download a linux OS .iso and write it to a usb with Balena Etcher. boot to that usb by selecting it in your bios/uefi (restart the computer and smash the del key a whole bunch to get there)
its basic, but this is the part that can confuse those who arent so tech savvy and want to switch
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Wooops the requirements have been heightened insert corporate excuse that people will eat up.
Linux Requirements: Computer*
*optional
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Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
If you have multiple monitors, change the setting so it only displays on the primary monitor and see if that makes a difference.
Ah yes, it does happen when I have an extra monitor. I'll try it next time.
Thanks!
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I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
So change it, that's a setting that's been there since day one on W11 to move the Start menu and taskbar stuff back to the left corner.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it’s all small icons and you can’t have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
The tiles were one of the biggest things people complained about on Windows 8 and 10 compared to previous versions. The Windows 11 Start Menu works more like previous versions in this regard, because that's something people were VERY vocal about wanting back.
And I really don't get it.
People were used to the multi-level app menu in Windows 7 and before. The tiled menu might have been too much of a change. But it made sense. Less frequently used applications could have smaller icons and more commonly used one have bigger icons so they're easier to find and click. It was great ergonomically speaking.
The people were wrong! lol
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I'll stick with Win10 and third party protection until my GPU, games or gaming related apps/peripherals stop working. Until then, I see no reason to upgrade, even if they were to pay me to do it.
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Using windows 11 got me to switch my home PC to Linux at the start of the year so I have them to thank or that. My work PC just got updated from W10 to W11 and so far it's so much worse than I was expecting, purely based on performance/buginess alone. I have no problems with most the features but it all feels one step forward two steps back when the whole system seems to be much less responsive
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Using windows 11 got me to switch my home PC to Linux at the start of the year so I have them to thank or that. My work PC just got updated from W10 to W11 and so far it's so much worse than I was expecting, purely based on performance/buginess alone. I have no problems with most the features but it all feels one step forward two steps back when the whole system seems to be much less responsive
I put my work computer on Linux(NixOS) lol.
When I do IT for users on Win 11 I'm constantly like "Why is this so slowwww? ". -
I have Win 11 at work and I hate it so much for so many reasons I don't even know where to start.
I know it's the trend right now, but I hate rounded corners for one. I like having my whole desktop real estate to be used. And the shrunken floating taskbar is a GUI ergonomic nightmare. I want to just throw my cursor into a corner without looking and click with the confidence that it will open my start menu.
Speaking of which, my task bar keeps freezing every day I use it so my system tray and even the time is never accurate.
The start menu is a fucking mess. I really loved the Windows 10 start menu with its tiles and groups. Now you have to manually pin everything, it's all small icons and you can't have them in groups. You have to create sub-folders to put the icons in, adding an extra click for nothing.
I hate that it comes with an integrated AI and I hate that it has this privacy nightmare "recall" feature or whatever the fuck that takes sreenshots of your monitor to feed its AI.
I went 100% Linux last fall with Kubuntu. I added a tiled menu and even added Windows 10 style window decorations to complete the look and feel.
With the latest advancements in Steam, Wine and Proton, which has been able to play every game I threw at it so far, it's become such a powerful OS.
I've never been happier!
Since my work "upgraded" to windows 11 the task bar is the bane of my existence.
We all run a laptop docked with two monitors.
In windows 10 I would set a monitor as primary, drag the task bar to the laptop screen.
That would result in the most real estate for the software I use with out clutter.Can't fucking do this is 11.
It's either primary or all monitors for task bar.
Someone suggested auto hide the task bar. Holy shit even that has been fucking ruined in 11. It turns off randomly and frequently. Plus notifications seem to over ride the hiding. -
I'll stick with Win10 and third party protection until my GPU, games or gaming related apps/peripherals stop working. Until then, I see no reason to upgrade, even if they were to pay me to do it.
How do you get third party protection? I've no desire to switch either but I don't want to go without malware protection.
