Windows 11 24H2 is WORSE THAN Windows 8 | RANT:30

Microsoft has to understand that once we power users start going to linux, and get confortable there, we are not coming back.

For me deal breaker was when 'My Computer' became 'This PC', implying that the PC is no longer mine...

How about that stupid right click menu, where the most used cmd's are under "more options" Pisses me off 10 times a day.

Thats what annoys me, Not the ads, The control over MY PC. I do not need someone telling me what I can install on it.

its safe to say that if it wasnt for security reasons, most people would still be using windows xp and 7

As a Linux user I actually agree with a lot of your points here, and I don't pretend Linux is the silver bullet that we want it to be yet, I just got really tired of all the ads, broken code, and straight up data theft

I jumped off the Windows Wagon when the first foreshocks of ads being experimented with in the file browser hit us. I switched to Linux then, and it's been interesting to say the least. (Using a newbie distro, Mint, for reference.) Certain things are ridiculously easy in Linux where I had some resistance in Windows. Things like recognizing printers is done seemlessly on Linux where if it sees the device on your network it will just add it to usable devices when you go to print. I've never had an easy time setting up printers on Windows. Another odd thing was I decided to install Microsoft Office 07 under Wine, and it gave me no hassle at all over my key. I've used this software cd/key since around 2008, and when I upgraded to Windows 10 it REALLY did not want me to be able to activate it. I ended up just having to leave the key in the software, keep using it while the activation timer kept giving me warnings, and eventually it gave in and just gave me my software activation. No such fuss on Linux. Gaming on Linux really brings me back to my early days of computers for me (early 2000's in my case) where you can get most stuff to work, but you're going to have to work a little bit for it. If you stick to Steam it's really easy, but it gets more complicated when you want to run older games or mods. Thankfully the tricks you learn to get one game working will probably apply to many others. That sense of discovery really takes me back to when computers were new and exciting to me, as I didn't have everything quite figured out, and the possibilities of what the machine in front of me could do seemed endless. The biggest downside of Linux for me is definitely the hard incompatibilities. There have been certain pieces of hardware that I initially thought I wasn't going to be able to run, like my GOXLR or my PCIe capture card, but with some headache I was eventually able to get running in some capacity. The biggest hurdle being, like you said, some of the creative apps not working fully or at all on Linux. One example for me being Vegas Pro. It's not supported on Linux, and only some older versions can run under Wine, and they come with big compromises. My options then are either to go without it, keep a windows install, or learn a new editing suite. The third option is probably what Ill end up doing, but I know thats a huge timesink and ball of frustration that I have to get through right off the start. I do hope more people come to Linux. I don't think it will ever be the dominant OS, but I could see it being the one gamers use if it were to ridiculously easy to setup in 99% of games (right now it's probably 70% thanks to steam), and if the performance gap on Windows it has for games grew too big for gamers to ignore.

Windows 11 taskbar is a disgrace to humanity.

Ahh Microsoft, they've reinvented the wheel so many times now it's a square! Cheers 🍻

Hostility toward customer needs has been accelerating in all areas of commerce in the last several years. It will cost them dearly.

still using windows 10 there is no reason to switch to w11

Sitting on windows 10 until defeated or moving to Linux. There is no third option, macOS is garbage too

The Microsoft ceo told the programmers to prioritize security. Then they bricked vpn’s 😂

The one that gets me is that Microsoft, with the Windows 11 24H2 update, will be automatically applying Bitlocker encryption for all volumes on your device. Happens during the Windows install process but supposedly when you update an existing 23H2 system to 24H2. I DO NOT want my devices to have Bitlocker encryption on them, I have no need for that to occur and really, really hate that MS is making that an automatic/mandatory thing.

The last thing I want on my OS is it telling me I can't do something I want to do

Windows 8 looked like one of those Kiosks in stores ore restaurants.

This is the reason Apple does not put MacOS on the iPad and people don't understand why. Having different interfaces for different devices is good.

People often buy big, expensive high-resolution monitors *because they want more usable screen space*. Not usually due to having the visual cognition of a two-year-old. Then we have MS and the majority of current website creators tabletifying everything, scrolling down umpteen times to see content which should fit on an old 640x480 VGA display.     … It's somewhat akin to fitting a sports car with the same engine as a 49cc scooter. Even with "printer-friendly" stuff e.g. statements, now it's triple line spacing with tiny fonts and acres of white-space. Requires FOUR sheets of paper? It could easily fit on ONE.

Main reason I'm still using Windows is the ease of installing and running games, especially games that don't have a Linux variant.

Bro, I switched to Linux. All games working easily and everything is so fucking fast no matter whats installed. Never going back