Windows 11 Upgrade?

Have you upgraded your PC to Windows 11?

  • Yes

    Votes: 57 41.6%
  • No

    Votes: 80 58.4%

  • Total voters
    137
I did the Windows 11 update back in July 2021 with the Microsoft early access program.
I have not had a single issue on that OS and I am running an MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC board with 1.2.0.7.
 
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Hmm. I guess it has probably happened before, but I can't remember a time when a CPU that was released just over 6 years previously (Intel 7th gen) was unable to run the current MS OS.
At least not officially. There are ways to install it anyway with a few edits here and there.
There must be, to be able to use it in VMs anyway!
 
Well. I decided to update my old Lenovo ThinkPad to Windows 11 even though its unsupported. WOW! I was impresssed with the snappy performance, look and feel. So, I did a complete fresh install of Windows 11 on my Gaming PC. After making needed tweaks based on an excellent YouTube gaming video, I'm quite pleased with it...so far. I'll let you know if end up changing my mind on this.
 
I finally updated my gaming computer to Win 11.
Looks a little different, otherwise other than having to turn off V-sync in the graphics settings which was flipped on during the update, everything seems to run the same as before.

It is running with Gaming mode on and has the latest GPU driver. My CPU is currently running in "gaming mode" which means the 13900K's eco cores are turned off.
 
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With each iteration of windows MS removes more and more end user options; they want you to use your computer their way, not the way you want. In the not too distant future windows may, possibly, allow you to change the desktop wallpaper ...but if you do there will be endless popups, "Microsoft Windows wallpaper has been changed! Click here to reinstall default wallpaper."

If MS would spend half the resources on creating an OS users want as on their draconian, overblown, "security" and telemetry and activation/validation/registration/legislation/masturbation manure they could have a product to brag about.
 
a product to brag about
On a guess, you may never have worked in tech corporate enterprises,
where poor developers get promoted to management,
still in denial about their paltry tech skills and giving thumbs up or down
based on PowerPoint proposals from other future managers
who never read anyone's code and consequently have
no way of sorting improvements from change for change's sake.

Actually good (not to be confused with successful) developers take their bonuses and bail.
 
On a guess, you may never have worked in tech corporate enterprises,
where poor developers get promoted to management,
still in denial about their paltry tech skills and giving thumbs up or down
based on PowerPoint proposals from other future managers
who never read anyone's code and consequently have
no way of sorting improvements from change for change's sake.

Actually good (not to be confused with successful) developers take their bonuses and bail.
Lol, I am an engineer (electronics, not railroad), retired.

Your post reminds me of "The Peter Principle", a business concept which states, "in any hierarchy a person will be promoted to their level of incompetence". Basically, as long as you are doing a good job you will get promoted, but eventually you are in a job beyond your capabilities ...and you are left there, rather than being placed back where you did a good job. So, eventually every company is staffed by incompetents. (A good explanation of civil service.)
 
Here is the funny thing. There are a surprising number of talented work-o-holics who just can't imagine living any other way. They are all about the challenges and that is what gives their lives meaning.

I personally know some of these people who don't need to work another day in their lives, but couldn't imagine not working. One of them has been on the board that decides what goes into the .NET framework with each release. He is absolutely brilliant and has written a number of extremely technical in the weeds books that have been well received.

MS has had it's issues and in fighting between groups vying for dominance even at the expense of other groups. However under the current leadership they actually do have a better more cohesive strategy. That doesn't make any of their products perfect, but overall I think they are on a pretty decent path.
 
Lol, I don't need to demonize MS, Bill Gates and his jack-booted minions beat me to it. Just opinion of course.
 
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Lol, I don't need to demonize MS, Bill Gates and his jack-booted minions beat me to it. Just opinion of course.
Gates stepped down as the company's CEO in 2000, and left his full-time role at Microsoft in 2008.
So keep blaming him 20 years later.
What alternative do you have for gaming platform, Playstation?
 
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