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When unplugging and plugging back in external monitors it moves windows back to the same monitors they were on before unplugging them. This is probably the most significant QoL feature.

The control centre generally feels better than Windows 10, except for switching sound outputs or getting to the volume mixer, which require too many clicks.

The settings app is a little more cohesive and has had some more control panel functionality transitioned into it.

Nothing they couldn’t have fixed in Windows 10, but it is overall better for me due to the above.

My new-ish work laptop runs Windows 11, but my personal desktop for gaming on a 6th gen Intel doesn’t meet official requirements. It has TPM 2 though, so once October arrives I reckon it’s better to run Windows 11 in a “technically” unsupported manner rather than stick with an OS which is no longer getting updates (and no, I will not switch to Linux as I’m not looking for another hobby).

> (and no, I will not switch to Linux as I’m not looking for another hobby).

Respectable. The state of desktop Linux is pretty good but it's very much a 'your-mileage-may-vary' situation. Every 'exotic' thing you introduce into your setup (having a variable-refresh-rate monitor, having an HDR monitor, two monitors of different refresh rates, running Wayland over X11, having a brand new GPU, having an NVIDIA GPU) is another possible, sometimes likely, source of pain.

Some of the multiplayer games I play with my friends can be played on Linux, but I make a point of using my Windows partition for those because I don't want to waste their time on my troubleshooting.

I know ya crapped on Linux but Pop! OS is pretty great. It's the only distro to play nice with my Nvidia graphics out of the box. Multi monitor support is great. I even use a weird docking station and it works just fine. Steam works great for like 70% of games.

Win11 gave me tons of sound and Bluetooth issues to the point it felt like Linux alsa issues from 2010 or something.

I still have my win11 install on another partition but I rarely use it now. Just for niche stuff.

> When unplugging and plugging back in external monitors it moves windows back to the same monitors they were on before unplugging them. This is probably the most significant QoL feature.

Sometimes. Sometimes it does. It's all very random. My work laptop drives me nuts, when plugging back into the dock my windows return to where they were about 3/4 of the times. A quarter of the times they just all bunch up on the main monitor.

I’ve found it’s pretty reliable with my dock, or at least consistent.

Windows only “forget” their old place if you move them or with applications like Slack they are “minimized” to the system tray.

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