What's so bad about Windows 11? Help me understand

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4 points·MaximilianEmel··3 comments

I truly believe it's 75% the name. If the changes in W11 (Electron Start button, tabbed File Explorer, new context menu, etc.) were just included over a few semi-annual channel Windows 10 updates then the push back would be a lot less. All of the most annoying stuff, like telemetry and Copilot advertisements were part of the latest Windows 10 releases anyway.

The hardware support is also a big issue, but I don't know how many people complaining so vocally don't have computers new enough to run without any kind of bypass.

Ehh, secure boot enforcement, Microsoft account enforcement, shitty OneDrive integration?

Microsoft cannot be trusted as a provider for data. I use it on my work machine but here I am authenticated by a locally hosted domain controller. Private installs are a privacy and security nightmare.

I just like the utility of being able to swap hard drives to other machines and I have no evil maid anyway.

In many instances Windows says you system is too old if your system uses MBR/Bios for booting. TPM2.0 is old for that matter. It is just not detectable depending on your boot configuration (which is a good thing in my opinion).

> Criticisms of telemetry and promotion of tools that supposedly disable it aren't new

Yes, well, it does get a lot, lot worse if this telemetry is connected through an account.

I don't know; My privat computer is still good enough for what I use it for, but it's too old according to Microsoft.

At work, the most annoying thing was the ads, but after disabling then, WSL works just as fine on W11 as W10.

I simply fail to see any benefit of upgrading - apart from security patches.

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