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People say this all the time, but it certainly isn't true. I for one, I am excited about Windows 11 because its finally things coming together. 64bit only, dr

People say this all the time, but it certainly isn't true. I for one, I am excited about Windows 11 because its finally things coming together. 64bit only, dropping old cruft, making the UI consistent/cleaner.. If you like tech/gaming - there is a lot to be excited about. PC and Console gaming with Game pass ultimate is a hell of a deal... Plus WSLg, Android apps ... i mean come on, its pretty f'n cool.

fleaaaa 5y ago
Agree, plus some techs that were only available for their console are coming to desktop which would gain quite a lot of performance boost for low to mid tier budget desktop. UI change is icing on the cake but more or less it's huge update for consumer OS. Obviously folks here are pretty much isolated from mass market though.
Daishiman 5y ago
None of those things are changing the daily use habits and the usability of an OS that I've been using to do the exact same things for the past 20 years. The internal cleanup is great; good for them, but it doesn't map out to any subtantial change in the apps you're using. The UI, thanks for it being clean, but as far as I'm concerned everything after Windows 7 has not improved desktop app usability much if anything. We used to have compact UIs that maximized screen usage. Now every single UI element has tons of padding, tons of vertical screen usage in a world where everything is widescreen. The compromise of desktop OSes for mobile-like use cases has not improved the desktop story at all and judging from the videos of Windows it's more of the same. Android apps? Every app I've ever wanted already exists on Windows or the browser. I'm sure a minuscule amount of people will want that, but I want native desktop apps, leveraging native OS features. Game pass is great, I use it for the Xbox, but it's not a core OS feature. Anyone can implement this, it doesn't require Windows 11.
- supernovae 5y ago
  Ok, so for you, stay with windows 10. I don't see what the problem is. It's supported until 2025 at least.
staticman2 5y ago
Game pass already works on Windows 10. It's not in any way a plausible Windows 11 feature.
- supernovae 5y ago
  It is when the store experience is much improved and the performance is better because all the old !64bit cruft is removed.

fleaaaa 5y ago

Agree, plus some techs that were only available for their console are coming to desktop which would gain quite a lot of performance boost for low to mid tier budget desktop. UI change is icing on the cake but more or less it's huge update for consumer OS. Obviously folks here are pretty much isolated from mass market though.

Daishiman 5y ago

None of those things are changing the daily use habits and the usability of an OS that I've been using to do the exact same things for the past 20 years. The internal cleanup is great; good for them, but it doesn't map out to any subtantial change in the apps you're using. The UI, thanks for it being clean, but as far as I'm concerned everything after Windows 7 has not improved desktop app usability much if anything. We used to have compact UIs that maximized screen usage. Now every single UI element has tons of padding, tons of vertical screen usage in a world where everything is widescreen. The compromise of desktop OSes for mobile-like use cases has not improved the desktop story at all and judging from the videos of Windows it's more of the same. Android apps? Every app I've ever wanted already exists on Windows or the browser. I'm sure a minuscule amount of people will want that, but I want native desktop apps, leveraging native OS features. Game pass is great, I use it for the Xbox, but it's not a core OS feature. Anyone can implement this, it doesn't require Windows 11.

supernovae 5y ago
Ok, so for you, stay with windows 10. I don't see what the problem is. It's supported until 2025 at least.

staticman2 5y ago

Game pass already works on Windows 10. It's not in any way a plausible Windows 11 feature.

supernovae 5y ago
It is when the store experience is much improved and the performance is better because all the old !64bit cruft is removed.