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On the subject, is there any compelling reason to use Windows 11 rather than Windows 10? My plan is to use Windows 10 as long as it's supported, then stop usin

On the subject, is there any compelling reason to use Windows 11 rather than Windows 10? My plan is to use Windows 10 as long as it's supported, then stop using Windows altogether which is already only for games. Then I can hopefully use a Steam Deck or a future 'Steam PC'. I can see how MS might consider Windows to matter less with their infrastructure/services business, but anything that keeps users on Windows rather than switch to the Apple ecosystem has to be worth the effort to make Windows suck less rather than cashing out. I'm trying to see the long term strategy and it might be making MS an open-source services company around .NET (and a Linux distribution) along with proprietary cloud and apps (SharePoint etc).

Havoc 4y ago
I believe the direct storage implementation on 11 is faster than 10, so gamers looking for every last FPS might switch. I'm personally hoping steam/proton/anti-cheat etc improves so that I can dump the entire mess...
alkonaut 4y ago
I upgraded and can’t see why they even gave it a new number. Feels like some past Win10 upgrades were similarly large. Apart from some cosmetic changes I have no opinion on, a few new and changed features (mostly good), the biggest difference I see is the new explorer context menu which is awful since you 98% of the time need an extra click to reach the item you need. But apart from that, it feels like a solid version. Just the usual hardware support improvements alone make it an acceptable upgrade. It also feels slightly more clever in the MacOS way when it comes to switching between audio devices etc.
- fuzzfactor 4y ago
  >I upgraded and can’t see why they even gave it a new number. The latest W11 is still obviously Windows 10 version 10.0.22621.1037, and that's on the beta channel where the comment is "Updated the search box on the taskbar with more rounded corners."
- ajdude 4y ago
  > I upgraded and can’t see why they even gave it a new number My theory is that MS never expected macOS to stop being OSX (version 10) and once Apple came out with MacOS 11, Microsoft had to follow suit.
pxc 4y ago
> On the subject, is there any compelling reason to use Windows 11 rather than Windows 10? WSLg, although it was developed on Windows 10 and only 'requires' Windows 11 by way of anti-feature. (You can use other X11 display servers on Windows 10 but the UX sucks compared to WSLg, even though WSLg is a bit of a buggy mess.)
- khaledh 4y ago
  WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
  - pxc 4y ago
    Oh, ok! Then no, there's no reason to 'upgrade' at all.
arepublicadoceu 4y ago
The only compelling reason to use windows 11 over windows 10 is if you enjoy the cosmetic changes and don’t care about the loss in functionality or you’re willing to install third party software or mess in the register to undo this loss. I don’t care about their cosmetic change so I will do the same: hang to windows 10 until EOL and then pray to god that nvidia and wayland will have fixed their rough edges (night light, etc).
- unsafecast 4y ago
  We're getting there! Wayland is slowly becoming more and more usable, and unless you've got an nvidia GPU, there's a good chance you wouldn't even notice you're running Wayland most of the time. My intel igpu laptop is running Wayland full-time and it works perfectly. No tearing, night light works, xwayland is seamless, input stuff works*, and there's working sleep and resume, including sleep and throttling on low battery. * You can't change the set of keyboard layouts without restarting Wayland, but you can switch layouts just fine.
ape4 4y ago
Its actually faster. https://www.technipages.com/windows-11-is-faster-than-windows-10-and-heres-why https://www.technipages.com/windows-11-is-faster-than-window...
- RunSet 4y ago
  From that article: > Conclusion > Windows 11 definitely feels faster and smoother compared to Windows 10. Much of this comes from the improved memory management system that Windows 11 is using. If you own an average computer in terms of specs, you’ll definitely notice the difference. The same is valid for old low-specs machines. Windows 11 feels a lot snappier, even on HDD machines. Overall, it runs better than its predecessor on many computers. Windows 10 system requirements[0]: * Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC * RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit Windows 11 system requirements[1]: * 1 Ghz or faster with 2 or more cores and appearing on our list of approved CPUs. * RAM: 4 GB. Gee, they made it "feel" faster and all they had to do was quadruple the memory requirements and restrict it to whitelisted hardware. However do the wizards at Redmond perform such sorcery? [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-system-requirements-6d4e9a79-66bf-7950-467c-795cf0386715 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-syste... [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-system-requirements-86c11283-ea52-4782-9efd-7674389a7ba3 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-syste...
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    >Gee, they made it "feel" faster and all they had to do was quadruple the memory requirements and restrict it to whitelisted hardware. However do the wizards at Redmond perform such sorcery? What do the system requirements have to do with the better performance for 11, if the tests were performed on the same hardware? You yourself posted the reason why it's faster and it isn't because of the system requirements: "Windows 11 definitely feels faster and smoother compared to Windows 10. Much of this comes from the improved memory management system that Windows 11 is using. If you own an average computer in terms of specs, you’ll definitely notice the difference. The same is valid for old low-specs machines. Windows 11 feels a lot snappier, even on HDD machines. Overall, it runs better than its predecessor on many computers." Also, Windows 10 was launched in 2015, while 11 launched in 2021, it can be understandable they advertise higher system requirements today vs 2015, as computing hardware has also evolved in that time frame and so have the demands of the apps people run on their system, and they wish their users to have the best experience and if they'd advertise lower system requirements, then some users would complain "it's slow". This way they make it clear on which hardware you can expect a decent experience, and it's in no way gonna be on a system with once CPU core and 2GB of RAM. Hell, even the 4GB required for Win 11 seem incredibly conservative. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.
khaledh 4y ago
Don't downgrade to Windows 11 (yes, it's a downgrade from my point of view). Windows 11 is very hostile to users. You can read my list of pain points with Windows 11 in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748076
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >Don't downgrade to Windows 11 (yes, it's a downgrade from my point of view) Can't concur wit your PoV. Have not had any issues with it and the improvements in features and snappiness it brought over 10 was worth the upgrade. You can read my list of improvements here (forgot to add Bluetooth improvements): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33870655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33870655
  - knaik94 4y ago
    A lot of this list already exists in windows 10.
    - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
      Definitely not all those improvements. I can guarantee you that.
chapium 4y ago
I've come to the point where the only time I will take an OS upgrade is if security updates are stopped (unlikely) or if I'm switching hardware. My theory is that no OS "upgrade" will improve performance. Theoretically it could include optimization, but usually includes bloat because the minimum standard is raised.
nickjj 4y ago
If anyone is curious, end of life for Windows 10 Pro and Home is October 14, 2025[0]. We have a bit under 3 years to get Linux's gaming support to match Windows without needing to delve into using KVM with a GPU passthrough as a crutch. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...
- bilegeek 4y ago
  Linux gamer since 2020 here. While obviously not perfect, things are getting better at amazing speed. Between Linux getting better and Windows getting worse at compatibility, your 3-year timeline looks very doable. Though multiplayer games will remain a pain point for the foreseeable future, due to anti-cheat shenanigans. (Also, sometimes the compat is there, but figuring out how to enable it is a pain. d3dx* being a good example; for me, it was selectable in winecfg menu, but wasn't installed until I figured out winetricks. Steam and Proton issues are much less obtuse.)
  - jorvi 4y ago
    AFAIK the two big services (BattlEye and EAC) both already support Proton. Off the top of my head, the biggest games not supporting Proton due to anti-cheat are Destiny 2* and Halo Master Chief Collection, and Halo MCC is actively being worked on by Valve & Microsoft. *despite running BattlEye now, the Destiny devs have a deep-seated trauma from their game being derailed by cheaters for the years prior before BattlEye, and thus make very obtuse choices like not allowing overlays or not flipping the BattlEye Proton switch and allowing Destiny 2 to run on Proton
    - bilegeek 4y ago
      Those services support Linux, but like you noted, not all the games that use the services do. (adding to your Destiny example, Fortnite has explicitly been denied[3] Linux support.) [1]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/1441477816311291906 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/144147781631129... [2]https://areweanticheatyet.com/ https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [3]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1490519194915459072 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/149051919491...
judge2020 4y ago
AutoHDR is 1000% better in my experience. Still some quirks, like Windows Key+Shift+S Screenshots not being tone mapped on my HDR monitor sometimes, but otherwise W10 HDR wasn't too pleasant.
kyriakos 4y ago
After waiting for 22H2 I finally upgraded (in place). It feels faster and looks like my 16gb of ram fill up slower which I attribute to improved memory management. All my multi device Bluetooth issues are also gone (had problems with Bose headphones disconnecting, Bluetooth keyboard not working a times using Windows 10). I did install startallback so I can have vertical taskbar and modified registry to bring the Windows 10 right click menu back (which to be fair to Microsoft wouldn't be needed if my other software would use the win 11 APIs to add options to the menu) Generally my experience after 2 weeks is good.
bilegeek 4y ago
Nested Hyper-V on AMD hardware. (Though ironically, the biggest users of this feature I'm aware of are Linux VFIO enthusiasts trying to run multiplayer games in a VM.)
cameronh90 4y ago
Windows 10 gets very confused when you have monitors with different DPIs and you're switching between them, which is very common for me nowadays. Windows 11 doesn't seem to have any problems. It also has better HDR support and feels faster to me.
briHass 4y ago
I think MS is just playing around with different UI concepts and seeing what users will tolerate in 11 before cleaning everything up in Win 12 just before the support ends for 10. At work, we're still on Win 10, with no plan to move to 11, which mirrors my strategy at home. I also largely avoided Win 8, staying on 7 almost until 10 was released, which was a tolerable 'fix' of 8's experimental features.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
I'd switch today if Valve could fix all the problems with their VR kit on Linux. Yes, even though that means ~$1000 in hardware costs for me to buy a new headset and base stations and whatnot. Microsoft has managed to burn so much of what made Windows my preferred OS away that I'm willing to put up with Linux Desktop's bullshit instead.
- manimino 4y ago
  Linux desktop since 2016 here. The nice part about the Linux bullshit is that it's always the same bullshit. You don't get brand new bullshit shoved at you. It's nice to feel like you really own your software.
nullandvoid 4y ago
Devils advocate I upgraded last week (after holding off for a long time) and it's working well for me. Memory management seems much better with WSL / in general (not having to restart nearly as much). I make use of virtual desktops a lot, and the no animation when switching between them is a nice QOL, but one I couldn't go back on. You can make everything less hostile quickly by removing the search bar, and removing the "search web" feature in start menu etc in a couple of minutes.
- tracker1 4y ago
  WSL virtual environment will allocate memory during use, but won't release it... in earlier releases it would use up everything... in more recent versions (not sure when the cut from 10/11 was), it will limit to half system ram... You can set this manually with a config file in your home directory. WSLg is limited to Win11 though, even though it was in the insiders builds for 10 before 11 came out. Win11 isn't too bad, but the increases in effectively advertorial software, ads in search results and breaking twice on me, my desktop is on my Linux drive most of the time, and I'll probably remove my Windows drive altogether (nvme/pcie adapter) for a 10gb nic.
  - khaledh 4y ago
    > WSLg is limited to Win11 though WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
    - tracker1 4y ago
      At this point, the only Windows system I use is my work computer, and it's too locked down for me to update WSL or Windows to a new release cycle (21H2). Glad WSLg is on Win10 at this point though... Was really a turning point imo for working inside WSL... VS Code remote dev is also invaluable, but not the same as actual *nix apps.
ClumsyPilot 4y ago
Windows 11 has finally fixed bluetooth - in 10 you get two audio devices", bluetooth stereo and bluetooth hands-free. When you are watching a video, and someone calls, your headseet switches to a 'hands-free' mode and all sound that is still streaming to the stereo audio device dissapears into a black hole. Windows 11 actually understands that this is a single audio device and handles bluetooth mode switching for you. This removed a mahor painpoint for me. Otherwise, in my opinion, its a normal mixed bad - something is better, something is worse. Meh.
nightski 4y ago
I went to Windows 11 on my laptop and hate it. Windows 10 will stay on my desktop for as long as possible. That said, there is one thing that really bothers me. They only added support for the 6GHz Wi-Fi protocol in 11 (as part of WiFi 6e). So I can't use the 6 GHz channel on my desktop. It's really annoying.
- CommanderData 4y ago
  There's many features being released for 11 only. Seemingly to incentivise people to switch. Windows subsystem for Android being another (beta). I have seen Uni student buy Apple laptops after their Windows laptops have automatically upgraded or by mistake and they hated the experience. Connected OS to your MS account, gear up for operating system level Ads and counter productive UI. I think this will finally have me buy a Mac and use Unity for VMware if I need to run something Windows related. Thanks Microsoft.

Havoc 4y ago

I believe the direct storage implementation on 11 is faster than 10, so gamers looking for every last FPS might switch. I'm personally hoping steam/proton/anti-cheat etc improves so that I can dump the entire mess...

alkonaut 4y ago

I upgraded and can’t see why they even gave it a new number. Feels like some past Win10 upgrades were similarly large. Apart from some cosmetic changes I have no opinion on, a few new and changed features (mostly good), the biggest difference I see is the new explorer context menu which is awful since you 98% of the time need an extra click to reach the item you need. But apart from that, it feels like a solid version. Just the usual hardware support improvements alone make it an acceptable upgrade. It also feels slightly more clever in the MacOS way when it comes to switching between audio devices etc.

fuzzfactor 4y ago
>I upgraded and can’t see why they even gave it a new number. The latest W11 is still obviously Windows 10 version 10.0.22621.1037, and that's on the beta channel where the comment is "Updated the search box on the taskbar with more rounded corners."
ajdude 4y ago
> I upgraded and can’t see why they even gave it a new number My theory is that MS never expected macOS to stop being OSX (version 10) and once Apple came out with MacOS 11, Microsoft had to follow suit.

pxc 4y ago

> On the subject, is there any compelling reason to use Windows 11 rather than Windows 10? WSLg, although it was developed on Windows 10 and only 'requires' Windows 11 by way of anti-feature. (You can use other X11 display servers on Windows 10 but the UX sucks compared to WSLg, even though WSLg is a bit of a buggy mess.)

khaledh 4y ago
WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
- pxc 4y ago
  Oh, ok! Then no, there's no reason to 'upgrade' at all.

arepublicadoceu 4y ago

The only compelling reason to use windows 11 over windows 10 is if you enjoy the cosmetic changes and don’t care about the loss in functionality or you’re willing to install third party software or mess in the register to undo this loss. I don’t care about their cosmetic change so I will do the same: hang to windows 10 until EOL and then pray to god that nvidia and wayland will have fixed their rough edges (night light, etc).

unsafecast 4y ago
We're getting there! Wayland is slowly becoming more and more usable, and unless you've got an nvidia GPU, there's a good chance you wouldn't even notice you're running Wayland most of the time. My intel igpu laptop is running Wayland full-time and it works perfectly. No tearing, night light works, xwayland is seamless, input stuff works*, and there's working sleep and resume, including sleep and throttling on low battery. * You can't change the set of keyboard layouts without restarting Wayland, but you can switch layouts just fine.

ape4 4y ago

Its actually faster. https://www.technipages.com/windows-11-is-faster-than-windows-10-and-heres-why https://www.technipages.com/windows-11-is-faster-than-window...

RunSet 4y ago
From that article: > Conclusion > Windows 11 definitely feels faster and smoother compared to Windows 10. Much of this comes from the improved memory management system that Windows 11 is using. If you own an average computer in terms of specs, you’ll definitely notice the difference. The same is valid for old low-specs machines. Windows 11 feels a lot snappier, even on HDD machines. Overall, it runs better than its predecessor on many computers. Windows 10 system requirements[0]: * Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC * RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit Windows 11 system requirements[1]: * 1 Ghz or faster with 2 or more cores and appearing on our list of approved CPUs. * RAM: 4 GB. Gee, they made it "feel" faster and all they had to do was quadruple the memory requirements and restrict it to whitelisted hardware. However do the wizards at Redmond perform such sorcery? [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-system-requirements-6d4e9a79-66bf-7950-467c-795cf0386715 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-syste... [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-system-requirements-86c11283-ea52-4782-9efd-7674389a7ba3 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-syste...
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >Gee, they made it "feel" faster and all they had to do was quadruple the memory requirements and restrict it to whitelisted hardware. However do the wizards at Redmond perform such sorcery? What do the system requirements have to do with the better performance for 11, if the tests were performed on the same hardware? You yourself posted the reason why it's faster and it isn't because of the system requirements: "Windows 11 definitely feels faster and smoother compared to Windows 10. Much of this comes from the improved memory management system that Windows 11 is using. If you own an average computer in terms of specs, you’ll definitely notice the difference. The same is valid for old low-specs machines. Windows 11 feels a lot snappier, even on HDD machines. Overall, it runs better than its predecessor on many computers." Also, Windows 10 was launched in 2015, while 11 launched in 2021, it can be understandable they advertise higher system requirements today vs 2015, as computing hardware has also evolved in that time frame and so have the demands of the apps people run on their system, and they wish their users to have the best experience and if they'd advertise lower system requirements, then some users would complain "it's slow". This way they make it clear on which hardware you can expect a decent experience, and it's in no way gonna be on a system with once CPU core and 2GB of RAM. Hell, even the 4GB required for Win 11 seem incredibly conservative. Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.

khaledh 4y ago

Don't downgrade to Windows 11 (yes, it's a downgrade from my point of view). Windows 11 is very hostile to users. You can read my list of pain points with Windows 11 in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748076

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>Don't downgrade to Windows 11 (yes, it's a downgrade from my point of view) Can't concur wit your PoV. Have not had any issues with it and the improvements in features and snappiness it brought over 10 was worth the upgrade. You can read my list of improvements here (forgot to add Bluetooth improvements): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33870655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33870655
- knaik94 4y ago
  A lot of this list already exists in windows 10.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    Definitely not all those improvements. I can guarantee you that.

chapium 4y ago

I've come to the point where the only time I will take an OS upgrade is if security updates are stopped (unlikely) or if I'm switching hardware. My theory is that no OS "upgrade" will improve performance. Theoretically it could include optimization, but usually includes bloat because the minimum standard is raised.

nickjj 4y ago

If anyone is curious, end of life for Windows 10 Pro and Home is October 14, 2025[0]. We have a bit under 3 years to get Linux's gaming support to match Windows without needing to delve into using KVM with a GPU passthrough as a crutch. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

bilegeek 4y ago
Linux gamer since 2020 here. While obviously not perfect, things are getting better at amazing speed. Between Linux getting better and Windows getting worse at compatibility, your 3-year timeline looks very doable. Though multiplayer games will remain a pain point for the foreseeable future, due to anti-cheat shenanigans. (Also, sometimes the compat is there, but figuring out how to enable it is a pain. d3dx* being a good example; for me, it was selectable in winecfg menu, but wasn't installed until I figured out winetricks. Steam and Proton issues are much less obtuse.)
- jorvi 4y ago
  AFAIK the two big services (BattlEye and EAC) both already support Proton. Off the top of my head, the biggest games not supporting Proton due to anti-cheat are Destiny 2* and Halo Master Chief Collection, and Halo MCC is actively being worked on by Valve & Microsoft. *despite running BattlEye now, the Destiny devs have a deep-seated trauma from their game being derailed by cheaters for the years prior before BattlEye, and thus make very obtuse choices like not allowing overlays or not flipping the BattlEye Proton switch and allowing Destiny 2 to run on Proton
  - bilegeek 4y ago
    Those services support Linux, but like you noted, not all the games that use the services do. (adding to your Destiny example, Fortnite has explicitly been denied[3] Linux support.) [1]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/1441477816311291906 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/144147781631129... [2]https://areweanticheatyet.com/ https://areweanticheatyet.com/ [3]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1490519194915459072 https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/149051919491...

judge2020 4y ago

AutoHDR is 1000% better in my experience. Still some quirks, like Windows Key+Shift+S Screenshots not being tone mapped on my HDR monitor sometimes, but otherwise W10 HDR wasn't too pleasant.

kyriakos 4y ago

After waiting for 22H2 I finally upgraded (in place). It feels faster and looks like my 16gb of ram fill up slower which I attribute to improved memory management. All my multi device Bluetooth issues are also gone (had problems with Bose headphones disconnecting, Bluetooth keyboard not working a times using Windows 10). I did install startallback so I can have vertical taskbar and modified registry to bring the Windows 10 right click menu back (which to be fair to Microsoft wouldn't be needed if my other software would use the win 11 APIs to add options to the menu) Generally my experience after 2 weeks is good.

bilegeek 4y ago

Nested Hyper-V on AMD hardware. (Though ironically, the biggest users of this feature I'm aware of are Linux VFIO enthusiasts trying to run multiplayer games in a VM.)

cameronh90 4y ago

Windows 10 gets very confused when you have monitors with different DPIs and you're switching between them, which is very common for me nowadays. Windows 11 doesn't seem to have any problems. It also has better HDR support and feels faster to me.

briHass 4y ago

I think MS is just playing around with different UI concepts and seeing what users will tolerate in 11 before cleaning everything up in Win 12 just before the support ends for 10. At work, we're still on Win 10, with no plan to move to 11, which mirrors my strategy at home. I also largely avoided Win 8, staying on 7 almost until 10 was released, which was a tolerable 'fix' of 8's experimental features.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago

I'd switch today if Valve could fix all the problems with their VR kit on Linux. Yes, even though that means ~$1000 in hardware costs for me to buy a new headset and base stations and whatnot. Microsoft has managed to burn so much of what made Windows my preferred OS away that I'm willing to put up with Linux Desktop's bullshit instead.

manimino 4y ago
Linux desktop since 2016 here. The nice part about the Linux bullshit is that it's always the same bullshit. You don't get brand new bullshit shoved at you. It's nice to feel like you really own your software.

nullandvoid 4y ago

Devils advocate I upgraded last week (after holding off for a long time) and it's working well for me. Memory management seems much better with WSL / in general (not having to restart nearly as much). I make use of virtual desktops a lot, and the no animation when switching between them is a nice QOL, but one I couldn't go back on. You can make everything less hostile quickly by removing the search bar, and removing the "search web" feature in start menu etc in a couple of minutes.

tracker1 4y ago
WSL virtual environment will allocate memory during use, but won't release it... in earlier releases it would use up everything... in more recent versions (not sure when the cut from 10/11 was), it will limit to half system ram... You can set this manually with a config file in your home directory. WSLg is limited to Win11 though, even though it was in the insiders builds for 10 before 11 came out. Win11 isn't too bad, but the increases in effectively advertorial software, ads in search results and breaking twice on me, my desktop is on my Linux drive most of the time, and I'll probably remove my Windows drive altogether (nvme/pcie adapter) for a 10gb nic.
- khaledh 4y ago
  > WSLg is limited to Win11 though WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
  - tracker1 4y ago
    At this point, the only Windows system I use is my work computer, and it's too locked down for me to update WSL or Windows to a new release cycle (21H2). Glad WSLg is on Win10 at this point though... Was really a turning point imo for working inside WSL... VS Code remote dev is also invaluable, but not the same as actual *nix apps.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

Windows 11 has finally fixed bluetooth - in 10 you get two audio devices", bluetooth stereo and bluetooth hands-free. When you are watching a video, and someone calls, your headseet switches to a 'hands-free' mode and all sound that is still streaming to the stereo audio device dissapears into a black hole. Windows 11 actually understands that this is a single audio device and handles bluetooth mode switching for you. This removed a mahor painpoint for me. Otherwise, in my opinion, its a normal mixed bad - something is better, something is worse. Meh.

nightski 4y ago

I went to Windows 11 on my laptop and hate it. Windows 10 will stay on my desktop for as long as possible. That said, there is one thing that really bothers me. They only added support for the 6GHz Wi-Fi protocol in 11 (as part of WiFi 6e). So I can't use the 6 GHz channel on my desktop. It's really annoying.

CommanderData 4y ago
There's many features being released for 11 only. Seemingly to incentivise people to switch. Windows subsystem for Android being another (beta). I have seen Uni student buy Apple laptops after their Windows laptops have automatically upgraded or by mistake and they hated the experience. Connected OS to your MS account, gear up for operating system level Ads and counter productive UI. I think this will finally have me buy a Mac and use Unity for VMware if I need to run something Windows related. Thanks Microsoft.