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What's the experience with Windows 11? I haven't upgraded because Microsoft doesn't have a great track record of not screwing things, and I would hate their upg

by dsign 1y ago

What's the experience with Windows 11? I haven't upgraded because Microsoft doesn't have a great track record of not screwing things, and I would hate their upgrade process to destroy the data in my harddrives. Which means I'll have to buy a NAS and do a full backup of everything before upgrading, and then pray that that software I bought years ago and that since then have transitioned to cough-money-monthly (like Zbrush) will not stop working. All in all, the risk of updating Windows for me is about several thousands dollars. If they charged a flat fee of 100 USD/year per user for maintaining Windows 10, I would pay; it would be a no brainer.

heisgone 1y ago
We upgrated about 400 computers to 24H2 in the last two months and it wasn't too much of an issue. It's largely the same OS underneath. In term of UI, the only improvement is tabbed file explorer (but some might not like it). Other UI change are for the worse (worse task bar, can't make it bigger, notifications only show part of the message (and you can't get the full message even by clicking, more stuff moved to the problematic settings menu, etc).
- dsign 1y ago
  Thanks. I'm not happy about worse UI, but it gives me hopes that at least the upgrade and the compatibility are okey.
mystified5016 1y ago
It's very comparable to the difference between 10 and 7. Microsoft glued on an extra layer of fugly UI over the existing workable UI and just left it to rot. If you right click something to bring up the context menu, you get a gross liquid ass style menu and then you have to click through to open the classic context menu to get the option you want. Why. Literally what is the point of this?! Everything is worse, more annoying, and uglier in various quantities. They actually even managed to make Bluetooth even worse than in W10, which is frankly an astonishing achievement
- amatecha 1y ago
  Yeah, it's so bad. Change for the sake of change.. Absolutely zero benefit for people who use this OS

by dsign 1y ago

heisgone 1y ago

We upgrated about 400 computers to 24H2 in the last two months and it wasn't too much of an issue. It's largely the same OS underneath. In term of UI, the only improvement is tabbed file explorer (but some might not like it). Other UI change are for the worse (worse task bar, can't make it bigger, notifications only show part of the message (and you can't get the full message even by clicking, more stuff moved to the problematic settings menu, etc).

dsign 1y ago
Thanks. I'm not happy about worse UI, but it gives me hopes that at least the upgrade and the compatibility are okey.

mystified5016 1y ago

It's very comparable to the difference between 10 and 7. Microsoft glued on an extra layer of fugly UI over the existing workable UI and just left it to rot. If you right click something to bring up the context menu, you get a gross liquid ass style menu and then you have to click through to open the classic context menu to get the option you want. Why. Literally what is the point of this?! Everything is worse, more annoying, and uglier in various quantities. They actually even managed to make Bluetooth even worse than in W10, which is frankly an astonishing achievement

amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, it's so bad. Change for the sake of change.. Absolutely zero benefit for people who use this OS