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Win11 has been a trash OS for me. Laggy on great hardware, ads, BSODs, reliability issues, and more. Not to mention devices like audio interfaces not working ou

Win11 has been a trash OS for me. Laggy on great hardware, ads, BSODs, reliability issues, and more. Not to mention devices like audio interfaces not working out of the box, despite working out of the box on Mac & Linux. Such an annoying operating system. It’s easily the least reliable OS I’ve used in the past 5 years of using Linux, Mac, and windows regularly. The only one that’s crashed on me frequently. So it’s good they’re adding this tool, but sucks that these scenarios are so common a tool like this is needed. However, I’ve seen issues where something gets corrupted, a sfc scannow check is triggered on reboot, and never finds anything. Windows diagnostic troubleshooting is very painful because the OS doesn't give you much information, and what’s there is very obscure. So if this tool is built on that shoddy foundation, I’m not sure it’ll be very successful. There are thousands of guides suggesting an sfcscannow or other disk check and they never work.

Incipient 1y ago
For reference I used to be a Microsoft advocate in XP days, but since then I have decline. Feels like since Azure started them become money hungry. On topic, I don't have an alternative for Windows. I have plenty of issues with Linux "just working" (sound, graphics, etc).
gavinray 1y ago
Win11 was great for me, but recently the shoe-horning of Copilot/AI into everything has been degrading my experience. The worst of it being Notepad. I use Notepad _constantly_. I am always pasting little bits of text or drafts of things in ephemeral tabs for later reference. For the first time in Windows history, there is PERCEIVABLE FUCKING LATENCY trying to type ... in NOTEPAD.EXE Idk what the execs are smoking there, but they need to fix this ASAP.
- anthk 1y ago
  Use Notepad2. https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/screenshots https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/screenshots
  - pipes 1y ago
    Or notepad++
  - nipperkinfeet 1y ago
    Use the newest fork, https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4 https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4. That's what I switched to when Microsoft started bloating up Notepad.
- EvanAnderson 1y ago
  The new Notepad can be removed. I'm on mobile right now and don't have the docs handy, but it will be a Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage command in PowerShell. The old Notepad is still there once you remove the odious new one.
  - gavinray 1y ago
    Oh, that is great to know, thank you!
flohofwoe 1y ago
Here's a good picture for everything that's wrong with the Windows team (or rather their management idiots): I got one of those Win10 fullscreen "let's finish setting up your system" popups yesterday (I finished the setup a couple of years ago thanks - instead it's just an euphemism for "let's re-enable all the annoying and useless things you specifically disabled"), and it doesn't have the "Skip" button anymore, instead it now says "Remind me in 3 days" >:(
- goosedragons 1y ago
  You can turn those off in Settings, System -> Notifications -> Additional Settings -> Check box for suggestions to get the most out of Windows. So scummy they hide it there though.
timtim51251 1y ago
Maybe you should reinstall. I upgraded from Win 10 and have no issues.

Incipient 1y ago

For reference I used to be a Microsoft advocate in XP days, but since then I have decline. Feels like since Azure started them become money hungry. On topic, I don't have an alternative for Windows. I have plenty of issues with Linux "just working" (sound, graphics, etc).

gavinray 1y ago

Win11 was great for me, but recently the shoe-horning of Copilot/AI into everything has been degrading my experience. The worst of it being Notepad. I use Notepad _constantly_. I am always pasting little bits of text or drafts of things in ephemeral tabs for later reference. For the first time in Windows history, there is PERCEIVABLE FUCKING LATENCY trying to type ... in NOTEPAD.EXE Idk what the execs are smoking there, but they need to fix this ASAP.

anthk 1y ago
Use Notepad2. https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/screenshots https://xhmikosr.github.io/notepad2-mod/screenshots
- pipes 1y ago
  Or notepad++
- nipperkinfeet 1y ago
  Use the newest fork, https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4 https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4. That's what I switched to when Microsoft started bloating up Notepad.
EvanAnderson 1y ago
The new Notepad can be removed. I'm on mobile right now and don't have the docs handy, but it will be a Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage command in PowerShell. The old Notepad is still there once you remove the odious new one.
- gavinray 1y ago
  Oh, that is great to know, thank you!

flohofwoe 1y ago

Here's a good picture for everything that's wrong with the Windows team (or rather their management idiots): I got one of those Win10 fullscreen "let's finish setting up your system" popups yesterday (I finished the setup a couple of years ago thanks - instead it's just an euphemism for "let's re-enable all the annoying and useless things you specifically disabled"), and it doesn't have the "Skip" button anymore, instead it now says "Remind me in 3 days" >:(

goosedragons 1y ago
You can turn those off in Settings, System -> Notifications -> Additional Settings -> Check box for suggestions to get the most out of Windows. So scummy they hide it there though.

timtim51251 1y ago

Maybe you should reinstall. I upgraded from Win 10 and have no issues.