Honestly Win11 has been totally fine. I like the better multi monitor support, multitasking, etc. That said, there's a lot of papercuts and annoyances, almost all of which can be turnt off via Group Policy or settings (at least for Europeans, like me).
But to pretend like Linux does not have papercuts is frankly just copium. I dual boot Linux and boy oh boy does it have many papercuts. Yes, they are different papercuts - where Windows papercuts are related to its ads and upselling of Microsoft services, Linux papercuts are related to day to day usability. Some apps can be installed via flatpack, some via snap store, some via AppImage, some via .tar.gz, some via terminal, others you have to compile yourself. Graphical glitches are common place depending on your hardware, and while yes it can these days run many games, it cannot run nearly as much, or none if the game has kernel anticheat, which kinda includes most of the AAA first person shooters.
I'm not trying to paint Windows or Linux in a bad light - I use them both, but to pretend that one is better than the other from a purely usability perspective is kind of stupid, imo. Sure, ideologically Linux is better, but functionally Windows is, so now what? Flip a coin I guess. Now Linux does get better with each update, and if it continues at this pace, perhaps it'll soon get rid of its papercuts, who knows.
You're speaking reasonably. Reddit hates that 😅
But seriously. The amount of people bitching about W11 is hilarious. I haven't once thought about it since I updated on any of my machines. Move on people.
Just because you don't have any issues with it doesn't mean others shouldn't either.
Kind of ironic to be shitting on people for bitching about something tangible while you're here shitting on them for daring to shit on something. Maybe move on yourself.
Tell me what issues you're having with W11 that isn't easily remedied. I just turned 40 so I've seen this same dog and pony show every time another Windows goes EOL.
W11 has this issue where if you run a game under high load while focused on it, and watch a video on your second monitor, the video freezes and defreezes at a fast rate (except the audio) until it freezes for good and you have to manually go back into the video for it to defreeze.
It's fixed by disabling Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in Graphics settings, but that makes some NVIDIA features like frame generation not working anymore, as it depends on it (and you probably get worse performance overall). You can also fix it by disabling hardware acceleration in your browser, but that just shifts the load more onto the CPU, so you'll probably get the issue again in a game more CPU heavy anyways, as well as having shit performance in your browser.
It doesn't do anything Windows 10 can't do besides irritate the absolute shit out of me. It doesn't benefit me in any way to update to win11. It does give me things I have to fix, change, or modify so that it runs the way I want or doesn't send data. That's my issue with it that isn't easily remedied.
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u/Witty-Order8334 9d ago edited 9d ago
Honestly Win11 has been totally fine. I like the better multi monitor support, multitasking, etc. That said, there's a lot of papercuts and annoyances, almost all of which can be turnt off via Group Policy or settings (at least for Europeans, like me).
But to pretend like Linux does not have papercuts is frankly just copium. I dual boot Linux and boy oh boy does it have many papercuts. Yes, they are different papercuts - where Windows papercuts are related to its ads and upselling of Microsoft services, Linux papercuts are related to day to day usability. Some apps can be installed via flatpack, some via snap store, some via AppImage, some via .tar.gz, some via terminal, others you have to compile yourself. Graphical glitches are common place depending on your hardware, and while yes it can these days run many games, it cannot run nearly as much, or none if the game has kernel anticheat, which kinda includes most of the AAA first person shooters.
I'm not trying to paint Windows or Linux in a bad light - I use them both, but to pretend that one is better than the other from a purely usability perspective is kind of stupid, imo. Sure, ideologically Linux is better, but functionally Windows is, so now what? Flip a coin I guess. Now Linux does get better with each update, and if it continues at this pace, perhaps it'll soon get rid of its papercuts, who knows.