BOOMY wrote: ↑05 Oct 2021 06:55 pm
So is win 11 something I need to care about?
Why did they upgrade?
Do i need to upgrade?
what are the benefits if any?
School me, as I have not cared or heard a thing about it.
At the moment, it's just a (significantly) prettier version of Windows 10. There's no real performance increases, and apparently if you enable Virtualisation Based Security (which actually sounds nifty), it's a huge performance hit in gaming. VBS would be especially good for enterprise users.
Buuuut as with all things Microsoft, the progressions come with very confusing regressions. If Windows 10 was the Xbox 360, then Windows 11 is the Xbox One. The new Start Menu is alright, but if you disable recent files, then you can't use half of its available space. The centred Start button is an Accessibility nightmare, and the inability to move the taskbar to a different edge of the screen is inconceivably stupid UX design. The new Settings app is very nice indeed, but even though it's supposed to replace the Control Panel in the long run, they've... managed to make the Control Panel when more useful than ever before?
Also, Teams is now integrated into Windows directly. Make of that what you will, I guess.
Oh. And if your PC is older than Intel 8x00 or AMD Ryzen 2x00, well you're screwed and can't officially run it anyway.
The number of completely idiotic small changes - imo - utterly overwhelms any improvements they've made. I think the biggest selling point of Windows 11 is VBS, but I think that's available in W10, and isn't at all relevant to almost all home users anyway.
This isn't like with previous releases where even the stupid choices were offset by significant technology improvements.