And if you are a gamer, you can use Proton on a civilized OS. It's gotten real good.
Windows 11 is awful.
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I have no clue why but I can't send any screenshots or photos so I'll try summarizing it.
Windows 11 is awful and will be going back to windows 10 with the new pc I'm putting together. Windows 11 runs absolutely unnecessary background processes and windows processes. My current gaming laptop specs should be able to handle what I do on my computer but instead a small game running will cause my laptop to get hot (already it gets a bit warm from just all the stuff running in the background THAT I DIDN'T INSTALL. Everything on there either was there or is new from the update.) Without running any personally installed applications, my window/background processes my task manager says I use NEARLY HALF of my CPU and around 30 Memory. I have tried ending tasks in the task manager but they continue to pop up and I attempted to uninstall the programs causing it but can't delete any of them because my SYSTEM can only make changes to those. I have looked here for an answer and have done just about everything Microsoft 'claims' to help. What's worse is I don't know what is SAFE to uninstall if I do figure it out. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO GET A NEW GAMING COMPUTER/LAPTOP DON'T GET WINDOWS 11 UNLESS YOU'RE A MASTER WIZARD AT UNINSTALLING OR HAVE A BUNCH OF CPU/MEMORY. I'm apparently not the only one having this particular problem where Windows runs way too many processes in the background, several friends of mine refuse to upgrade from windows 10 to windows 11 because of it.
I don't know if there's a way to go back because it's been a bit but I'd much prefer going back to windows 10.
Personally, I would prefer windows 8 (the biggest failure of them all) over windows 11. I'd rather have a hard time navigating around on my computer than hardly being able to use it for its intended purpose.
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics 1.80 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (13.8 GB usable)
Device ID 0662E79D-D3FB-4DE4-81F8-F79964A0CC5A
Product ID 00325-97249-48126-AAOEM
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Pen support
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Anonymous
2024-12-09T19:21:52+00:00 I was forced into to the change by our IT, so can't upgrade back to Windows 10 or XP, which worked well for me. I really hate windows 11.
I don't know about any of the big issues people are having but there are numerous small things (I keep discovering more) that used to be easy and logical and now are more complicated or take extra clicks.
Lots of stupid small changes that don't improve anything.
Really aggravating.
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Anonymous
2024-12-10T04:42:57+00:00 The same build PC I was on, I reinstalled Windows 10. I was getting 42 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 on Ultra, now I'm getting 68. Unacceptable.
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Anonymous
2024-12-10T04:46:22+00:00 The idea of having to troubleshoot why something doesn't work for weeks while on a Windows OS I can install it and it works 100% of the time out of the box is why I would never go Linux. My storage platform is Linux and it takes enough of my life.