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Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11::Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 175 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No shit...people don't want more ads and normal features hidden behind 12 new windows/tabs..

Stop fucking with the os and maybe people will want to continue with it .

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, they neglected to mention ads once in that article. I'm pretty sure that's the reason why no one wants it. I uninstalled it after like 20 minutes upon seeing the ridiculous amount of ads on a fresh install.

[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I don't understand how there's a whole article of "no one is using it" and the author then states "it's OK, there's nothing wrong with it".

If there's nothing wrong with it, why is no one using it?

Maybe because 11 is fucking awful. Maybe it's the ads. Maybe it's removing fuck tons of features for no apparent reason. Maybe it's the fucking awful design choices.

But no, the author just says "every decision has haters, people just hate it because it's different"

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“it’s OK, there’s nothing wrong with it”

This person probably uses corporate laptop connected to an Active Directory server which has disabled all the questionable features via group policy. Because that's what I'm using.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It was a shock using 11 pro after having been forced into using LTSC at work, they're almost unrecognizable they're so different.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At the risk of being pilloried here….

I’ve been using windows 11 at home and work for over a year now. It’s fine. I’ve not seen ads aside from easily removed links to apps (not even fully installed apps, just links to install them), I don’t see removed functionality. It’s not slow.

It doesn’t make me cum, it’s also not terrible - it’s fine. Just like every windows except ME and early Vista.

I like tabs in explorer and the new task manager. Dark mode notepad is nice. I got used to the start menu because across macOS and windows, I just keyboard shortcut -> completion match search to launch things.

This is the same cycle I’ve seen since 98SE.

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[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 70 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Windows 10 replaced 7 for most people because 8 was a piece of junk. Windows 7 was old by the time 10 came out so there was pent up demand and 10 was a pretty solid showing.

There’s not much that’s compelling about 11 and they’ve introduced unwanted things. It shouldn’t be surprising that people prefer to stay on 10, which is one of the better operating systems Microsoft has ever released. Combine that with the dominance of Linux in the server space and what seems like increased adoption on the desktop and it’s a recipe for poor numbers. For a lot of developers, it’s easier being on a Linux desktop when Linux is the deployment target.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I saw in my old line of work that most business over a certain size just have a few key programs that need to work and could not give two shits about whatever new OS was out if it could not run those programs. The fact that in places like the banking sector many of the programs are UNIX era and need emulation just to use on a desktop and not being spied is often a requirement it would make no sense what so ever to upgrade. I have also seen an uptick in Linux and Mac workstations as both are looking more attractive then the wild ride windows has become.

Oh and in case people think security on older OS is a concern for companies I know for a fact that several ATMs in north America are still running on XP (upgraded about 7 years ago from 2000).

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My last gig was as a CIO in a fairly large organization and we had stringent infosec requirements due to the industry we were in. Old operating systems and software are absolutely an issue, although it still doesn’t stop some companies from running them.

Most of the malware going around exploits patched vulnerabilities. It literally takes seconds and not exactly a high skill level to compromise a machine that’s missing security updates. Regular patching is without a doubt one of the best controls you can have in place. The other big issue was social engineering. If you don’t effectively tackle those two things it doesn’t matter what else you do because you will be breached.

Besides that, you’re mostly right. We were all over the security updates but didn’t care for other upgrades because they introduce instability. It’s the last thing you want with thousands of endpoints and a bunch of shitty enterprise apps. Run it until the wheels fall off or it’s approaching EOL for security updates.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh sorry if it came across as old software not being a security issue just that most places don't care or plan around it (those ATMs running XP are running a very stripped and locked down version).

I remember quite a few places paying extra for a little bit longer for updates just due to how rough the change was going to be. I think most of the time when something did go wrong at a place it was (in this order):

  • Social engineering
  • Some sort of update that was not tested enough (or at all)
  • A new roll out going bad (this happened way more then it should have)
  • Hardware failure (often because a sales guy did not know the difference between "redundancy" and "reduced failure rate"
  • Actual disaster (I remember getting calls about a bank networking device calling home with fan errors as the building it was in was floating down the river)
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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Windows 10 replaced 7 for most people because 8 was a piece of junk.

Mostly true; most people who wound up with 8 or 8.1 did so by buying a computer during that brief period of time, few people wanted it, few people liked it, and many people avoided using it. Especially computer enthusiasts did in fact go from 7 to 10.

Windows 7 was old by the time 10 came out so there was pent up demand and 10 was a pretty solid showing.

That's not how I remember events. When Windows 10 was young it was not very popular; they got a lot of backlash for that "Upgrade to Windows 10! [yes] [not yet]" pop-up that took no answer as a yes and installed the OS on idling computers overnight.

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[–] skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Honestly I feel like people would pay more for a simple windowsOS, no spyware, no ads, just fucking works as an OS. I already switched to Linux but some people haven't or can't at the moment.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 20 points 1 year ago

I would also like one that isn't: "this is the last one I promise. Oops I released another windows like 3 years into it. Guess what gamers, you need it or you can't get future improvements."

It's win10 with dx12 all over again...

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[–] Gerula@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"Windows 11 is simply OK. There's nothing particularly wrong with it except for its hardware requirements."

Wtf? It's just ok? It's a resource hog, excelling at one thing: spyware implementation.

Have you seen the new Taskbar? It has the functionality of a wooden stick. They even had to make a damn patch to put the "Start Task Manager" option back in the context menu! They fucked up the menus and now everything is just "several hundred clicks away".

And their constant push for subscription based shit is just annoying like hell.

L.E. typo

[–] zingo@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Linux Desktop is the future, might as well start to get familiar with it now, why wait?

Just like Linux is the great leader in server space.

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[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 11 isn't a particularly bad version of Windows by any stretch of the imagination. Some elements of the user interface might grate a little, and there will always be users for whom one design choice or another will be loudly rejected – there were those, after all, who raged at the imposition of the Start Menu over the Program Manager of old. But the operating system itself is... fine.

The enshitification of Windows has been going on a long time.

I don't want the latest flavor in my devices.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 18 points 1 year ago

They've been getting a lot more aggressive with forcing preloaded apps, and advertising by the way of 'recommendations' or 'suggestions' and they keep making it harder to disable. Forced bing web search, forced 'AI' integration... It's pretty bad these days. Windows 7 feels like the last version that you could actually run lean without risking stability.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If microsoft would just put out a modernized version of windows 95 it would probably be seen as "visionary" and be perfect for like what eighty percent of people and businesses, I just want a modern windows that unnoticeable and secure

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, if there was just a modern windows XP that could run the programs I dualboot for, I wouldn't be dualbooting!

Modern windows is just so bloated and cluttered.

[–] em2@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was gutted when I had to move on from XP. Bring it back!

[–] Garden_Ramsay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I've been using windows all my life and I've never seen anyone not say this about "their" version. Except ME. Fuck ME.

But seriously my dad refused to switch to Windows from DOS for the longest time. 95? The best. 98? Can't upgrade. Xp or die. 7 forever. 10 or bust. In 10 years it will be people clamoring over 11 and refusing to switch.

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I went through all the trouble of enabling the UEFI/BIOS stuff I needed for the upgrade. Then I found out what they did to the taskbar and decided not to get it.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I checked, the third highest voted feature request in the built-in feedback tool is to take the recommended section out of the start menu. A couple years after launch the best we got is the product manager saying “we added an option to reduce the size :)” So it’s definitely intended for advertising, and I don’t do advertising. The professional version used to allow people to customise away that kind of bullshit, but not on W11.

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[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 11 was mostly released to take advantage of Intel's split of CPU cores into efficiency and performance cores (E and P cores). If you don't care about these E-cores or don't have them, Windows 11 looks like just a small UI change at first glance.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What if any advantage does the P/E cores have when weighed against the bloat? It can't be power related as those CPUs last time I checked are still hogs.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

On a desktop system? Cost to manufacture. Simpler cores are more space-efficient per IPS (instructions per second) and thus you can squeeze more IPS on a given area of die and die area is money.

In areas where you care about power and heat budget (mobile, datacenter-scale servers) you also get advantages in those terms. What you lose is the sheer single-thread speed of the beefy CPU cores, but then not everything needs to be that fast. Small cores also keep random small loads off the beefy cores (say: move the mouse pointer) meaning that those don't have to context-switch that often meaning the get to run more instead of waiting for data.

It definitely makes sense to have a couple of them around though they're not going to make or break a CPU, at least not on the desktop. ARM processors have been using that scheme for ages (called big.LITTLE), hardly surprising seeing as practically everything mobile runs ARM. Also Linux had scheduling support for those kinds of architectures for ages, MS definitely didn't have to roll out a whole new OS version for that.

Fun side note: AMD's mini Zen 4 cores are in a sense the exact same cores as their usual Zen 4 cores: They have the same gate layout. What they do is pack them differently (and giving them half the L3 cache), achieving only ~3GHz instead of the full 5.5GHz for the full cores, but fitting two mini cores into the same area as one big core.

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[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went Windows 10 > Linux Mint

I have nothing to complain about. Lateral move in terms of functionality. In terms of general freedom and feeling like I actually own the PC I purchased,... 100% improvement.

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If video games weren't my primary hobby, I'd have switched already. But the gaming experience on Linux is still wanting.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worth checking into Steam and Nobara if you haven't.

[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if you're still wanting, it's wanting.

Personally I don't really touch EA or Ubisoft so, I don't miss anything, and even if I was into them, from the looks of things, I wouldn't be missing much.

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[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I thought they knew it was tradition that every second windows is dogshit.

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[–] TserriednichThe4th@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless you are willing to switch to linux, suck it up

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Steam deck baybeee, next tower is gonna follow suit with the same linux type!

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[–] Venomnik0@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

This doesn't stop Microsoft. It only encourages them to do it harder.

[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just downgraded back to Windows 10, such a relief. 11 is absolute trash. Constantly hangs, on a completely stock install with literally ONE app, a single app that I even still use Windows for that is not the cause the hang. The UI on 10 is so much simpler, and functional 11 just feels like Windows ME/Vista all over again.

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[–] markr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Obviously as much of the installed base can’t upgrade. This was done on purpose. As 10 goes eol, businesses and consumers will have to upgrade their hardware. Pushing new hardware has been msft strategy since forever.

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[–] tungah@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just try Linux, people. I bet at least 1/5 of you would be just fine with the change (I still have to dual boot because of work related stuff).

Ironically, Microsoft is making this the reality more so than Linux/GNU + Valve.

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[–] jpablo68@mujico.org 12 points 1 year ago

What did they expect? Windows 11 cannot run in anything.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Does Windows 11 still requires a TPM module?

I was forced to switch at work and the UI ergonomics itself is a major step back compared to Win 10. It's such a chore to work with. The start menu, which is one of the major features of Windows, is a disorganized mess. It looks like an iPhone app menu and you really have to focus to find the app you're looking for. Or else create folders which require an extra click. Compared to the Win10 menu where you could have big ass tiles and organize them in groups made it really easy to locate and click and you just got used to the location. I could use my Win10 start menu blindfolded.

And let's talk about the rounded corners and gaps. Win10 has no gaps. No blank spaces. Every piece of pixel real estate is used. And you know exactly what you click on. I can't say the same about win11.

And going into the settings... Well the settings button is gone from the start menu for one. You gave to right click on start and select it from the context menu. The settings have become harder to find, especially advanced settings.

And finally, my parents installed it on their home PCs. Everything is linked to their Microsoft account and it just collects heaps of data on your usage. Plus the ads. Like, what the fuck Microsoft???? I care about my privacy. I already have a god damn corporate big brother watching and listening to everything in my pocket thanks to my smart phone and every website tracking my every move on the internet. Can I at least have some privacy on my home computer and a break from ads??? Goddamn!

I made a promise that I will never switch to win11 and would rather go Linux full time when Win10 reaches end of life. I've been a long time Linux user and already started to easily enjoy gaming in Linux thanks to Steam and proton so there is very little holding me back now.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I still think 10 is a waste of space and would be using only linux or 7 if not for gamepass (old distant friends have xboxes only). I still run 7 on my living room PC and its honestly a better experience then 10. If not for end of life (that lets face it are mostly arbitrary at this point) there is little reason to upgrade, even the few things not in things 7 or 10 (like auto HDR support or new Direct X) are simply withheld for no reason and often people have worked out how make it work anyway.

I am old enough to remember how each new windows addressed a flaw in the last (even if that flaw was made up). Here is off the top of my head some examples (leaving out the better NT line) :

  • Windows 95: Upgrade from 3.1 in most ways, first time dos was really secondary.
  • Windows 98: Much better USB support and more "plug and play"
  • Windows ME: Fixed the issue of people having hard drive space.
  • Windows XP: Massive upgrade in supported hardware, usability etc.
  • Windows Vista: People thought this sucked (it did) but the main reason was that it (and x64 XP) supported more then 4 gigs of ram.
  • Windows 7: Was not Vista and much more efficient.
  • Windows 8: Fixed the perceived flaw that your PC should really be a phone for some reason?
  • Windows 9: DAMN IT MICROSOFT LEARN TO COUNT!
  • Windows 10: Was not a Phone OS. Things like gamepass are supported. Told this was the last windows.
[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My theory is that after 98 windows started to follow the "this one shit, next one good" pattern. ME was shit, XP was great, Vista was shit, 7 was great, 8 was shit, 10 is good. Obviously 11 is shit and if the pattern holds the next one will be good again.

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[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 10 points 1 year ago
[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (19 children)

This is normal Microsoft cadence: one good OS, one shitty OS.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, but that's a downward spiral. Every good version is a worse user experience than the previous good version.

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[–] zorlan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Windows 11 won't even run on most of the computers I have and those computers have still got many years of life in them. If they drop support for Windows 10 I guess I'll go all in on Linux (I just use it for my work machine at the moment).

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I would very much like to switch (back) to Linux. I used it (and FreeBSD!) 20+ years ago as my daily driver.

Unfortunately, there are a few things that keep me stuck in windows... -Music production. I know Reaper exists (I use it and script for it daily), but my Maschine hardware that I paid good money for won't run with Linux. And beyond that there's still a subset of plugins (again, that I've paid for) that I'm just not likely to be able to use, and most of that which I can use will be unsupported. -Adobe. Lightroom in particular. Eventually I will wean off this, but as of now, it's simply the best tool I have to unify all my photography (old and new) across all devices with very, very little friction.

I can find a suitable counterpart for just about everything else I use.

Also, FWIW - I recently revitalized an old laptop with Ubuntu and that's become a springboard for seeing if I can map out a path to Linux for my other needs.

(Apologies for rant - it's front of mind for me lately!)

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[–] Uni@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

It's almost like artificially limiting adoption to all computers made in ~2018 or later would do that. Software TPM 2 has been present in systems since Haswell (~2014) yet even people with Zen 1 Threadrippers got dicked out of "official" upgrade support due to their computer's age.

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