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Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 10:24 am
by laser
I'm starting to get messages on on Windows 10 PC about this. Has anyone installed it? How's it going? Recommend?
One of my considerations is if I need to get O365 and turf my desktop versions of office.

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 12:04 pm
by Psyber
I had a look at the W 11 promotion info and decided "nah!" for now.

One concern is that, on my first quick reading, it seems it would force me to use Outlook or some MS new equivalent for email, and possibly MS Office.
I prefer independent alternatives. I'll have a closer look later, but won't rush in.

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:14 am
by laser
Psyber wrote:I had a look at the W 11 promotion info and decided "nah!" for now.

One concern is that, on my first quick reading, it seems it would force me to use Outlook or some MS new equivalent for email, and possibly MS Office.
I prefer independent alternatives. I'll have a closer look later, but won't rush in.


Tend to agree, thanks for the info.

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:25 am
by amber_fluid
I’ve updated and all is good.
All my favourite websites still work

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:29 am
by gadj1976
amber_fluid wrote:I’ve updated and all is good.
All my favourite websites still work

:shock: :lol:

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:20 pm
by Footy Chick
I just came to ask the same question, mine asked me to upgrade today - any further considerations from anyone that's upgraded already?

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:46 pm
by Psyber
I had to buy my wife a new laptop and it came with Windows 11. I managed, after some fiddling around, to turn off the preset back up to onedrive and install my own external plug in back up system. It is a pain though!

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:16 am
by dedja
Glad I’m an Apple fanboi … Windows 10 support ends on Oct 14 this year, but MS are heavily restricting which devices can upgrade to Windows 11.

There’s going to a lot of unsupported devices after that date … muppets :lol:

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:30 am
by amber_fluid
dedja wrote:Glad I’m an Apple fanboi … Windows 10 support ends on Oct 14 this year, but MS are heavily restricting which devices can upgrade to Windows 11.

There’s going to a lot of unsupported devices after that date … muppets :lol:


Apple make you upgrade more than Microsoft though

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:48 am
by dedja
amber_fluid wrote:
dedja wrote:Glad I’m an Apple fanboi … Windows 10 support ends on Oct 14 this year, but MS are heavily restricting which devices can upgrade to Windows 11.

There’s going to a lot of unsupported devices after that date … muppets :lol:


Apple make you upgrade more than Microsoft though


No, not necessarily.

MacOS support is usually about 7 years, but Apple will still provide security updates for ‘unsupported’ Macs for many years after that, so older devices work fine for a long time after not receiving full OS updates.

Plus MacOS updates have ways been free, whilst MS upgrades were paid only for a long time, and now it’s a dog’s breakfast whether you have to pay or receive a free upgrade.

From a TCO perspective, Macs are usually a better investment, despite the perceived higher initial cost … plus the hardware shits on anything Windows runs on unless you’re a gamer (which I’m not).

YMMV though …

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:08 pm
by Jimmy_041
Its crap - they are trying to compulsorily make us use their systems

The cunz keep downgrading me to W11 even though I have auto updates turned off
I just upgrade back to W10 and tell them to eff off for feedback

Mrs Jimmy has found several problems with her work. It wont let her use some of her non-MS programs

GF'd Gates & your elves :butthead:

Re: Windows 11 - yeah or nah

PostPosted: Thu Jan 02, 2025 12:21 pm
by dedja
Jimmy_041 wrote:Its crap - they are trying to compulsorily make us use their systems

The cunz keep downgrading me to W11 even though I have auto updates turned off
I just upgrade back to W10 and tell them to eff off for feedback

Mrs Jimmy has found several problems with her work. It wont let her use some of her non-MS programs

GF'd Gates & your elves :butthead:


If you haven’t done so already, create a bootable Windows 10 install usb, otherwise those same carnts may remove the Windows 10 download and online install once it’s out of support.