I…didn’t think windows 12 was actually a thing but here we are?
These are just the pictures of windows 11, just they made the taskbar float off the bottom
It seems suicidal of Microsoft to release the simplistic version as the first pictures again though…
Unless something changes, there will be options to move the buttons to the left of the bar and make it look closer to older versions again. Of course they could decide not to go that route, but they did this exact same awful release with 11.
…and we’ll be calling it windowsOS 12. It has a revolutionary taskbar which is so new that we gave it an innovative new name: Dack!
Remember when Windows 10 was “the last operating system”?
Here’s a good article about that: https://www.pcworld.com/article/394724/why-is-there-a-windows-11-if-windows-10-is-the-last-windows.html
Apparently that wasn’t really ever Microsoft’s official stance.
Yeah, it was supposed to be a subscription model that they would continuously update. They have not lived up to that promise…
They probably did a user survey and found out that moving windows to a subscription would cause 100% of users to switch to Mac / Linux
Pepperidge farm remembers. I had the same thought. lol
“the highly anticipated Windows 12” riiiiight…
I’ve tried almost a dozen distros in the last couple of days. Only a couple of them see my second monitor, and none of them pick up my WiFi card. Guess what does every time? Windows 11. It’s been rock solid, fast and smooth.
Now I could put in a usb adapter for WiFi and fiddle around to get the other monitor to liven up, but I shouldn’t have to. I did this for Manjaro, and I was hopeful. On the second day it crapped out.
I didn’t want to like Windows. I used to be a die hard Mac boy, my first computer was a Mac portable. Apple polo shirt, tie and lapel pins, wallet, watch with Apple logo. I even printed my own t-shirts. ‘The box said Windows 95 or better, so I bought a Mac’ etc.
Gave up a few years ago when they became more fashion items than tools.
I’ve tinkered with Linux since Hardy Heron and Mandriva, and Chromebooks since they first came out. It always needed tinkering, nothing just worked for too long. Mac did. Mind you, Windows was crappy back then though.
Perhaps it’s because I’m on the Windows Insider programme but I really have no problem with 11. OK it has some guff that I don’t need but I’ve removed that. And sure it’s not as customisable as Linux distros, then again neither is Mac.
For me 11 just works. It syncs to my phone as soon as it’s in range. KDE Connect never did. I can run Android apps now (yes I know Chromebooks can) so Samsung Notes is my go to Notes app ever since Evernote went down the pan. OneNote is a pile of old fish parts.
I’ll keep trying distros though, I have to as my old HP laptop which dual boots MX Linux (that’s been flawless on the laptop) and Peppermint, won’t run Windows 11. I have a ‘new’ older laptop coming soon and that probably won’t run 12 ;-)
But for now the daily driver is Windows 11.
Blimus, that was longer than I expected 😮
chromeOS meets early KDE4. Weird. I don’t like Windows 11 either so but I managed to get rid of most of the crap. Should’ve gone for Windows 10 on my gaming machine but since I use Ubuntu 99% of the time, it’s not worth the effort. At least I figured out how to install and use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. I’d rather depend on Steam on Linux than use a computer with a Microsoft account hooked in.
I’m seriously wondering if we’ve hit rock button in terms of UI flatness.
“Windows 10 will be the last Windows.”
Anyone remember?
I’m glad I did the jump to Linux after 7, after the Windows 10 trial suicided and took my entire C: partition with it without any success of recovery.I remember that. Win 8 was me reminding people as I refused to update. It seems that every other Windows release is any good. Maybe 12 will be.
I probably don’t need to ask, at this point, but will there be an agenda flyout back again?
Key features include subscription fees, only-online capacity, baked in popup ads in every folder and directory, is slower than windows 7, and also streams your webcam to anyone who pays them enough.
/hj
Don’t understand why it’s so hard to create a consistent, clean looking windows UI. I get having to support ancient apps but so much of the experience feels unpolished
KDE developers: okay so we’re gonna switch to a floating taskbar so we look less like a Windows clone
Windows developers: hey guys I have a crazy idea
with a 64-bit chip operating at a frequency of at least 1000 megahertz continuing to meet the requirements
Wrong. The requirement for Windows 11 is “processor introduced on the market after the year 2018, with absolutely no regards on its computational power” (with a single exception to the specific CPU of the $3500 Microsoft surface studio because they continued to sell the machine with the same old processor for five years)
For example an i7-7700K is “unsupported” but the much slower and with less features atom-based Celeron j4005 is “supported”.
The hardware requirements are completely artificial and clearly decided in agreement with Intel and AMD in order to sell more new computers
Is 2018 maybe when TPM modules started going on every motherboard?
Tpm was definately included in the 7000 series intels, along with nvme support etc.
That said tpm 2 is a bit more recent and more secure. That said. It’s lazyness on the part of Microsoft to require tpm 2
No, most tpm implementation nowadays are integrated in the CPU. And Intel 6th gen onwards have tpm 2.0 in the CPU, but they’re not supported for “reasons”
The i7-7700k is my exact CPU, and I was wondering why my update screen always claimed I was out of spec for Win 11. Then I did some digging and it seems that some CPUs are more equal than others in that regard. Then I got Win 11 on my work computer and didn’t want Win 11 anymore.
Windows 11 still feels like a beta… Have they completely given up on quality?
How does it feel like a beta exactly? What doesn’t work?
I’m so damn glad I helped my whole family move over to Linux years ago.
I dunno how I feel about it. My desktop which is a port of 10-> 11 is fine. My laptop which is a w11 native, is all fucked up. The file path is c/wahots/Onedrive/desktop, and onedrive is broken, so I can’t save files to certain directories. Even remapping directories doesn’t work. It’s a miserable experience. I’m thinking of backing up everything and getting some sort of clean license, as this Asus one is all fucked up.
You can always just format it.
It should be digitally licensed. So installing a fresh copy will automatically activate.
That being said, you should also be able to search for “Reset this PC” in your start menu and choose “Remove everything”. That will effectively give you a fresh install without creating installation media.
Won’t that give me the dirty factory image with all the BS like McAfee, amorycrate, all that?
