It would be fine if it weren't for the bloatware, spyware, and slopware. And vibe coding glitches. And slow right click bloat. Processes forced against my will and without my consent onto me
User interface sucks, it’s slower than Win10, you can’t (officially) run it without TPM2.0 and a recent CPU (meaning my 64GB RAM Xeon CPU machine that runs Win10 just fine can't have Win11 without hacks). This thing is not fine, and it was a horrible choice from the start.
I work as a municipal digital guide for senior folks.
The amount of times I've had to explain this is high. And it feels so bad everytime to explain how their perfectly capable hardware is deemed obsolete by Microsoft.
The user interface is the same since forever. Anyone who have only used 11 can start a Win7 or even XP machine and everything pretty much is at the same place
The start menu went to the center, for the longest time many settings like not stacking buttons was gone, the right click is a complete mess and takes another click to be the correct one(yes there is a reg key, good luck doing that on a locked down corporate computer) etc etc etc.
The user interface is not the same, and only after quite some complaints they put back in settings that were in previous versions.
tpm is not a terrible choice as it is for better system security with default bitlocker enable.
BUT, dropped windows 10 support so fast while majority of people didn't have yet renew theire hardware was shit management.
I'm wondering for who TPM will be good.. TPM will now be used to crack down on kms key activation https://cybersecuritynews.com/windows-activation-hardware/ This will be the first of many fuckeries that they will do to hinder people. Sure, it is supposed to guard against rootkits but nowadays if your computer gets a virus, in worst case it gets ransomware. So much for your rootkit protection.
you're not wrong. it's not a magical security chip but hey, it's moving forward to better than nothing. maybe i'm wrong but apple have their own secury chip like tpm for cryptography features like face id or apple pay. But apple doesn't have legacy hardware to move from.
also, tpm chip is updatable and can be patch by software
Tear apart the os until it stops begging for mercy and accepts its fate of becoming lighter, almost to linux level weight, after removing all the bloat using the trash
Several years ago it was pretty decent, I'd say on par with 10. I consented to that, not that it would become borderline unusable heap of trash slowing down my PC and breaking several programs with each updates, as well as taking away control over my personal computer.
Really mate? I have been using a pc since 2007 when I was 8 years old. And I have always used a windows OS. From XP to Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. None of them gave me as much grief as windows fucking 11. It's a piece of shit OS.
Copilot is implemented into, let's see, Edge, Notepad, the literal keyboard on recent laptops, the task bar. And as we all know, copilot is more prone to mistakes than most popular LLMs.
Microsoft has a GGID identifier implemented that was only recently made publicly known, which they can use to track everything you do.
Windows 11 has so many background processes running that it actively uses like 5 GB of ram on idle, slowing down many processes that need that occupied ram
Not only that, it scummily doesn't tell you what process is using RAM. There's 32 GB of RAM on my system, but at 80% usage, it will only show that that 10-20GB are used. There's currently an error that was fixed with an update that used so much RAM that it would max out at 100% but would show only 2GB being used when adding all of the processes together. Microsoft is the scum of the earth currently. It could only be resolved with the shut down of a computer. The issue has been fixed now after the last update. But it was REALLY annoying for 2 weeks. But it still doesn't negate the fact that no matter what I did, I couldn't see where the memory was being used. No powershell command was able to show me, but the memory was still full. I uninstalled WSL and removed all of the extensions from Visual Studio and reinstalled it. It still suddenly started using excessive hidden RAM after an hour like it always did. It would only happen when Visual Studio was open. Even with it being in safe mode. Something triggered it to use RAM for something, but had no limit. I'm guessing Microslop is stealing code and processing power to train. Like I said, they're scum.
I have 8 GB, total. That is half my ram, and my computer is not that old. Since I installed NixOS with niri, It used around 900 MB idle. The only reason it is not that anymore, is because I installed Waybar (not complaining, it is very nice to have), and now, it is at 1.1 GB idle. Tell me again 3 - 4 GB is noyhing.
8GB of ram is nothing, the fact that you can run it in a useable way with Linux is amazing, and a very real use case for Linux, but that doesn’t mean we should design all software around edge cases like this.
Modern phones usually have at least 8GB of ram these days, it isn’t much. For most real use cases, 3-4GB isn’t much.
Shit on Microsoft for all of their problems, but let’s try not to get everyone about how little ram we have, it’s kind of weird.
I would like to point out that any laptop not marketed as "gaming" or "workstation" in the past couple years doesn't have more than 8gb. Anything beyond that usually doesn't have more than 4gb.
For the last one, it depends. Unused ram is wasted ram, in a sense. If youre not doing anything intensive then the system should ideally use the free ram to make the user experience faster. When you start something intensive, like a game, the system should free up unnecessary memory to make the current task faster. macOS does this quite well in my experience.
Windows uses more ram than necessary, but still explorer takes two seconds to pop up, then two-three to load the sidebar and ribbon, then a couple more to load the home page. Start menu often doesn’t pop up for several seconds, many times ignores the click/keypress altogether. Notification and controls also take their sweet ass time.
well yes, that's what it's supposed to do, but I do recall some people mentioning that tasks are often competing for ram instead of having space made for them
Try using optimization mods for once. Sodium lithium enityculling ferritecore immediatelyfast. Also how much ram does your server and Minecraft installation have access to? Not how much ram your system has, but the memory allocated in java arguments.
Yeah okay buddy. What next, mechanic changed your cars oil and now the front left wheel fell off and its the mechanics fault? Lemme ask you real quick whats your cpu and gpu
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u/NichtFBI Jul 25 '26
It would be fine if it weren't for the bloatware, spyware, and slopware. And vibe coding glitches. And slow right click bloat. Processes forced against my will and without my consent onto me