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lightsenshi54
Brass Contributor
May 05, 2023

Feedback on Windows 11

I've been a Windows customer since the beginning.   I was doing computing back on the TSR-80, when we still saved information on audio tape.   However, with the changes in the last few versions of Wi...
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Seagreen1810
Copper Contributor
Jun 14, 2024
I started building my computers before Windows. I used DOS commands and a black and green screen. So I feel (as many of you here) that this is another Vista or Millennium. I had my last system hard drive crashed and I just wanted to buy a laptop. No set up ... "Plug n Play". I wasn't given a choice on what edition it came with. I got 11.
NOT user (very experienced user) friendly. I fear I'm in for a long drive down the "update highway". I didn't know anyone who had updated nor used 11, so I had no idea, except rumors, that made me skeptical.
When I say user friendly, just getting to this site to write this feed back caused a "blue screen of death" which I haven't seen in years. So the fact that I went through all the hoops to get here should tll you how disappointed I am.
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    Jared_Bernard
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 16, 2024

    Last night I got another forced update that shut down everything I was working on. And the reason again seems trivial -- now "fun facts" appear on the locked screen, which I've disabled again. So this is the second time in a month!

     

    Same here,Seagreen1810; I started on the MS-DOS black-and-green screen on an old IBM Vendex in the 80s, and I also miss the plug-n-play ability to add more memory or graphic cards myself. And if those computers crashed, sometimes they could be hotwired.

     

    Aside from the subscription-based software, the thing that really irks me is that so many of the so-called advances aren't really technological but are merely aesthetic. Sure, the processing chip gets faster, we get solid state hard drives, and more GB of RAM, but applications and things like photos also require more storage space than ever before, so the computer capacity and the need for it increase in tandem. And those are the real changes! All the other changes are, when you really get down to it, just the plastic casing and the look of the icons, so not really technological advances. To me, the main differences between computers today versus those 20 years ago is that now we can't own our software (as it's all subscription-based), own or write CDs or DVDs (as it's all subscription-based), or customize by adding memory or graphics cards, etc. And it doesn't escape my attention that all computers, whether Apple or Windows, are ultimately manufactured by Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese company... Not saying that's a problem, only interesting that Windows has taken on Apple's fad-based business model and they're both made in the same place.

     

    I would switch entirely to a Linux OS, as lightsenshi54 said, if so many of the tools I need weren't only available on Windows.

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