Has Anyone Fucked with Windows 11 Yet?

You're dl'ing Insider Preview build? W11 doesn't drop until later this year I thought.

Correct.

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So far, so good!

The bottom toolbar is centered like on a Mac but all my important apps are running properly.
 
11 is a lousy lay... just grunts, showers and leaves. Microsoft should do a whole lot better for what they cost!
 
Installed 11 on the new desktop and all is well. It even cleared the MS Office activation nag I had. Lappy running Win11 Home and desktop on Win11 Pro. Both are working fine but I'll be downloading some of the context and start menu tweaks.
 
Well, I'm certainly not in a hurry to. If my experience with successive Microsoft operating systems is anything to go by:

Windows XP was the best. Microsoft at their peak. They should have just left it alone right here. Windows 7 was pretty good, but not quite as good as XP; and 7 is the operating system I am desperately clinging to now. My experience with Windows 10 is that it's like Windows 7 but not NEARLY as good, and with not nearly the ease of use or functionality. (Which is why I still use version 7.)

So with that said, I'm expecting Windows 11 to be a further downgrade from 10, and by the time they get to release 14 or 15, I'm half expecting it will be back to basic MS Dos keyboard commands and almost nothing will work at all anymore, ha ha!
 
apparently i need to clear some hard drive space. i'm reluctant to do that at the moment. it's windows. i'd rather wait until it's out a bit longer before risking it.
 
You get a couple days off while the techs try to figure out what the fuck went wrong.....

or they "migrate" your files to "the cloud" and your drafting software freaks the fuck right out.

a couple of day off works for me.
 
or they "migrate" your files to "the cloud" and your drafting software freaks the fuck right out.

a couple of day off works for me.

Drafting

That's what EITs are for.....

Still, they all need to take 8 grade mechanical drawing......
 
Installed 11 on the new desktop and all is well. It even cleared the MS Office activation nag I had. Lappy running Win11 Home and desktop on Win11 Pro. Both are working fine but I'll be downloading some of the context and start menu tweaks.

I upgraded both lappies and have no complaints despite both machines being Ryzen-based. I don't use either for gaming nor for intense multi-thread tasks.

But I'm reluctant to install it on my desktop - my main work computer that is also Ryzen-based - in fear of typical Windows-at-launch issues.

Speaking of tweaks, I've heard a lot of good things about 2 that revert the appearance and useability of W11 back to W10 and W7-era layouts: StartAllBack and Start11 - $5 each.
 
I have a PC and a laptop running Windows 10 but neither will talk to my printers.

I have a PC and netbook running windows 7, a PC running XP, and a PC running MS-Dos and Win 3.1. I have given my XT and A PC running CP/M to my local museum.
 
I upgraded both lappies and have no complaints despite both machines being Ryzen-based. I don't use either for gaming nor for intense multi-thread tasks.

But I'm reluctant to install it on my desktop - my main work computer that is also Ryzen-based - in fear of typical Windows-at-launch issues.

Speaking of tweaks, I've heard a lot of good things about 2 that revert the appearance and useability of W11 back to W10 and W7-era layouts: StartAllBack and Start11 - $5 each.

I've been running 11 on this rig for about a month now and no problems whatsoever. Right click context menu takes a bit of getting used to and I still go to the bottom left corner to shut down, but that's just habit.
 
Installed 11 on the new desktop and all is well. It even cleared the MS Office activation nag I had. Lappy running Win11 Home and desktop on Win11 Pro. Both are working fine but I'll be downloading some of the context and start menu tweaks.

Funny you should say that, I had a bug in Outlook where it would just hang while syncing send/receive. You had to go into task manager to shut it down. Problem has gone away since I installed 11.
 
I upgraded both lappies and have no complaints despite both machines being Ryzen-based. I don't use either for gaming nor for intense multi-thread tasks.

But I'm reluctant to install it on my desktop - my main work computer that is also Ryzen-based - in fear of typical Windows-at-launch issues.

Speaking of tweaks, I've heard a lot of good things about 2 that revert the appearance and useability of W11 back to W10 and W7-era layouts: StartAllBack and Start11 - $5 each.

I hear StartAllBack is the way to go.

I've been running 11 on this rig for about a month now and no problems whatsoever. Right click context menu takes a bit of getting used to and I still go to the bottom left corner to shut down, but that's just habit.

That sucks, for sure. I think StartAllBack fixes that too.

Funny you should say that, I had a bug in Outlook where it would just hang while syncing send/receive. You had to go into task manager to shut it down. Problem has gone away since I installed 11.

That was a surprising "fix" for me.
 
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