Microsoft 11 Gotchas
To make it short and sweet, the main reasons to use Windows 11 are:
- It came with your new computer.
- You enjoy dealing with bugs.
- You are certain you will never use older applications again
- You do not want to buy your own antivirus software after 2025
Reasons NOT to upgrade to Windows 11 are:
- Windows 10 is a well tested platform
- Windows 10 still contains support for older 32 bit apps
- Windows 10 will upgrade from Windows 7 unofficially
- Windows 10 will upgrade from Windows 8 unofficially
- Windows 10 will run on older (still in retail) hardware that 11 cannot
- The Windows 10 Defender antivirus is free and works fairly well
- Windows 11 will not run on hardware as recent as 2018
- Windows 11 has difficulty running legacy game applications
- Windows 12 is expected to be out late 2024 (unofficially)
Nevertheless, Windows 11 will soon replace Windows 10 because:
- Microsoft will stop security updates to Windows 10 effective October 2025
- New computers will automatically come with Windows 11
- Microsoft may force eligible Windows 10 users to upgrade to 11
- Microsoft may strongly encourage older machines be replaced
- It may be in your best interest to buy a new computer, see break-throughs in technology
I swapped to win11 a few years back. It broke 2 of my games and the others saw lower fps. So I went back to 10.
I’m sure some of those issues are fixed now. But why bother? Win 10 works.
I can also put the task bar on the side where I like it and the audio switching is easier on 10. Although I think they might have improved both those. 😂 But who knows what else is broken on 11.
2024-10-07 06:19:06
HTGMember
Sound is sometimes broken lol.
W11 still hasn’t impoved task bar.
Audio switching – it’s usable, at best.
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-pc-gamers-find-it-so-hard-to-let-go-of-windows-10/
