My SO recently bought a laptop designed for (and subsequently sold with) windows 11 and I can't believe how utterly broken that system feels. It really feels like you're running an alpha. The system interface completely lacks coherence.

(For context I've been running linux for several decades)

Sadly, the number of times I’ve had to reboot windows two or three times to fix an issue lately has been increasing.

This sounds like your organization's group policy is too large or your connection from your machine to a domain controller hosting your GPOs is too slow. There's a timeout period. If all the GPO contents are not pulled down to the local machine, it stops downloading them, and lets the user continue to the Desktop. However, for lots of orgs GPOs are how they deliver settings or software, so you have to reboot again and on the next login, it will pick up downloading where it left off. It could still timeout again if there is more GPO data (or the connection is too slow). So you may have to reboot multiple times, and on one of those it will finally complete the downloads, and then suddenly everything works because all the right data or settings from the GPOs are on the local machine.

most issues we get are with windows 10 now that microsoft doenst care about the os anymore. bro we cant even print through windows 10 anymore 😭

Microsoft fired every developer who knew what they were doing and is defecating windows updates produced by Copilot without anyone even testing if they work.

At this point it's a miracle an updated Windows 11 even boots.

That doesn't seem like a problem with Windows 11, but with misconfiguration on the server or on your end.

Never had to restart multiple times unless some config asked for it. And every computer at my job is running Windows 11.

I was just about to comment basically this. It doesn't help that MS changed the default behavior so that a lot of people that think they were shutting down their computers were actually just putting them to sleep.

One time my Mom had that same thing happen. She genuinely thought she'd been shutting down the computer but that damn "Low Power mode" for "Faster wake up" had been keeping it from fully shutting down so it hadn't actually been turned off in months. She was so fucking mad when I showed her what it had been doing.

Found the iMac user.