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Windows 11 is failing as an operating system (tilvids.com)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar

02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now

05:20 What's the job of an OS?

06:51 Updates break systems. Often.

10:53 You have to adapt to it

15:14 It's highly intrusive

17:44 Debloating tools don't make it good

20:19 Windows fails at being an OS

21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect

27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS

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[–] 26 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

WINDOWS 11 IS GREAT IF YOU DONT VALUE YOUR TIME

Even with that caveat I wouldn't agree.

But there's something to it.

For me, a decade of Linux user, having been forced to work with a bunch of Windows laptops recently, even the difference between 10 and 11 was palpable. Not only in resource usage but also in just getting around the system, running updates, trying to disable the stock ticker (?WTF?) etc.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Lately I often reminesce on the time SSD has become available. My previous laptop would take 5 minutes to fully open the system, and suddenly BAM! SSD and it was 30 seconds. I remember being blown away. How the fuck did we end up back here. How is it 5+ minutes to start a stupid OS again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I remember that too! My crappy old computer. I bought the cheapest SSD they had and it was so much faster.

    And I've been thinking about the latter too.

    BTW I truly hope your Windows takes 5min for a cold boot, and not your Linux, because that would mean there's something wrong with it or the hardware.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    My work laptop is only allowed windows 11 [*] At least I wait for it on company time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I boot my work PC when I get in, then go off to make a coffee. It boots to log in reasonably well, but then takes a good five minutes to run the start up script that connects it to the company's shared drives.

    When I could use Linux at work the machine mounted the drives at boot so they were available immediately. I've gone backwards despite being 'upgraded'.

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