Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh'
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Andrew Evenstar
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nemiroff
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Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
Agreed if its needed for productivity and everyhting else windows provides.The only thing worse than Windows, is using ChromeOS.
I barely used the surface and wanted to make it a simple tablet with youtube/netflix/browser. Infact I tried streaming gamepass games and it actually worked really well.
Parazels
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Good approach.
I do not understand, why so many people here declare they need everything on a single pc. I have a cheap laptop for work and a console for games. I wouldn't like to combine them within a one device.
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Laptop1991
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Best thing to do with Microsoft, never believe a word they say and put out!.
Doctor Hades
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I think Windows 11 is a fine operating system personally, being fast and completely stable on my system. However, it suffers from a lack of quality control by Microsoft, which Windows 11 24H2 being particularly buggy as a result.
Last August was the first time that I experienced issues trying to play PC games on my machine, specifically Star Wars: Outlaws from Ubisoft which kept crashing to the desktop with no error message or event log entry every 10-20 minutes. In the end I had to stop playing it and it wasn't until late December that the issue was finally fixed by both Ubisoft and Microsoft.
The issues with the 24H2 update have certainly put me off upgrading to a new build of Windows early via the Windows Insider Release Preview programme (which is basically where you get to test cumulative Windows updates a week or two before everyone else).
Last August was the first time that I experienced issues trying to play PC games on my machine, specifically Star Wars: Outlaws from Ubisoft which kept crashing to the desktop with no error message or event log entry every 10-20 minutes. In the end I had to stop playing it and it wasn't until late December that the issue was finally fixed by both Ubisoft and Microsoft.
The issues with the 24H2 update have certainly put me off upgrading to a new build of Windows early via the Windows Insider Release Preview programme (which is basically where you get to test cumulative Windows updates a week or two before everyone else).
AnOldBrownie_67
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I dual boot with Windows 11 and Linux Mint. 75% of my time is spent on Windows 11 due to my desktop being a gaming environment. My Windows 11 experience has been rock solid and even though I can indeed run Star Citizen and modded Skyrim (to an extent) on Mint, I cannot, under any circumstance run Madden 25.
So, while I use Linux Mint to rip my CDs, web browse and log in to do the little stuff because I like how it handles it, Linux Mint is not a "forget Windows 11" solution for me.
Font rendering is also crap on Linux, and while it's not as good as it is on Mac OS...fonts on Windows 11 are better than they are on Linux Mint.
I do recommend anyone that can dual boot with Windows 11 and Linux Mint...do so. If you're at least competent with computer tech, you may enjoy the freedom and ease Linux Mint provides.
But... the experience is not without it's warts.
Windows 11's warts..for me, is the UI. Other than that...it's rock solid and easy to use.
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Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
Microsoft is like the antithesis of a detail-oriented company. Every time I use it I feel like I'm stumbling upon nails that stick out and rip my shirt or unsmoothed wood that gives me splinters.
My latest discovery, when I wanted to change the icon in my taskbar for Microsoft's own app StickyNotes from the ugly yellow to a more minimalistic white one, was that the asset folder of the app has plenty of icons in different colors, but there's no way to actually change them in the app or settings. I tried to edit the assets in the folder, but W11 won't let me despite me changing all available admin privileges to my admin user in the hidden WindowsApps folder.
Icons readily avabilable in
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_6.1.4.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\Icons
but no way to access them in the year of 2025
Each day I realize that this OS actually doesn't want me enjoying it and each day I am pushed more and more back to MacOS.
I declare 2025 'The Year of the Windows 11 PC Fatigue'.
My latest discovery, when I wanted to change the icon in my taskbar for Microsoft's own app StickyNotes from the ugly yellow to a more minimalistic white one, was that the asset folder of the app has plenty of icons in different colors, but there's no way to actually change them in the app or settings. I tried to edit the assets in the folder, but W11 won't let me despite me changing all available admin privileges to my admin user in the hidden WindowsApps folder.
Icons readily avabilable in
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_6.1.4.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\Icons
but no way to access them in the year of 2025
Each day I realize that this OS actually doesn't want me enjoying it and each day I am pushed more and more back to MacOS.
I declare 2025 'The Year of the Windows 11 PC Fatigue'.
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LavitzSlambert
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Microsoft is like the antithesis of a detail-oriented company. Every time I use it I feel like I'm stumbling upon nails that stick out and rip my shirt or unsmoothed wood that gives me splinters.
My latest discovery, when I wanted to change the icon in my taskbar for Microsoft's own app StickyNotes from the ugly yellow to a more minimalistic white one, was that the asset folder of the app has plenty of icons in different colors, but there's no way to actually change them in the app or settings. I tried to edit the assets in the folder, but W11 won't let me despite me changing all available admin privileges to my admin user in the hidden WindowsApps folder.
Icons readily avabilable in
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes_6.1.4.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Assets\Icons
but no way to access them in the year of 2025
Each day I realize that this OS actually doesn't want me enjoying it and each day I am pushed more and more back to MacOS.
I declare 2025 'The Year of the Windows 11 PC Fatigue'.
It's because nobody from Microsoft seems to actually use the product they spend all their lives working on.
poodaddy
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Magic Carpet
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Steam OS launches in 2025.
Windows will always have the Airport ticket kiosks.
Windows will always have the Airport ticket kiosks.
Puscifer
Member
People laugh react but the reality was Microsoft launched it when PC manufacturers weren't ready
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
What dont you get?
The bloated app installs? The constant app installs? The constant shoving of AI in your face. The constant updates that brick things?
But sure...
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Hopefully also the year SteamOS gets a desktop release.
Tomeru
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Compared to win3.1 yeah. Much better.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.001
Microsoft is putting windows at front and center.