Windows 11 The 60 Day Review - Chris Titus Tech
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I am very missing about chromium video decoding, especially of Edge's one, where it works so much better that any other browser. And about normal drivers. And relatively easy, deep tuning of many things. And fractional scaling. And EPO Equalizer, Win's sound so much better than PulseAudio. No really problems, great stability, 10 and 11 in future - best, that Microsoft ever made (ok, VScode awesome too).
But my displays works now just perfect, battery life seems better, Gnome UI's driving is unbelievable good (customisation too). And I am not guest anymore, proccesses doesn't appear to load my system out of nowhere (and I don't know what for, what they actually do), which happens in Win all time.
So it really difficult choice. God save dual boot!
Date: 2022-03-21
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Silverjerk
I agree with everything in the video. I've been a lover of both Windows and Mac for decades. I'm an odd duck; both a PC hardware enthusiast that's been building PCs since the late 90s (when I had to order parts from a catalog), and a hardcore Apple fan since the original Macintosh. The reason I love and have stuck with both is because I've been a gamer all my life, and also an artist, designer, and developer. I used to use my Windows PCs for fun, and my Macs for work.
A few years ago, the justification was simple. Macs were easier to set up my dev environments on, with little concessions; and all of my design and illustration apps were supported, ran well, and just worked (sorry!). I would often hear grumbling from fellow devs who were diehard Windows users, but even they agreed that getting a seamless local dev environment set up on Windows was sort of a pain in the ass, and many of them had dual-boot machines running some distro of Linux. All of that changed with WSL, and I'm glad to see how deeply integrated it's becoming with Windows 11.
Where this gets complicated for me, now, is choosing what goes into my bag. I used to carry around both my Razer Blade, and my 16- MacBook Pro wherever I went. And I justified the cost of that 16- MacBook Pro (which was well over $4k) because of the build quality and the fact that it allowed me to do my work effortlessly -- the work that allowed me to earn the income that afforded me the privilege of buying two high-end portable machines. But where I used to be able to stand my ground and claim that the $4k+ expenditure was worth it, because -beautiful machine- and -capable work computer,- I'm now staring at the less expensive and almost as well-built Blade -- which not only runs all my dev tasks beautifully but also performs much better in certain areas -- thinking I may actually be reaching a place in time where I can bring one machine, and not make any compromises.
I'll never give up my Mac, since I need Xcode and some other apps I use daily, but the decision to buy or build a PC is no longer hampered by the idea that I can't use it for work if needed, or that it might be much more painful to do so. But if I'm getting on the road, popping a capable Windows PC and my iPad in my bag basically serves every need I have. Less backpain too, which is a bonus since after 40 everything seems to be getting heavier and heavier.
Great videos. Keep it up, Chris.
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I agree with everything in the video. I've been a lover of both Windows and Mac for decades. I'm an odd duck; both a PC hardware enthusiast that's been building PCs since the late 90s (when I had to order parts from a catalog), and a hardcore Apple fan since the original Macintosh. The reason I love and have stuck with both is because I've been a gamer all my life, and also an artist, designer, and developer. I used to use my Windows PCs for fun, and my Macs for work.
A few years ago, the justification was simple. Macs were easier to set up my dev environments on, with little concessions; and all of my design and illustration apps were supported, ran well, and just worked (sorry!). I would often hear grumbling from fellow devs who were diehard Windows users, but even they agreed that getting a seamless local dev environment set up on Windows was sort of a pain in the ass, and many of them had dual-boot machines running some distro of Linux. All of that changed with WSL, and I'm glad to see how deeply integrated it's becoming with Windows 11.
Where this gets complicated for me, now, is choosing what goes into my bag. I used to carry around both my Razer Blade, and my 16- MacBook Pro wherever I went. And I justified the cost of that 16- MacBook Pro (which was well over $4k) because of the build quality and the fact that it allowed me to do my work effortlessly -- the work that allowed me to earn the income that afforded me the privilege of buying two high-end portable machines. But where I used to be able to stand my ground and claim that the $4k+ expenditure was worth it, because -beautiful machine- and -capable work computer,- I'm now staring at the less expensive and almost as well-built Blade -- which not only runs all my dev tasks beautifully but also performs much better in certain areas -- thinking I may actually be reaching a place in time where I can bring one machine, and not make any compromises.
I'll never give up my Mac, since I need Xcode and some other apps I use daily, but the decision to buy or build a PC is no longer hampered by the idea that I can't use it for work if needed, or that it might be much more painful to do so. But if I'm getting on the road, popping a capable Windows PC and my iPad in my bag basically serves every need I have. Less backpain too, which is a bonus since after 40 everything seems to be getting heavier and heavier.
Great videos. Keep it up, Chris.
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jothain
I'm looking forward to upgrade my -main- pc to Windows 11. I use Windows, Linux and new a very new user of MacOS. There's place for them all and they all have their ups and downs. Like with my new Mini I was really pleasantly surprised about my localization and how good the help files actually seemed to be. Quite nice detail, but not too much technical jargon. But then I was really unpleasantly surprised how absolutely horrible window management it has. Anyway, I digress. I've generally speaking liked always Windows. It has so, so much more under its hood by default than 80% of Linux users think. On one forum I constantly have to correct posts that ie. -Actually W10 has MD5SUM tool installed by default-, -You can actually view thing X from event manager- and so forth. Chris btw. did you upgrade from W10 or was there already W11 install media (tbh I haven't checked out yet)?
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I'm looking forward to upgrade my -main- pc to Windows 11. I use Windows, Linux and new a very new user of MacOS. There's place for them all and they all have their ups and downs. Like with my new Mini I was really pleasantly surprised about my localization and how good the help files actually seemed to be. Quite nice detail, but not too much technical jargon. But then I was really unpleasantly surprised how absolutely horrible window management it has. Anyway, I digress. I've generally speaking liked always Windows. It has so, so much more under its hood by default than 80% of Linux users think. On one forum I constantly have to correct posts that ie. -Actually W10 has MD5SUM tool installed by default-, -You can actually view thing X from event manager- and so forth. Chris btw. did you upgrade from W10 or was there already W11 install media (tbh I haven't checked out yet)?
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Knut
Reasons why I will never use Windows 11
#1 Telemetry/Yankee backdoors
#2 Requires hardware with a CPU backdoor anyway (Intel Me/AMD PSP)
#3 Insecure : M$ won't fix privilege escalation flaws when it breaks compatibility and/or user convenience, difficult to run an unpriviledged account (without UAC) because a lot of software won't work.
#4 Forced and bulk updates.
#5 Too many .NET scripts instead of state of the art fast native programs
#6 Windows as a Service: you don't really own a copy of Windows. Once M$ shuts down the activation servers for some version of Windows you can't reinstall unless you find a way to crack it.
#7 Least amount of effort/strategic incompatibility attitude of M$. It took until Windows 10 for Notepad to support UNIX line endings.
#8 Registry, uninstalling programs always leaves a ton of crap behind.
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Reasons why I will never use Windows 11
#1 Telemetry/Yankee backdoors
#2 Requires hardware with a CPU backdoor anyway (Intel Me/AMD PSP)
#3 Insecure : M$ won't fix privilege escalation flaws when it breaks compatibility and/or user convenience, difficult to run an unpriviledged account (without UAC) because a lot of software won't work.
#4 Forced and bulk updates.
#5 Too many .NET scripts instead of state of the art fast native programs
#6 Windows as a Service: you don't really own a copy of Windows. Once M$ shuts down the activation servers for some version of Windows you can't reinstall unless you find a way to crack it.
#7 Least amount of effort/strategic incompatibility attitude of M$. It took until Windows 10 for Notepad to support UNIX line endings.
#8 Registry, uninstalling programs always leaves a ton of crap behind.
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The
the most bone headed things is the size of the taskbar. too big as ive been using a smaller one for 3 years for more screen space.
unbelievable that they removed the option for that , and if you do resize it through regedit then its all broken on the time and date. nice one. great move.
other being the horrible ribbon in explorer that I've had minimized for 3 years giving more space. nope that's now permanently there , giving the exact same options as right click. ridiculous again. devs should be ashamed to get the absolute most basic things wrong. regardless of how much i like the overall win 11. morons.
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the most bone headed things is the size of the taskbar. too big as ive been using a smaller one for 3 years for more screen space.
unbelievable that they removed the option for that , and if you do resize it through regedit then its all broken on the time and date. nice one. great move.
other being the horrible ribbon in explorer that I've had minimized for 3 years giving more space. nope that's now permanently there , giving the exact same options as right click. ridiculous again. devs should be ashamed to get the absolute most basic things wrong. regardless of how much i like the overall win 11. morons.
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Rayzor28
I just installed the beta release and can confirm that you no longer need the dev release to use wsl2 for running Linux gui apps. So far the system seems familiar enough to windows 10 and I've had zero issues using it or navigating it. Also, I do find it perplexing that once you are able to run your favorite handful of Linux applications and tools within windows, it almost eliminates the necessity for Linux desktop altogether. From the perspective of a gamer that's fantastic because nothing beats windows for gaming purposes but I can still use Linux apps. Bye Bye to the dark days of dual booting.
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I just installed the beta release and can confirm that you no longer need the dev release to use wsl2 for running Linux gui apps. So far the system seems familiar enough to windows 10 and I've had zero issues using it or navigating it. Also, I do find it perplexing that once you are able to run your favorite handful of Linux applications and tools within windows, it almost eliminates the necessity for Linux desktop altogether. From the perspective of a gamer that's fantastic because nothing beats windows for gaming purposes but I can still use Linux apps. Bye Bye to the dark days of dual booting.
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coffee
i was on it since leak, and i liked it better in every way than windows 10, i hated windows 10.
the reason i went back just recently was because the small taskbar clock is cutoff when you change it via the reg and im NOT using big icons, you can forget about that
also the start menu is like a cinnamon menu idk why people say mac, it looks more like a linux install than a mac to me.
also i never liked 7+ taskbar, its a buggy mess. I want them to make it useless.
ill be going back when android apps work
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i was on it since leak, and i liked it better in every way than windows 10, i hated windows 10.
the reason i went back just recently was because the small taskbar clock is cutoff when you change it via the reg and im NOT using big icons, you can forget about that
also the start menu is like a cinnamon menu idk why people say mac, it looks more like a linux install than a mac to me.
also i never liked 7+ taskbar, its a buggy mess. I want them to make it useless.
ill be going back when android apps work
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Killertruth186
One of my issue with the Windows 11, is the lack of wireless devices battery info and or indicator. So far it only works for headphones and ear buds. And sometimes there's performance lack of consistency when gaming.
At least Ubuntu had allowed the wireless mouse to see how much battery is left.
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One of my issue with the Windows 11, is the lack of wireless devices battery info and or indicator. So far it only works for headphones and ear buds. And sometimes there's performance lack of consistency when gaming.
At least Ubuntu had allowed the wireless mouse to see how much battery is left.
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Adam
Did you face an issue where the date turn to 08-07-3209 often, a workaround for it would be to disable the Virtual Machines Platform feature but that will disable WSL :( been trying along a couple people who have the same issue to send feedbacks to Microsoft for a better fix or an update.
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Did you face an issue where the date turn to 08-07-3209 often, a workaround for it would be to disable the Virtual Machines Platform feature but that will disable WSL :( been trying along a couple people who have the same issue to send feedbacks to Microsoft for a better fix or an update.
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shperax
I don't understand half the things you're doing as far as a practical standpoint. You're definitely not taking the shortest possible route to do stuff for the sake of being niche, maybe? Probably coming from a Linux finicky baby background.
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I don't understand half the things you're doing as far as a practical standpoint. You're definitely not taking the shortest possible route to do stuff for the sake of being niche, maybe? Probably coming from a Linux finicky baby background.
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