Windows 11’s problems stem from the fact Microsoft has converted Windows from a desktop OS into a marketing and services delivery platform. The telemetry, the incessant reminders to use OneDrive or Office, the entire OS is designed to upsell you and part you from your money as opposed to enable you to get things done.
Honestly, this video has kinda opened my eyes to the fact that most of the issues I have with my PC are just Windows 11's fault and not something I've done wrong with my hardware configuration...
Same here. I reset my PC around 3 times this year due to issues with Windows 11, that I wasn't getting with Windows 10. Glad to see that this video confirmed it.
I tried troubleshooting an issue with a brand new PC and got frustrated when someone just told me to downgrade to 10. SURELY it was an issue with the games or how I set up the hardware. Nope, turns out it literally was just 11 being horse shit.
@@cacomeat7385 What sucks is they're gonna force us upgrade eventually, or else lose access to important security updates. I haven't decided yet if, when that day comes, I'll update or just go offline altogether. Most of my games are DRM free + singleplayer, so I do have the option to just pull the ethernet cord out lol. But yeah hopefully, by the time the update becomes mandatory, they've got their shit together. tbf though when it came to the mandatory 7 > 10 update, windows 10 was actually in pretty good shape by then imo. So _hopefully_ the same goes with windows 11.
There is no QA department for Windows. There has not been a dedicated QA department since 2015. This shift led to a reduction in traditional Quality Assurance (QA) roles, with developers assuming greater responsibility for testing their code, often utilizing virtual machines (VMs) and automated testing tools. The transition was part of a broader move towards DevOps practices, emphasizing continuous integration and delivery. However, this change raised concerns about the potential increase in software bugs due to the diminished emphasis on dedicated QA teams.
I says mostly the same. They literally do not employ QA and simply throw a feature over the wall for some teams to look at which are not connected to the dev process. Which is awful for quality.
there is this guy with a youtube channel, called bernacules nerdgasm that used to work at microsoft QA so years ago he made a video and he said this stuff will happend because they basically layed off the entire QA team including himself and replace it with virtual machine testing which will lead into problems to the end user for not actually testing with real hardware. Microsoft doesn't give a crap anymore.
The FREE UPGRADE to Windows 10 was to recruit lots of labrats! Which is why when Windows Home users uninstall the bloat apps, they are reinstalled with the next update! M$ needs these unpain beta testers!
Microsoft fired most of their QA department back when the Windows Insider Program became a thing with the release of Windows 10. It was in all the big news outlets back in the day, I don't know how so many of big tech tubers have missed out on that.
Yeah ever since 10 windows has been a joke. 8 only gets a bad rep because of the start menu which was truly its only issue. Other than that 8.1 was a great OS.
As soon as the Windows Insider Program became their primary source for testing main releases, any serious issues that would crop up would end up in the Feedback Hub not being looked at or being super low priority. I doubt they took the Feedback Hub as seriously as some other internal tooling with serious feedback. It is enough to look at GitHub and issues on as popular projects as Windows to see how noisy feedback from the entire public can get. There's a reason internal testing worked better.
The thing about this is that there is a plethora of individual hardware out in the wild to test with, not to mention, mix and matching. Why waste billions on physical hardware when you can simply use virtual machines to test individual hardware specs?
Just before that they had the Technical Beta Team. We would do the testing, bugs would be reported to QA, they would see if they could recreate the bug and if so determine who to pass the bug to. I left the team and it was not much longer after that where there were management shifts. Brad Silverburg left and that was the first step in the OS going downhill. I left after a bug I reported for 3-4 test releases was reported in the papers when the OS was released. They had the bug, they had the steps and they ignored fixing it...until the public started screaming about it.
If we are moaning about Windows 11 issues we have: - The longstanding bug of the mouse cursor sometimes disappearing when it goes over an application like Excel or explorer which I've had over multiple versions of Windows - Windows randomly wakeing from sleep (and then digging through cryptic event viewer logs to decipher why it resumed or crashed) - Numerous I/O interrupt issues, sometimes it just freezes for a few seconds when I try to copy a file - Explorer not refreshing when making file changes e.g. delete/move/rename. (may be something to do with quick access/ network drives?) - The background in explorer becoming black behind random folders / text - And a deliberate change rather than a bug - When you click on your user icon in the start menu rather than letting you quickly switch to other user profiles, they changed it so it now shows the status of Microsoft subscription services. Thanks Microsoft because that’s what I want to do regularly /s
I/O and Explorer not refreshing have been a problem since 10, which I'm actively using (v2004).. so chalk up another few years of an issue never being fixed.
Sleep is broken on everything I've ever used, iOS, Android, win, Linux, even game consoles, it just never just works. And yet for some reason I still use it. Have you disabled everything , usb, wake timers, and "power button"(WoL)? (You'll have to leave one usb on, like your keyboard) this has worked for me, the "power button"(WoL) one in particular was doing it idk why because that doesn't happen on Linux and there's no WoL on my network.
Windows Search getting even worse with each version since 8. You search for a file or program and it not even able to find it. Continues to search online opening up edge and bing.
Yes!!! It's so infuriating. I've actually done the search by copy/pasting the name from the file's actual details and it sometimes doesn't find it. What the Hell???
But how can they get subscription and ad revenue from a well behaving OS that doesn’t spy on its users or require subscriptions to use certain features? Won’t you please think of the trillion dollar company and billionaire CEO?
I want AI but not this dogshit what they offer. I want something like in Notion with intuitive integration and UI and features that make me enjoy using it
There is no money in that. Why would he do that. He only cares about how good MS looks for being "at the forefront" of AI, even if that means adding what amounts to spyware to you system. Windows Recall should tell you all you need to know about where MS' head is at these days in-terms of Windows.
Microsoft doesn't care about it's customers. Listening to the customers isn't as profitable as listening to the share holders. I really feel like it's time for people to start moving away from Microsoft since it's obvious they're going to remain extremely hostile towards their user base
let's not forget the one where sometimes ctrl + C just will fail to copy to clipboard. if you try copy and paste before it's "finished copying" (???) then it will just fail out and the copy will not proceed, so you still have the old thing on your clipboard instead. this never happened before 8 or 10 from my memory, maybe 7? it was always a, if you copy this, it WILL be in the clipboard deal. then somewhere it changed to "sometimes the copy operation will fail silently in the background and you have no clue that it failed" causing you to paste your last thing instead of the one you actually just copied.
or the fact that your start menu used to be infinitely arrangeable with those metro tiles but now it's just a single line of sequential apps that you can only rearrange left to right in rows, no more sliding something above something else without now shifting every other icon to the right one space and messing up every single line order of every other app to the right of it in the single row.
what about the one where they changed tray icons so they always get added to the taskbar as hidden so you have to manually go into the actual settings page to uncheck 'hidden' on every single new app that gets added one by one as they install themselves? and there's no setting except for another registry tweak someone found to disable this behaviour and restore them to just adding to the bar as un-hidden like normal behaviour
Failing to copy has been around since Vista, it’s just much more frequent on modern Windows because of all the background processes and the general decline in operating system quality. MacOS also now has this issue starting with Big Sur, iOS has this issue now since at least 12 and Android has had it since 2.x. The only consistent copy paste is in older OSes, *NIX and Haiku
Windows 11 is what finally drove me to Linux full time. Yes, there's software I can't run on it. Yes, I have to jump to Windows occasionally for it. But for the 95% of things I can run, my games, enough image editing stuffs to get by, all the stuff I do on the web, Mint does this utterly phenomenal thing: it just presents my applications and then just... doesn't bother me. Linux does its absolute best to facilitate getting me up and running, and then just leaves me alone, and I didn't realize just how much I was going to end up loving it for that. Even with the occasional program needing a bit of extra setup, it's worth spending the 30 minutes to an hour occasionally for the hours I don't spend dealing with Windows, because it's the difference between sometimes needing to do some extra work for an OS that wants to be good to you, and fighting an OS that actively does everything it can to get in your way.
“and then just leaves me alone, and I didn't realize just how much I was going to end up loving it for that.” That part sounds like a fantasy world to me 😄 My windows 11 Pro seems to go out of its way to be high maintenance and constantly waste my time with jank and restarts. It’s comical that MS still forces so many required restarts for patches and its core file explorer can’t even retain prior opened tabs on restart. Completely laughable but then equally depressing.
This is the way to go imo. One needn't have to do everything in Linux for it to be a viable opt-out for most/many tasks. People aren't changing because "I need XYZ app and doesn't work in Linux". But dual boot, and dump Win for the things you can do elsewhere.
Same here, Mint was also my choice. I was fed up when back in June they started making OneDrive an Opt Out feature. I just thought it's never going to stop, the control of my own computer just slipping away more and more. Steam Deck was a big part of giving me confidence at how good proton was.I have switched my daily usage and gaming over to Linux now since July 2024, so 5 months at the time of writing this, and I'm not going back. I still have my windows 10 install as a dual boot for a couple of necessities like Photoshop, but it's living on a 512gb SSD and that's all that Windows has on my machine now. The other ~7TB of storage has been converted over for use with Linux. In the last couple of weeks I've finished Titanfall 2 (through EA App on Lutris), Plague Tale Innocence and Halo 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the Masterchief Collection. It's just doing everything I want and I've been gobsmacked at how easy things have been.
@@AthanImmortal the Steam Deck was a confidence booster for me, as well. There are things I wish worked, like the Affinity 2 suite, but it's not a huge list of things. Games work almost immediately. I bought Mechwarrior 5 Clans almost the day it came out and had no issues. I have my criticisms of Linux, both in its present state and its community and direction. It still acts like an enthusiast DIY OS rather than a polished pick-up-and-play-with product too much, and too much of development across Linux is geared towards the "BTW I use Arch" crowd rather than trying to push it more into a mainstream direction with modern UX sensibilities that it might see it pick up real market share from normal people and gain the level of resources it needs to get a Windows or MacOS level of refinement... But when considering the alternatives, MacOS' absolute Rube Goldberg setup and "Consumers don't know what they want - we tell them what they want" attitude, or Windows just trying to become a giant sales platform to push live services and collect data... Linux developers are at least trying to give back control and act on behalf of the user, and while not perfect, it's a better mindset and the end product reflects that. Linux has its pains, but they're so much smaller and I'm glad it's my OS 85% of the time.
I hate when you're trying delete a file and Windows tells you it can't because it's being used by another program, but it doesn't tell you what that program is. Clearly it knows, but it just doesn't bother to tell you so you can't go shut it down. This has been a problem with Windows for several generations, at least, and you'd think they'd have fixed it by now.
And that's why Sysinternals Process Explorer has been a requirement for literally decades. Even though Process Explorer is free, there's also an open source tool called Process Hacker, if one is into FOSS.
Install PowerTools. But yes, you are indeed correct, but default it doesn’t. Microsoft is so busy shoving malware or just bad software down our throats and pushing it on us that they have neglected to build an operating system. Basic OS features don’t work or don’t get the attention they deserve. It’s hard to find files, hard to manage your applications, hard to run your applications quickly, hard to manage your disks, etc.
Oh Sh!t, is THAT was it is? I've been having that issue ever since getting my new PC around a year ago, which has Windows 11 Pro. It has a 14700K. I'd noted, so far, that it only produces this error on shutdown after playing a game. At first it seemed to be after using the Xbox app to play Gamepass, but then it started doing it on some Steam games. I'd started getting concerned that it was a sign my 14700K was failing. I DO use an Xbox wireless gamepad for some games, like third person, and of course I use a Mouse and Keyboard for games like FPS. Damn, that must be it. I'd tried noticing if it was games that hit my CPU or GPU hard. It must be that wireless controller being connected. I'll pay attention to that, next time I see the error. Thanks for your post.
@MightyZarquon yea try it with the controller off and not connected and see what happens. For me it seems like the controller is the issue. Or specifically, a problem with a MS game service that's running when you have a controller connected.
I gave up on windows and went to pop_os and the difference is night and day. Linux isn't constantly nagging me about updates or trying to get me to spend more money. It just works. 99% of my games work and any of them that don't I've just stopped playing. My rtx 3070 has no issues. I genuinely think Linux is the future for x86 gaming. Valve is always ahead of the curve and I trust them more than any other company. They wouldn't be investing all of this time and money outside of windows if they didn't think the same.
Pop OS! and Lutris/Steam just seem to work for me too. I'm still testing, but the installation on a 4-year-old laptop went swimmingly well and the OS just recognized the model of the laptop and everything works as intended. I'm trying the same with my desktop, but a PCIe sound card doesn't have the options I'm used to in Windows, so I'm hunting for a solution to that - but that's the only road-block. Love the modern Linux distros.
I'm a firm denier of The Year of The Linux Desktop™ as someone who has run it for close to two decades now, but dear God having had to use Windows for work, it's _sooo opaque._ Like, if you know *exactly* what registry edits you need to do and how to track down issues, you realize that 10-15% of the dev team were made of geniuses. But then you realize that the remaining 85-90% are either yes men, middle managers, and/or sociopaths. I frankly can't wait to get some additional storage and nuke my Win10 install from the bad times.
I switched to Pop! OS and used it with KDE for about 8 months back when Windows 11 was first announced. Like you, I was sacrificing something to switch to Linux: some of my gaming. Sure, I was also avoiding most of the negative things about Windows, but those things never _noticeably_ impacted my user experience. So it just felt like a sacrifice. As soon as I realized this, I switched back. I hope Linux will one day be able to give me the same gaming experience I can get on Windows. As soon as they do, I'll most likely leave Windows forever.
"Linux isn't constantly nagging me about updates or trying to get me to spend more money." Pop OS! isn't, not "Linux", and that's part of the Linux problem. Windows has a few supported versions, whereas Linux has countless distros making development unprofitable. One of Linux's greatest strengths is also its greatest weakness.
Sorting a large folder in Windows still takes a fucking eternity. Maybe they should work on that instead of another 10 AI gimmicks that nobody asked for and just are just a distraction.
Micro$hit's Windows objectives have gone from pleasing the users (if at all that was an objective) to pleasing shareholders by adding fancy sounding terms while actually doing nothing.
Yep. I've got folders with lots of large images that I work on. It doesn't seem to retain the thumbnail cache between boots, and it takes forever to put the images in the correct order the first time I access a folder after a reboot. That's if it does put them in order because sometime it just seems to go "nah, can't be bothered with this". Another problem: fairly frequently I'll click on a folder only to be told "this folder is empty". It's not. I go back out and back in and the files appear. File Explorer just seems to be a mess these days. I appreciate the tabbed interface that they added, but I swear that every update makes the thing perform worse.
The fact that a file browser of all things freezes at all in this day and age is just unforgivable. I'm dual booting Linux and it just doesn't happen there. The desktop environment I'm using takes about 300MB of my memory and THAT'S IT - and that's with a lot going on. But there's no crazy indexing processing running in the background I didn't ask for. No "misc system processes" that run at random intervals. We need more software and driver support on Linux, Windows is a sinking ship.
The file browser is kinda explainable (though, should have been fixed before ever going out). Windows has a “shell” just like Linux, you can get alternative shells like ClassicShell and such. Prior to Windows 11, Windows used the same shell environment but with a different “skin” over the top. The last time they had a big shift like that was in Windows Vista with Aero and Windows 8 with Metro. This is why you see so many old looking Windows dialogs and such, because the shell is practically the same just reskinned. Since just before the launch of Windows 10, they’ve been doing a rewrite of the entire shell environment and the applications on top of that to account for multitasking and multimonitor setups that weren’t as common the last time the shell got rewritten. For example, the new file explorer has tabs which just weren’t possible on the old shell window they used. Whilst that sounds trivial, it was possible with third party applications, but it was effectively opening a brand new file handle to manage it. The new shell uses one file handle and switches it back and forth when you’re moving through tabs, this reduces I/O usage. You can see this transition in development yourself, the right click context menu for example has the “show more options” section to open up the “old” shell menu. The problem mainly stems from their lack of testing and QA, they are risking a whole lot of customers by doing this “test in prod” setup. As a result, basic bugs like renaming a file and such can break your functionality. However, I just wanted to say that the issues are explainable in some way. They’re just not justifiable for a company as big as Microsoft.
It’s amazing that for how hard Microsoft pushes async in C#, the Windows team seems to have never heard of doing things asynchronously. Explorer’s UI thread should never be blocked, but they block it all the time. Anytime Explorer has to wait for something, you have to wait.
I also think there needs to be a consolidation of Linux OS's where there's one that "just works" for most default users. Moving to Linux for most is still not reasonable because of it still requiring silly shit. That's not me saying Linux doesn't have value, but unfortunately for the average joe/jane, it's still got some minor nuisances that make it hard for people to switch. I think Ubuntu is the default go-to per communities, but it's still got some issues with drivers, especially for gamers, last I heard. That said, I'm heavily considering switching over I just haven't gotten the energy to mull through the mountain of OS options, yet.
Windows 98: It (mostly) works Windows ME: It (mostly) doesn't work Windows XP: It's fixed Windows Vista: It's broken Windows 7: It's fixed Windows 8: It's broken Windows 10: It's fixed Windows 11: It's broken ...Repeat forever.
Between Windows 11 and the stutter problems with Unreal Engine 5, games are feeling worse from a technical perspective than a few years ago with previous iterations.
someone out there should create a mod of "windows 10: the last version of window edition" at this rate, all of those "security updates" won't make your pc more secure, it's more like a backdoor for windows to inject ads and farming data from users
I'm gonna be incredibly frank, this might be the final straw that gets people to abandon Microsoft, i swapped to Linux Mint and Nobara and honestly had a great experience so far, soon the last Windows PC will have left my household, and like half a decade ago, i thought this would never become a reality, but here we are If you don't use Adobe software, and don't play games with intrusive anticheat, you'll likely be completely fine tbh
"Problems with testing." Actually the problem is... They DON'T DO any testing, a lot of companies do not do ANY testing, it is viewed as an expense. "Test it on the consumer, they will be nice and wait for us to fix it" is the new attitude.
I want it too, but how much will NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel support it for drivers? How many studios will move away from DirectX, DXVK will only take us so far, and kernel level anti cheat is still an issue with Proton as well.
The cold and hard truth is that as long as anti-cheat solutions keep treating Linux as a second-class citizen, SteamOS won't mater at all, regardless of how good it turns out...
Let's hope I can do more than gaming on Linux based OS soon! Unfortunately wine and proton aren't very suited for production softwares, and that forces me to keep a Windows installation.
2:15 the idea that the Windows team even has QA testers is laughable. They literally just release things in rings, then wait for people to tell them what is broken. “Testing” as an employee discipline within Engineering at Microsoft was removed many years ago.
I know right?! I remember during a COVID lockdown, a windows update broke the built in VPN functionality which my company was relying on! I had to waste time showing people how to downgrade because the bug remained in for MONTHS!
It also goes to show these guys have NOT been paying attention to news regarding Windows for the past decade or so. Microsoft fired most of their QA staff prior to the launch of Windows 10, and expected the "Customer Experience" programs and giving more work to the developers to do testing as substitutes for that to save some money. The result? An extremely buggy launch for Windows 10, plagued with unwanted upgrade processes when users woke up the next day, to boot loops and failed upgrade installations, and even nonstop BSODs because god forbid you bought and used the wrong SSD.
Microsoft fired most of their QA department back when the Windows Insider Program became a thing with the release of Windows 10. It was in all the big news outlets back in the day, I don't know how so many of big tech tubers have missed out on that.
I remember upgrading to Windows 10 and my laptop would get bluescreens almost every day. It eventually got less frequent but it took about 3 years before it was as stable as Windows 8.1
I tried to get a randomly suspended Google Business listing reinstated a few months ago and, while trying to get support for it, I came to the conclusion that Google doesn't employ anyone any more, it's just one giant AI. I see no reason why Microsoft would be any different.
In the past I have measured the progress on the speeds of my new computers by clicking on the Windows explorer to see how fast it opens. With my Win7 PC, it was finally instant. After upgrading to a new PC with Win10 and now 11, the ecplorer opens way slower. That is a basic functionality. It is embarrassing.
@@Slytzel I meant File Explorer. Very first thing I did after the 24H2 upgrade was pop open File Explorer and start moving thru the filesystem. It was significantly faster. That alone makes it a worthy upgrade for me.
The "let's spin up all removable drives, and read all network shares before you may continue" thing is truly a killer. It's been there since forever and looks like it will stay that way
The Mac has the spin up issue for media drives in Finder too. But 8 don't think it does it from KODI networking if it's loading a SSD so I mostly blame Finder, which is ancient and gets no love. Windows, however is a behemoth and turning into a giant advertising schlock OS. It's a shame Linux doesn't get more commercial software outside of ChromeOS and Android. The Linux community having a half dozen or more competing standards has a lot to do with that, unfortunately. It seems too much freedom among too few users means little support.
Library / Schools / Businesses: This is not your PC, this is THIS PC I mean ours. Consumers with multiple users set up: Dad, is this My Computer or This PC? Dad: Well, it is actually My Computer since I bought it; You are just another user of This PC.
The whole "My computer" " My Control Panel" etc thing was childish beyond belief, how can anyone take that seriously. I'd say it would be My Mistake to even consider that Fisher Price OS.
Laptops also have major issue with randomly failing to sleep and laptops keep running in backpacks like a furnace. This hasn’t been resolved for years now. A basic simple S3 suspend to ram function was replaced by smart connected sleep, but no one asked Microsoft for that feature and no way to opt out and properly suspend to ram like the old days. This also affects handheld gaming PCs
My 2021 Zephyrus G14 has had terrible issues with this in both 10 and 11. It works finr on Ubuntu. The issue is bad enough that it has gotten so hot the LCD is permanently damaged. The only solution I have found in Windows is to set it to hibernate after 8 minutes. This works but I suspect it is hard on my SSD and is generally just stupid. Why can't it "just work"?
You can hibernate (by enabling that option) but that adds more issues. If hibernate interferes with windows update, you better hope you have your daily backups at hand.
@@dcf8978 My colleague's Zephyrus G14 2023 have the same sleep issue. My Zephyrus G16 2024 have also the same sleep issue. :/ Lenovo Legion Go also had similar issue. If Microsoft offers a way to turn off the smart sleep and suspend to RAM like old S3. I don't want my apps to keep running in background to receive notifications and updates. A computer is neither a phone nor a tablet. why force everyone to do that ?!
@@bassemmohsen8405 "A computer is neither a phone nor a tablet. why force everyone to do that ?!" Because sadly, on that front, Apple and Microsoft are alike : they know better than you how you should use your stuff and thay'll make sure you know it. On another note, maybe I'm missing something, but I do not see the point of Sleep state nowadays. As long as the OS is not installed on spinning rust, a cold boot is still VERY fast (assuming you don't have 10 gazillion malwares starting at logon, (wich, sure, for a lot of people, is entirely possible). Obviously, Hibernation with "network on" cause wayyyy bigger issues than the ones it solves...the few times it works... The classic Hibernation, with no network BS seems the best solution, as no matter what, WU will find a way to F you up anyway.
And they wonder why a lot of us still on Windows 10 aren't just jumping on this "free upgrade" to Windows 11 even if our PCs pass the hardware requirements.
@yarost12 i was agreeing with this, until i encountered all the windows 11 errors, windows 11 is honestly an abomination right now, i have been thinking of going back to 10 and up until recently i almost always supported a new windows.
@@anthonyrizzo9043 W10 will only be viable for another few months. After that it should only be run in a VM protected from the internet. Happily, you can easily do this in Linux!
@@yarost12 Never held out on 7, got 10 when it surpassed it. Downloaded Windows 11, instant issues, horrible right click menu, constant bugs with usb, among other issues.
The issue Rich was describing is that Windows will try to guess the contents of all folders in the folder you're entering into so it can generate appropriate thumbnails (even if you're on detail view). There's a registry setting for this under: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell] "FolderType"="NotSpecified"
@GreenStorm01 Not saying I like that consumers need to fix Microsoft's bugs, just pointing out the root cause of that specific issue and how to fix it if Rich (or others) want to
I wish Microsoft would go back to Windows 7 and make minimal changes aside from adding security and driver updates, Auto HDR and refining Windows media centre for living room TVs
8:55 Rich's problem is because the media player is indexing ALL of your storage media, regardless of internal or external com ports. That way, your library will be fully synced when the program is opened. Essentially, it's just looking for new media files that it doesn't already have a directory link to.
@@asrr62 Hunt Showdown works just fine. So does Payday 3, Payday 2, Crime Boss: Rockay City, Rocket League, etc. If they need kernel level anticheat so badly that they're willing to block Linux with it, then I don't need to play it. My Steam library has over 500 games in it. I can find something else to play.
@@asrr62 Depends on which ones. Blizzard games run fine (Overwatch, WoW, SC2, etc...) Valve games, of course, are fine (CS2, Dota2). If those were your main multiplayer games you could switch today and never notice a problem. OW2 runs better on Linux on my machine than on W11 anyway. But if you play LoL, Apex, Destiny2, etc.... Then yeah, you're going to be out of luck.
I'm happy for all of you that made the switched, but "switch to Linux" is just not a viable alternative for 90% percent of Windows users, especially gamers. Yes, there are lots of workarounds and settings you can tweak but an equal amount of "wtf"/nonsensical errors that you encounter just doing everyday things.
HDR is in the works on Linux for years now, probably getting usable on desktop next year. The problem with it is that you need to compose all SDR content together with HDR content if necessary. For this you basically need to guess a transform function or get the user to manually configure that for each application. It would be way easier to implement if it only activated for fullscreen HDR content and automatically disabled afterwards.
I concur with John's sentiments regarding HDD's. I repair PC's and occasionally involves trying to remove data from old HDD's. If I attach a drive to my caddy that's having issues, it will completely lock the whole machine until I either disconnect the caddy or turn it off. Unfortunately the 'problem' is not software related but at the underlying storage level. The computer has to wait until the drive has either spun up or timed out.
It is a software problem the moment I right click something on desktop, that has absolutely nothing to do with another drive, and the system locks up until it spins up. Also I have NEVER seen this happening on a Linux install.
Tip: Change to a USB port that runs a older USB standard. Also, some drive adapters work better on defective drives, which is why I save all my old hard drive adapters. That's all the experience I can give you without a bill.
I've used Linux Mint for a decade, and I do think more users will switch to Linux, but I think a massive number of people will buy a new Macbook instead of use Windows11. I've gotten most of my family using Linux, including grandparents, mainly because they don't do anything that would require a Windows OS. Most people only use a computer to use the internet, and Microsoft has made that simple process a nightmare.
@@thejackimonster9689 If you don't game and instead use the internet and do photo and video editing, then Mac is the way to go. The vast majority of people who use PC's don't use it for gaming.
@@OutLanderUSN But which person is watching a video of people complaining about gaming issues on Windows and decides to switch towards MacOS where gaming is a massively bigger shit show than on Windows 11? It's a complete non-solution for the main audience here. Who cares that it might work for people that don't play games? Most of the people who don't do that would be fine with a cheaper Chromebook or only a smartphone/tablet anyway. Most people are certainly not content creators and even then, many of them can do that via a tablet or phone these days.
@@thejackimonster9689 Which gamers are actively switching to MacOS? They're probably the only group that actively researches hardware and software and go out of their way to determine the best move, and none of them are switching to Mac, as we all know that Mac is in a much worse spot for gaming than anything else. The post you responded to initially didn't even bring up gaming as a reason for switching; YOU made it about gaming when it wasn't about that in the first place. And the video we're talking under doesn't have anything directly to do with gaming either, but rather issues that affect *EVERY* Windows user, including content creators and internet surfers. Who are more likely to switch to Mac because apart from Windows, it's what they know as relatively decent.
Things like this have pushed me to give up on PC gaming. I also work in IT, and the last thing I want to do at night is troubleshoot my own system after doing it all day (plus I get paid nothing for my own troubleshooting!). I never thought I’d think like that before I started working in the industry, but soon after starting I barely used my PC in my free time. I love my job, but also like to switch off at 5pm. These days I have more fun with consoles and collecting physical games.
The Series X and PS5 are great consoles, hardware wise. They're fast, well made, and have a (relatively) small form factor compared to a PC tower. The suite of games on them is extremely disappointing and limited, but I think they are really good consoles. I've got a PC now but the Series X was a great system for me in 2020 when I couldn't afford a PC. Having a simple, efficient, and reliable system is nice. I still have my Series X, and it will serve as my living room blu-ray player until it dies. I may still play the occasional game on it if I have someone over.
That, and particularly from a AAA game perspective, there are virtually no ports to pc that perform WELL for the hardware they're on. There are still a wealth of games that simply won't or can't be ported to console, like certain game designs and/or control schemes just don't translate to console well enough to be worth playing, let alone developing. Also plenty of indie titles and lower budget ones. But anything within the space of AAA games is just going to perform far better for console and be more stable, because the gaming market is mostly for consoles in that regard, and they genuinely couldn't care beyond the point of a pc port simply existing. Proper optimization for pc? Anti-cheat that works? Botting? Well, you won't have to deal with that on console (at least not in remotely the same degree).
Join the club OP. I am in IT since early 90s and I think exactly like you! I use Windows and Linux as my daily drivers, but I am seriously considering going to MacOs since their Mac Mini M4 launch is showing a 'tour de force' of what a tiny machine can produce at very low wattage and space.
give Linux a try if you are into single player games. everything without a anti cheat is working in Linux right now. and even some anti-cheats like EAC do work in linux. is literally only some of the competitive games that don't then pick a long term release distro like Kubuntu or Mint, if you try and everything works(and most likely it will) then you set. then you don't actually need to do anything on that machine for a long time.
Spot on. As a software engineer, nothing tempts me to sit at a desk gaming on PC after work. If I do game, I much prefer to sit on my sofa, switch on the Series X, and within 30 seconds I'm gaming on my OLED with no issues.
I've been on Linux for the last 6 months and honestly, I do not miss windows at all, hopefully SteamOS brings all the features I'm missing from Windows such as a proper HDR implementation as Valve did on the Steam Deck OLED, other than that I'm good.
I am mostly all linux at this point, i have a second drive with w10 that kinda just exists whenever i want to play certain unsupported games with my significant other
About 20 years exclusive on Linux for me... Nowadays, Steam serves me well for all my games. I don't really go for AAA games and indie and AA games are generally better to play anyway.
@@cacomeat7385 Yeah I have an SSD with Win11 for the just in cases lol, all the games that I've played this year all worked out of the box on Ubuntu, in fact my friend has better hardware than I do and according to him Black Myth was stuttering on his 4090 but it was on my 3080ti, sure I did lower some of the most demanding features but I had no stuttering , and framerate was great.
Yep, I'm glad I'm still on Windows 10. These kinds of issues in an OS are unacceptable, and that's ignoring Microsoft's obvious attempts to shove ads in everyone's face, or data mine the shit out of us.
@@Carrion2 And options. If one distro doesn't work for you, there is always another. When that doesn't work for you, there is always another. Six-months later when that one program you need won't run, there is always another.
@@Carrion2 It's getting closer. Once I can get more than 75% of my games playble in Linux I will likely start making that leap. Until then... I still use Winders 10 and 7. I am definitely looking forward to Linux finally catching up to modern gaming systems. And sure... I know it's not entirely their fault as the mfg's don't product reliable drivers but a large portion of the linux echosphere is fully of toxic neckbeards too.
@@Carrion2 How's the language support on Linux nowadays? I need to switch between English, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese on the regular so poor language support is a deal breaker (Win 10 is good but some improvements are still possible; Win 11 is a regression in usability).
It's the end of December 2024, and we just returned two brand new PCs with 4070 GPUs (total worth about $5,000) because of Windows 11. OneDrive literally moved all of my wife's files to the cloud the very instant she moved them onto the PC without asking. This after making her create a Microsoft account. How is this not data theft? Even worse, there was no option to create a local user without going into the command line. Once we did that, the resultant local user profile became slower than ditch water. Even worse, 11's local user profile did not query for the language and left behind all of the entire world's Office 365 language packs, which somehow could not be deleted. As for OneDrive, every time we uninstalled it, it would reinstall itself an hour later. We finally gave up.
Literally just made the switch to Mint cinnamon today, I'm hoping, was a lil disappointed when I found a bunch of games don't work, but I think just need proton or whatever
Glad I don't bother with Windows 11, and never want to unless I'm forced. Once I'm forced, then Linux & MacOS will become primary OSs. What a mess, Microsoft.
I'm a bit in trouble, because the applications i need for my engineering work are almost all exclusive to Windows. Some are macOS, but i don't like the hardware. I have a 19" stacked workstation and not a small box with soldered on miniature storage and not enough beef for running a multi GPU Hypervisor.
@@AQDuck Except that an immutable distro like say Bazzite makes more sense for a noob user. Much less chance of breaking everything and ending up in a mess. SteamOS being immutable is a positive for someone that has no clue how Linux works.
@@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418 Actually _bigger_ chance of breaking it if you do anything at all on a system level or installing a package outside of Flatpak. There are immutable distros that are designed for desktop use that have thought of that. SteamOS, Bazzite, etc. are _not._
@@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418 alternatively using Pop!_OS with Timeshift and it's built in Refresh function gives a balance been changeability and reliability. I did start recommending Immutable/Atomic because of my positive experiences with Fedora Kinoite but in retrospect it's only because I've become conversant with Toolbox-bare metal crossover, which is a power-user skill Id say.
I have an excel sheet at work that started crashing after Windows 11 update. It works fine until I copy and paste data within the sheet. It freezes and then begins not responding.
Install some flavor of OpenOffice (LibreOffice is your best bet). It does everything MS Office does and then some. I have used it to open spreadsheets that Excel didn't know what to do with.
Between advertisements, OneDrive enabling itself and relocating my files, restarting sound drivers, taking forever to start in safe mode, search finding anything but what I’m looking for, taskbar icons disappearing, HDR issues, the file issues that were referenced in this video.. I’m just gonna stop there I just want anything but windows at this point. I have a high end system and it’s dedicated to gaming and occasional web browsing. SteamOS is going to be perfect when it’s ready. I don’t need all the bloat that comes with windows.. and if I do want bloat I can install that myself
SteamOS is NOT a desktop distro and if you are going for it, you'll just end up back on Windows within a month. EndeavourOS is based on Arch, _actually up-to-date,_ and not a locked down system. It's meant for desktop use and will give you BETTER gaming performance.
@@AQDuckAye, I switched to Endeavour OS about 6months ago. Once I found all the right software that was apples to apples on what I used in Win 10, everything else has been a breeze. About the only minor complaints is the pita to setup auto-mount drives on boot, discord screen sharing and wine. Like anything Linux, it's a learning curve but once you get setup it's simple and effective. I still have dual boot with Windows 10 but I've probably used it twice tops.
@@TodHunterGD KDE's partition manager works great for auto mounting drives, never had to use terminal for it. And screen sharing now works _mostly_ flawlessly with audio in Discord Canary (probably next Discord stable update)
@@kenshii9d147 Way better than SteamOS since it's _basically_ Arch with some extra GUI tools and the hard part already set up. It gets updates when Arch gets them and not a year later like Steam deck.
I tried Linux Mint a couple of months ago - with absolutely ZERO prior experience. Frankly was shocked how intuitive and most importantly non-combative it felt. Didn't have to use the terminal once.
@@mungojerrie86 I used to work at a web host and learned Linux on the job. I was comfortable with the command line but found the GUI a bit lacking. Since then it's improved so much, it's better than Windows. That's all the main distros too, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch and Mint I've tried. I have a HTPC that runs bazzite.
@@mungojerrie86As someone who has used the terminal and Linux for a long time, I would suggest taking the time and getting comfortable with some basic commands if nothing else. You'd be surprised at what you can do and how fast you can get it done. And, God forbid, if/when something does break, being familiar with how to edit files in the terminal, how to connect to the network, how to download, or just how to navigate, will save you a lot of time and frustration later on. Because while Linux can break, since it's a community of people who do leg work, 90% of the trivial problems have a easily available solution. Plus, you can use fortune >> cowsay, neofetch (or whatever, if anything, replaced it) and any number of Matrix ripoff commands and be *Hackerman!* Just don't get into tiling window managers and put on programming socks. That's too much.
i been on linux for one year now, and I'm surprised how well things work. specially games... and it actually has gotten better during last year, i literally can't remember when i had a game that didn't worked from the box in the last 6 months
I've been using Fedora KDE for a year now and really don't miss Windows at all. It's amazing having an operating system that doesn't fight me over every little thing. (Caveat: when Linux does decide to fight you, it's going to hurt.)
3:50 having recently used Windows NT 4.0 I can assure that yes, in some aspects Windows of almost 30 years ago feels much snappier in some aspects, especially folder navigation, and that's also true while using hardware of that epoch.
This extends to a lot of software too. I've still got a copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 installed. Sure, it lacks a lot of features that modern image editors have, but it's so fast. Probably faster than a modern image viewer.
I switched over to a fork of arch a few months ago, it's been a good experience! Highly recommend at least trying a distro, you might be surprised how many just work from the start
My XSX has been collecting dust since launch. I hate the clunky UI experience and I’m still bitter over how the hdmi-hec enabled on XSX screwed up all of my other hdmi-hec devices in my AVR setup. XSX was the only one that broke it. Not a cable or splitter issue. Had to reconnect and restart all other hdmi devices on the chain and haven’t had a single issue since then My trust in MS software and basic functionality is pretty low. Win7 and Xbox 360 maybe was the pinnacle
Pretty much every crappy thing in windows 11 has been faithfully back dated into Windows 11 (except maybe co-pilot?) and support for it dies next year leaving your device vulnerable to everything going forward. So, you aren't really saving yourself from anything staying on 10.
The deeper I get into this operating system the more one realizes how much of a depressing nightmare they have created. Windows 11 is like being locked inside a cyber concentration prison camp where you get punished for trying to get free from their shackles and they set all kinds of traps to destroy your attempt to break free. One Drive, BitLocker Encryption and TPM 2.0 are the guards ordered to shoot and kill any data that tries to escape.
8:25 : Yes, YES ! Finally, someone is talking about that ! It grounded my gear every time it happened ! Why does File Explorer needs to wake up every drive connected to my PC before letting me access a folder wich is not on any of those fekkin drives ? It was grinding those gears so much that it was one of the main reason I dumped all those drives into a homemade NAS and called it a day. It's not a W11 problem, I'm on 10.
I once had a secondary HDD dying on 10 and THE ENTIRE MACHINE was reduced to a crawl even while I was doing nothing to access that drive. Pure insanity
To prevent other drives from waking up when accessing a specific drive in Windows, you can adjust power settings: Power Options: Go to Control Panel > Power Options. Select your plan and click on "Change plan settings." Then, click "Change advanced power settings." Under "Hard disk," set "Turn off hard disk after" to Never. Device Manager: Open Device Manager, locate "Universal Serial Bus Controllers," right-click on ALL USB Root Hubs and controllers, and in the Power Management tab, uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power. Do this for everything USB. Also consider different file manager, File Explorer sucks.
So that's what it is huh ? Wow. Gonna have to get myself a NAS then. I've been thinking about it for backups for a few years now. Might actually take te plunge. I heard Raid10 is the thing which mean I need a 6 disk unit. (alreadu own 4x 22TB so I only need to get 2 extras). Thanks for the info, much appreciated
@@SepticFuddy How did you configure yours, regarding file access ? with SMB ? Being quite a novice in that regard, that's what I did, and my NAS never freeze my Explorer... I deactivated spindown for my spinning rust tho, I only have 6 HDDs in total, and I heard the highest likelyhood of disk failure are when said disks goes form 0 RPM.
I really long for the day where Valve can get Steam OS working on ALL platforms, namely systems with Nvidia GPUs. Nobody playing games on a PC should have to deal with Windows ever again.
@@khhnator SteamOS does not ship Nvidia's proprietary drivers though and I imagine Valve won't ship them with a generic ISO because they conflict with Mesa drivers on Arch. So the obvious thing to do for them is implementing an open-source driver for modern Nvidia GPUs in Mesa that might not be fully comparable feature-wise in productivity tasks but performs even in gaming. Then they can only ship Mesa drivers out of the box and 90% of all users with Nvidia GPUs won't ever need to switch drivers or deal with separate packages on SteamOS. It's exactly what we currently see with the development of the NVK driver in Mesa and it will make SteamOS having one of the best out of the box experiences for gaming on pretty much any desktop PC. No hassle with configuration essentially.
I built my first gaming PC last year after gaming mostly on consoles for 30 years and didn’t even bother with Windows. I have such a great experience with the Steam Deck that I just went with Linux. Couldn’t be happier!
my ~7 year old pc" i5 7400 gtx 1060 3gb w10" is just so much better than my 11th gen i7 11700k with a 3050 with w11 on it..sure a few of the new games i have do run a touch smoother"they should" but it's not worth all the accompanied headache. i only upgraded for bg3, but a patch put my ol boi back in the game very playable in the 3rd act.
I also extreme debloat my Win11 24H2 and it works wonder at the cost of compatibility. Able to achieve around 900MB 54process in idle. UWP apps doesn't work but I don't use them so it's aight.
@@khhnator I do, I tried Nobara and CachyOS and both require quite a lot of effort for me especially installing non-steam games, games that use kernel anti cheat doesn't work in Linux. My laptop also run around 15c hotter and what more concerning is the CPU stayed at 90c during heavy load, while on Windows it usually around 70c. I also noticed both distro or I guess Linux overall doesn't work great with hybrid GPU setup(black screen watching Yt videos in Fullscreen, also there's blackscreen that keep happening after I m using these distros for a while)
Also there seems to be an issue which when you play the game for over a while there seems to be a stuttery mess happening every time I move my mouse. After several days of trying to find the solution, it seems like it related to steam overlay even with it's disabled in settings can cause some kind of overload in the background during games, it's a known bug, been a month or two.. Do you think Linux is worth it to use with all the issue that's going on?
That media center spooling problem was something caused by Windows 7's introduction of Media Center libraries. The default libraries included a dynamic list of external drives. It would scan all drives for media when starting Media Center. Used to be you could either disable the default system media libraries, or redefine the libraries to exclude external drives. It used to be there so it could identify optical media upon startup. Or just use VLC.
SteamOS is currently the only sign of a major company supporting a push for Linux into gaming. If Valve can start gaining traction with steamOS in OEM device (laptops, desktops, handhelds, etc), then we might actually be in for a good time. Here's hoping!
Copilot is causing massive slow downs. They pushed it to Win 10 and I have instantly disabled it - opening menu, taskbar arrow takes a delay to open, etc After taking odd Copilot all is back to normal. Absolute crap .
One incredible tedious thing is setting all my regular use apps to override high dpi scaling (that you cannot override globally). Then an update drops and switches back ALL the apps to the default scaling.. So I start seeing blurred apps, games not starting or crashing until I realize that setting was reverted to default 😡.
Switched to Linux a few weeks ago (Nobara) no regrets.. Games even play better. For AMD systems its prime. Stalker 2 and SH2 both much better experiences. Less stutter by a mile.
Nobara is great! for those reading, it's basically Fedora with some game-ready support apps/drivers installed, and I think steam out of the box. I highly back-up recommend Nobara too.
For stutters, maybe, for overall performance, Linux and even its performance/gaming focused distros are still way behind, up to 50% slower in the majority of cases compared to W10, so if you have expensive hardware, like a 4070 and up, just use W10, you're wasting performance potential, with that said, everything else is better on Linux, tough choice.
@Taldirok not true with really any of the AAA games I play. 50% is a huge difference. If we're talking nvidea yes it's still behind. AMD hardware excells on Linux. I'm running a 7800x3d and a 7900xt. No games I have that perform worse. I was on windows 10/11 for years. I know how my games performed. I had no issues with windows but I was pleasantly surprised with Nobara. I encourage you to look at some Nobara vs windows benchmarks using an AMD card. Typicaly ahead with better 1% lows
Now you understand why people who could easily game on pc will stick to console. When I come home from work I just want to play, not fight with my machine and hope I am getting the performance I paid for
@@deanchur if everyone started single you wouldn't have Dev's that make games or deliverymen etc. that said a lot of places need to start reducing population slowly
I don't understand these comments. The majority of windows users do not need to fight their computer. You people make it sound like win11 is unusable. It might be bad, but its usable.
This is why AAA game players use Windows. It works the best. The performance you paid for is only about a hundred bucks for Windows, and the rest of the cost is your components, and peripherals.
To be fair, both MacOS and GNOME use Javascript and WebViews to render basic system components too. It's not so much the web technology that's the problem, but rather the willingness to use it to show you ads and sponsored content.
web technology has powered OSes for as long as it has existed and is not inherently problematic. the most important factors are whether the tool is able to adequately meet a need, and whether it's a "user need" or a "corporate need"
@@dial2616 what MacOS UIs are rendered in JS lmao? I call major BS on this. Microsoft has several telltales that this might be happening. Also haven't seen any evidence on Gnome and other desktop managers.
Over the years as newer versions of Windows has appeared, I tend to just remove the network connection on the older models and just use the local programs that were specifically written for that OS, if they are still useful. Or sometimes just keep them in a local network group.🤔
IT manager here, Windows 11 is the worse and you all hit it on the head when it comes to updates breaking applications all over the place, AND all the problems of system performance...what performance?!
When Microsoft bought Bethesda, they took both QA departments and combined them. These massive companies brought these hugely important departments together, bringing the total head-count to 0. Nah I'm just picking. Their QA departments are actually huge. Just look at the total sales and you can get an estimate of how many customers paid to be QA.
@@JTCulverhouse LTSC version don't contain the microsoft store and any of the UWP stuff (save for Settings), and are as barebones as Windows can get. No ads in your startmenu. It otherwise aligns with the Enterprise variant rather than Professional. The new IOT moniker is just a title to discourage general use as it is intended for long running machines, but is otherwise a full version of windows. Using this version of windows will reduce your frame times by 2 whole milliseconds and will therefore making you a better professional counter strike combatant.
@@JTCulverhouse It comes without pre-installed apps / store and only receives security updates meaning it's a build frozen in time. IMO it's rather useless as it still comes with 90% of the bloat.
I know someone who had an update delete their audio drivers and codices and crashing when I tried to install them manually. A few months later another update fixed it.
After the release of 24H2, Windows isn't even the best for gaming anymore. A lot of games stopped working and aren't compatible with 24h2. None of the Empress cracked games work anymore. However I am still able to run Empress games through Linux.
@Stormlywing The deeper I get into this operating system the more one realizes how much of a depressing nightmare they have created. Windows 11 is like being locked inside a cyber concentration prison camp where you get punished for trying to get free from their shackles and they set all kinds of traps to destroy your attempt to break free. One Drive, BitLocker Encryption and TPM 2.0 are the guards ordered to shoot and kill any data that tries to escape.
The only reason people use Windows is because they have a government mandated monopoly. They’ve had this for thirty years and it shows no signs of relenting. They don’t seem to have competent employees anymore, they add worthless features and remove useful ones, and they force damaging updates on you if you want to use new software. I switched to Ubuntu last year and despite the many drawbacks I’m not looking back.
true, its tiring messing about every few weeks or months bcos a forced update has landed that is mainly full of bloat or uneeded changes & can cause failures in apps that have worked fine.. i also find i have to click more times to do things i used to do in 1 or 2 clicks.. & the lack of control of what i have on my own pc is disturbing.. most bloat cannot be removed, or if u do it just re-installs on next reboot or background update, which tbh is malware habits
I've been saying this since befire 11 even launched. The preview versions were nothing but red flags to me. Its to the point where after messing with 11 on a VM a few times and even the 24h2 update, I've decided when 10 goes EOL im going either Linux or Steam OS.
Steam OS 3.x is just another Linux distro Launch Steam with the -tenfoot launch argument if you want their interface Gamescope can be installed on basically every distro
If im not mistaken, 2:25, Microsoft does not contract qa engineers for most of its projects, it’s the responsibility of the devs to do the qa. (Which i think is a huge mistake because qa is a hole field on its own, not only making sure something “works”).
This here is one of the reasons I haven't updated to 11. I've heard this from multiple VR users. I enjoy playing in VR and I'm not willing to lose the ability to play VR for no reason at all.
This isn't even a bug, M$ actually went out of their way to rip Mixed Reality code out of DWM because they decided on our behalf that it's obsolete Meanwhile on Linux Micro$oft's own VR is still supported 😂
O damm i never hear about thath! I want to get a Pimax on the future.. my sistem is W11 should i have some concern abouth thath? What are the problems than you get on VR whit W11?
@ramonzaions7522 it's just for Windows Mixed Reality Headsets, which they don't make anymore so you're fine! I ordered a psvr2 to replace my Samsung Odyssey Plus with
The "waiting for all hard drives to spool up" bug definitely predates windows 11. I have never installed 11 on my PC (so far) and that bug made me Switch to SSDs only more than 5 years ago. I'm not entirely certain if I was still on 8.1 or already on 10 at the time, but I assure you it wasn't 11!
Nobara Linux rescued me from Windows, thankfully. Performance is excellent. Do I get some issues or small annoyances sometimes? Yes, because I am still learning to properly use Linux. However it is much much better than accepting Microsoft's increasingly intrusive abuse.
@thejackimonster9689 Yeah, I've tried Linux with the Steam Deck and to be honest, it's wat better, the worse thing about Linux is that Windows has better UI, that's it.
@@SweetFlexZ Better UI? Windows? Okay, I've never heard this response in my life. What exactly do you mean? I mean on Linux you can choose between pretty much any UI theme you like. You can pick out of a wide range of desktop environments to use. If anything doesn't look right, you can change that essentially.
Well, both PC and console are doing quite well, the Switch 2 could break new records with it's backwards compatibility with the already popular Switch 1, and Valve seems nearing to release SteamOS to take advantage of Windows fall. They may even time the release for the End of Support for Windows 10 to maximise the amount of people jumping ship to Linux. 2025 is shaping up to be an important year for the future of gaming
I kept using Windows 10 even though my old laptop could run 11. When it was time for me to get a new laptop a few weeks ago, I ordered it without preinstalled OS (no Windows and cheaper price = win-win). After some experimentation, I got Fedora Linux with KDE Plasma 6running well on it.
Settings changing without reason or warning is my personal worst Windows "bug"(?) A few days ago I thought my 3 year old microphone was starting to die. I use sound passthrough (whatever that's called) so you can hear everything as if you weren't wearing headphones, but it suddenly stopped working. I didn't want to buy a new one right away, so I kept thinking, "Is it REALLY my microphone or has Windows messed it up again?" And there it was. NOT in the sound settings, but hidden in the device manager, voice monitoring was randomly disabled. Maybe someone in the update department at Microsoft just loves to screw people over.
Maybe Satya Nadella should take a page out of Todd Howard's book and state, "It's a next-gen OS; we really do push the technology, so you need to update your hardware." That or Nigel Tufnel's "These goes to 11".
I have the latest Mac OS on my m3 pro MacBook Pro and it has several issues, not to mention much slower overall than windows 11. My 2022 G14 has never had a problem with windows 11.
@ you cappin or running the worst kind of softwares on the Mac, cause my M1 Pro still runs far better than a equivalent windows laptop, plus it has same performance when unplugged so idk how it can even be slower unless you talking about graphics
@@MapleEmpire 💯 been running my life on M1 macs since 2020 and they still perform great. I recently bought a Surface Laptop 7 with the supposed M3-killer Snapdragon Elite and that shit sucks. I was building a not-so-complex C project on it and thinking it didn't take that long. When I switched to my M1 (baseline, not even Pro) MBP it just blew the Surface Laptop away building the exact same project.
I went from DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win XP, Win 7, and Win 10. I'm still using Win XP in a VM due to one program that I use on it still. I'll be hanging onto Win 10 for as long as I can. Even if it means being offline most of the time.
Funny thing about Windows 11 sometimes holding until all connected storage devices are on when accessing a folder, the same behavior happens on my instance of Windows 10. External USB, NAS, it doesn't matter. It has to wake up each drive.
Windows 11’s problems stem from the fact Microsoft has converted Windows from a desktop OS into a marketing and services delivery platform. The telemetry, the incessant reminders to use OneDrive or Office, the entire OS is designed to upsell you and part you from your money as opposed to enable you to get things done.
Bingo…Windows 10 suffers from this paradigm shift also. I’d gladly pay retail for a decent OS and for them to remove the bloat and spyware.
Time to move to Linux.
I mean it's the same NT kernel tho
Sure, but that is unrelated to crashes and software incompatibility.
@@GigaChad_169Why pay when you can get any one of dozens, if not hundreds of alternative operating systems, all filling your needs for free?
Honestly, this video has kinda opened my eyes to the fact that most of the issues I have with my PC are just Windows 11's fault and not something I've done wrong with my hardware configuration...
Same here. I reset my PC around 3 times this year due to issues with Windows 11, that I wasn't getting with Windows 10. Glad to see that this video confirmed it.
I tried troubleshooting an issue with a brand new PC and got frustrated when someone just told me to downgrade to 10. SURELY it was an issue with the games or how I set up the hardware. Nope, turns out it literally was just 11 being horse shit.
I felt the same way about you...
@@virtualpilgrim8645 lol
@@cacomeat7385 What sucks is they're gonna force us upgrade eventually, or else lose access to important security updates. I haven't decided yet if, when that day comes, I'll update or just go offline altogether. Most of my games are DRM free + singleplayer, so I do have the option to just pull the ethernet cord out lol. But yeah hopefully, by the time the update becomes mandatory, they've got their shit together.
tbf though when it came to the mandatory 7 > 10 update, windows 10 was actually in pretty good shape by then imo. So _hopefully_ the same goes with windows 11.
There is no QA department for Windows. There has not been a dedicated QA department since 2015. This shift led to a reduction in traditional Quality Assurance (QA) roles, with developers assuming greater responsibility for testing their code, often utilizing virtual machines (VMs) and automated testing tools. The transition was part of a broader move towards DevOps practices, emphasizing continuous integration and delivery. However, this change raised concerns about the potential increase in software bugs due to the diminished emphasis on dedicated QA teams.
I says mostly the same. They literally do not employ QA and simply throw a feature over the wall for some teams to look at which are not connected to the dev process. Which is awful for quality.
there is this guy with a youtube channel, called bernacules nerdgasm that used to work at microsoft QA so years ago he made a video and he said this stuff will happend because they basically layed off the entire QA team including himself and replace it with virtual machine testing which will lead into problems to the end user for not actually testing with real hardware. Microsoft doesn't give a crap anymore.
oh...m$ do have QA...but its now "Quality Adventure"
I get memory reference errors when I switch off windows on my Intel laptop and amd desktop, not on my windows tablet. So insane.
The FREE UPGRADE to Windows 10 was to recruit lots of labrats!
Which is why when Windows Home users uninstall the bloat apps, they are reinstalled with the next update!
M$ needs these unpain beta testers!
Microsoft fired most of their QA department back when the Windows Insider Program became a thing with the release of Windows 10. It was in all the big news outlets back in the day, I don't know how so many of big tech tubers have missed out on that.
Yeah ever since 10 windows has been a joke. 8 only gets a bad rep because of the start menu which was truly its only issue. Other than that 8.1 was a great OS.
@@9852323 and then you installed classic shell and all those issues went away
As soon as the Windows Insider Program became their primary source for testing main releases, any serious issues that would crop up would end up in the Feedback Hub not being looked at or being super low priority. I doubt they took the Feedback Hub as seriously as some other internal tooling with serious feedback.
It is enough to look at GitHub and issues on as popular projects as Windows to see how noisy feedback from the entire public can get. There's a reason internal testing worked better.
The thing about this is that there is a plethora of individual hardware out in the wild to test with, not to mention, mix and matching. Why waste billions on physical hardware when you can simply use virtual machines to test individual hardware specs?
Just before that they had the Technical Beta Team. We would do the testing, bugs would be reported to QA, they would see if they could recreate the bug and if so determine who to pass the bug to. I left the team and it was not much longer after that where there were management shifts. Brad Silverburg left and that was the first step in the OS going downhill. I left after a bug I reported for 3-4 test releases was reported in the papers when the OS was released. They had the bug, they had the steps and they ignored fixing it...until the public started screaming about it.
If we are moaning about Windows 11 issues we have:
- The longstanding bug of the mouse cursor sometimes disappearing when it goes over an application like Excel or explorer which I've had over multiple versions of Windows
- Windows randomly wakeing from sleep (and then digging through cryptic event viewer logs to decipher why it resumed or crashed)
- Numerous I/O interrupt issues, sometimes it just freezes for a few seconds when I try to copy a file
- Explorer not refreshing when making file changes e.g. delete/move/rename. (may be something to do with quick access/ network drives?)
- The background in explorer becoming black behind random folders / text
- And a deliberate change rather than a bug - When you click on your user icon in the start menu rather than letting you quickly switch to other user profiles, they changed it so it now shows the status of Microsoft subscription services. Thanks Microsoft because that’s what I want to do regularly /s
I have tried 1,000 different solutions to fix Windows 11 from waking up randomly from sleep. Good to see other people have this issue.
I/O and Explorer not refreshing have been a problem since 10, which I'm actively using (v2004).. so chalk up another few years of an issue never being fixed.
I swear my htpc on windows 10 is possessed. Thing wakes it self up at random several times a week.
Sleep is broken on everything I've ever used, iOS, Android, win, Linux, even game consoles, it just never just works. And yet for some reason I still use it.
Have you disabled everything , usb, wake timers, and "power button"(WoL)? (You'll have to leave one usb on, like your keyboard) this has worked for me, the "power button"(WoL) one in particular was doing it idk why because that doesn't happen on Linux and there's no WoL on my network.
Don´t forget we don´t have the sync option anymore and have no option but to work on one drive files in BROWSER for fk sake this is beyond me
Windows Search getting even worse with each version since 8. You search for a file or program and it not even able to find it. Continues to search online opening up edge and bing.
THIS!
The last good window search is windows xp
Yes!!! It's so infuriating. I've actually done the search by copy/pasting the name from the file's actual details and it sometimes doesn't find it. What the Hell???
meanwhile linux and even mac have INCREDIBLE search tools, both GUI and CLI
Use settings and disable it going online...it is not hard...
Satya Nadella needs to stop force feeding AI onto everybody, and realign Microsoft's focus onto their core product which has been neglected for years.
But how can they get subscription and ad revenue from a well behaving OS that doesn’t spy on its users or require subscriptions to use certain features? Won’t you please think of the trillion dollar company and billionaire CEO?
it's not profitable
I want AI but not this dogshit what they offer. I want something like in Notion with intuitive integration and UI and features that make me enjoy using it
There is no money in that. Why would he do that. He only cares about how good MS looks for being "at the forefront" of AI, even if that means adding what amounts to spyware to you system. Windows Recall should tell you all you need to know about where MS' head is at these days in-terms of Windows.
Microsoft doesn't care about it's customers. Listening to the customers isn't as profitable as listening to the share holders. I really feel like it's time for people to start moving away from Microsoft since it's obvious they're going to remain extremely hostile towards their user base
let's not forget the one where sometimes ctrl + C just will fail to copy to clipboard. if you try copy and paste before it's "finished copying" (???) then it will just fail out and the copy will not proceed, so you still have the old thing on your clipboard instead. this never happened before 8 or 10 from my memory, maybe 7? it was always a, if you copy this, it WILL be in the clipboard deal. then somewhere it changed to "sometimes the copy operation will fail silently in the background and you have no clue that it failed" causing you to paste your last thing instead of the one you actually just copied.
or the fact that your start menu used to be infinitely arrangeable with those metro tiles but now it's just a single line of sequential apps that you can only rearrange left to right in rows, no more sliding something above something else without now shifting every other icon to the right one space and messing up every single line order of every other app to the right of it in the single row.
oh and how about the one where you can no longer pick small sized task bar, only large is available now, so you can't have a slim taskbar anymore
oh and how you have to tweak a registry tweak to get the actual right click menu to show up when you right click.
what about the one where they changed tray icons so they always get added to the taskbar as hidden so you have to manually go into the actual settings page to uncheck 'hidden' on every single new app that gets added one by one as they install themselves? and there's no setting except for another registry tweak someone found to disable this behaviour and restore them to just adding to the bar as un-hidden like normal behaviour
Failing to copy has been around since Vista, it’s just much more frequent on modern Windows because of all the background processes and the general decline in operating system quality. MacOS also now has this issue starting with Big Sur, iOS has this issue now since at least 12 and Android has had it since 2.x. The only consistent copy paste is in older OSes, *NIX and Haiku
Windows 11 is what finally drove me to Linux full time.
Yes, there's software I can't run on it. Yes, I have to jump to Windows occasionally for it. But for the 95% of things I can run, my games, enough image editing stuffs to get by, all the stuff I do on the web, Mint does this utterly phenomenal thing: it just presents my applications and then just... doesn't bother me.
Linux does its absolute best to facilitate getting me up and running, and then just leaves me alone, and I didn't realize just how much I was going to end up loving it for that.
Even with the occasional program needing a bit of extra setup, it's worth spending the 30 minutes to an hour occasionally for the hours I don't spend dealing with Windows, because it's the difference between sometimes needing to do some extra work for an OS that wants to be good to you, and fighting an OS that actively does everything it can to get in your way.
“and then just leaves me alone, and I didn't realize just how much I was going to end up loving it for that.”
That part sounds like a fantasy world to me 😄 My windows 11 Pro seems to go out of its way to be high maintenance and constantly waste my time with jank and restarts. It’s comical that MS still forces so many required restarts for patches and its core file explorer can’t even retain prior opened tabs on restart. Completely laughable but then equally depressing.
Same, but I'm using Kubuntu (KDE Plasma)
This is the way to go imo. One needn't have to do everything in Linux for it to be a viable opt-out for most/many tasks. People aren't changing because "I need XYZ app and doesn't work in Linux". But dual boot, and dump Win for the things you can do elsewhere.
Same here, Mint was also my choice. I was fed up when back in June they started making OneDrive an Opt Out feature. I just thought it's never going to stop, the control of my own computer just slipping away more and more.
Steam Deck was a big part of giving me confidence at how good proton was.I have switched my daily usage and gaming over to Linux now since July 2024, so 5 months at the time of writing this, and I'm not going back. I still have my windows 10 install as a dual boot for a couple of necessities like Photoshop, but it's living on a 512gb SSD and that's all that Windows has on my machine now. The other ~7TB of storage has been converted over for use with Linux.
In the last couple of weeks I've finished Titanfall 2 (through EA App on Lutris), Plague Tale Innocence and Halo 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the Masterchief Collection. It's just doing everything I want and I've been gobsmacked at how easy things have been.
@@AthanImmortal the Steam Deck was a confidence booster for me, as well.
There are things I wish worked, like the Affinity 2 suite, but it's not a huge list of things. Games work almost immediately. I bought Mechwarrior 5 Clans almost the day it came out and had no issues.
I have my criticisms of Linux, both in its present state and its community and direction. It still acts like an enthusiast DIY OS rather than a polished pick-up-and-play-with product too much, and too much of development across Linux is geared towards the "BTW I use Arch" crowd rather than trying to push it more into a mainstream direction with modern UX sensibilities that it might see it pick up real market share from normal people and gain the level of resources it needs to get a Windows or MacOS level of refinement...
But when considering the alternatives, MacOS' absolute Rube Goldberg setup and "Consumers don't know what they want - we tell them what they want" attitude, or Windows just trying to become a giant sales platform to push live services and collect data... Linux developers are at least trying to give back control and act on behalf of the user, and while not perfect, it's a better mindset and the end product reflects that.
Linux has its pains, but they're so much smaller and I'm glad it's my OS 85% of the time.
I hate when you're trying delete a file and Windows tells you it can't because it's being used by another program, but it doesn't tell you what that program is. Clearly it knows, but it just doesn't bother to tell you so you can't go shut it down. This has been a problem with Windows for several generations, at least, and you'd think they'd have fixed it by now.
And that's why Sysinternals Process Explorer has been a requirement for literally decades. Even though Process Explorer is free, there's also an open source tool called Process Hacker, if one is into FOSS.
It is fixed actually. Install Microsoft Powertoys. It has a feature that tells that
If even Fluttershy hates windows 11 it's because there's a big problem Microsoft 🚨
Install PowerTools. But yes, you are indeed correct, but default it doesn’t.
Microsoft is so busy shoving malware or just bad software down our throats and pushing it on us that they have neglected to build an operating system. Basic OS features don’t work or don’t get the attention they deserve.
It’s hard to find files, hard to manage your applications, hard to run your applications quickly, hard to manage your disks, etc.
That crash on shutdown is having a wireless Xbox controller connected. It's ridiculous.
Oh Sh!t, is THAT was it is? I've been having that issue ever since getting my new PC around a year ago, which has Windows 11 Pro. It has a 14700K. I'd noted, so far, that it only produces this error on shutdown after playing a game. At first it seemed to be after using the Xbox app to play Gamepass, but then it started doing it on some Steam games. I'd started getting concerned that it was a sign my 14700K was failing. I DO use an Xbox wireless gamepad for some games, like third person, and of course I use a Mouse and Keyboard for games like FPS. Damn, that must be it. I'd tried noticing if it was games that hit my CPU or GPU hard. It must be that wireless controller being connected. I'll pay attention to that, next time I see the error. Thanks for your post.
@MightyZarquon yea try it with the controller off and not connected and see what happens. For me it seems like the controller is the issue. Or specifically, a problem with a MS game service that's running when you have a controller connected.
@@RichardWebster85 Even wired, and it also doesn't need to be connected at the time of shutdown, only to be connected at some point since last boot.
Well I never! Is that what it is??! That has annoyed me in forever!
Is that with the Xbox wireless adapter too? Coz mine never crashes on shut down. Only COD has given me Direct X crashes recently.
I have had zero issues with Windows 11 since moving to Linux.
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Absolute legend!
Now you have issue with linux.
@@deathtrooper2048 and which distro of linux do I have an issue with?
Exactly. I have many to choose from.
@steveh8658 You can always go back to windows 10.
I gave up on windows and went to pop_os and the difference is night and day. Linux isn't constantly nagging me about updates or trying to get me to spend more money. It just works. 99% of my games work and any of them that don't I've just stopped playing. My rtx 3070 has no issues. I genuinely think Linux is the future for x86 gaming. Valve is always ahead of the curve and I trust them more than any other company. They wouldn't be investing all of this time and money outside of windows if they didn't think the same.
Pop OS! and Lutris/Steam just seem to work for me too. I'm still testing, but the installation on a 4-year-old laptop went swimmingly well and the OS just recognized the model of the laptop and everything works as intended. I'm trying the same with my desktop, but a PCIe sound card doesn't have the options I'm used to in Windows, so I'm hunting for a solution to that - but that's the only road-block. Love the modern Linux distros.
I'm a firm denier of The Year of The Linux Desktop™ as someone who has run it for close to two decades now, but dear God having had to use Windows for work, it's _sooo opaque._ Like, if you know *exactly* what registry edits you need to do and how to track down issues, you realize that 10-15% of the dev team were made of geniuses. But then you realize that the remaining 85-90% are either yes men, middle managers, and/or sociopaths.
I frankly can't wait to get some additional storage and nuke my Win10 install from the bad times.
@@EbonySaints next time use an AI model to rewrite your comments. You could have the IQ of Einstein but your writing skills are like a polished turd.
I switched to Pop! OS and used it with KDE for about 8 months back when Windows 11 was first announced. Like you, I was sacrificing something to switch to Linux: some of my gaming. Sure, I was also avoiding most of the negative things about Windows, but those things never _noticeably_ impacted my user experience. So it just felt like a sacrifice. As soon as I realized this, I switched back. I hope Linux will one day be able to give me the same gaming experience I can get on Windows. As soon as they do, I'll most likely leave Windows forever.
"Linux isn't constantly nagging me about updates or trying to get me to spend more money."
Pop OS! isn't, not "Linux", and that's part of the Linux problem. Windows has a few supported versions, whereas Linux has countless distros making development unprofitable. One of Linux's greatest strengths is also its greatest weakness.
Windows 11 causing Ubisoft games to crash is goated feature, best OS out there.
Sorting a large folder in Windows still takes a fucking eternity. Maybe they should work on that instead of another 10 AI gimmicks that nobody asked for and just are just a distraction.
Micro$hit's Windows objectives have gone from pleasing the users (if at all that was an objective) to pleasing shareholders by adding fancy sounding terms while actually doing nothing.
Yep. I've got folders with lots of large images that I work on. It doesn't seem to retain the thumbnail cache between boots, and it takes forever to put the images in the correct order the first time I access a folder after a reboot. That's if it does put them in order because sometime it just seems to go "nah, can't be bothered with this".
Another problem: fairly frequently I'll click on a folder only to be told "this folder is empty". It's not. I go back out and back in and the files appear.
File Explorer just seems to be a mess these days. I appreciate the tabbed interface that they added, but I swear that every update makes the thing perform worse.
This!
The fact that a file browser of all things freezes at all in this day and age is just unforgivable. I'm dual booting Linux and it just doesn't happen there. The desktop environment I'm using takes about 300MB of my memory and THAT'S IT - and that's with a lot going on. But there's no crazy indexing processing running in the background I didn't ask for. No "misc system processes" that run at random intervals. We need more software and driver support on Linux, Windows is a sinking ship.
Right? My fans don't decide to randomly spool up while idling because some random process is starting and stopping in the background.
The file browser is kinda explainable (though, should have been fixed before ever going out).
Windows has a “shell” just like Linux, you can get alternative shells like ClassicShell and such.
Prior to Windows 11, Windows used the same shell environment but with a different “skin” over the top. The last time they had a big shift like that was in Windows Vista with Aero and Windows 8 with Metro.
This is why you see so many old looking Windows dialogs and such, because the shell is practically the same just reskinned.
Since just before the launch of Windows 10, they’ve been doing a rewrite of the entire shell environment and the applications on top of that to account for multitasking and multimonitor setups that weren’t as common the last time the shell got rewritten.
For example, the new file explorer has tabs which just weren’t possible on the old shell window they used. Whilst that sounds trivial, it was possible with third party applications, but it was effectively opening a brand new file handle to manage it. The new shell uses one file handle and switches it back and forth when you’re moving through tabs, this reduces I/O usage.
You can see this transition in development yourself, the right click context menu for example has the “show more options” section to open up the “old” shell menu.
The problem mainly stems from their lack of testing and QA, they are risking a whole lot of customers by doing this “test in prod” setup. As a result, basic bugs like renaming a file and such can break your functionality.
However, I just wanted to say that the issues are explainable in some way. They’re just not justifiable for a company as big as Microsoft.
It’s amazing that for how hard Microsoft pushes async in C#, the Windows team seems to have never heard of doing things asynchronously. Explorer’s UI thread should never be blocked, but they block it all the time. Anytime Explorer has to wait for something, you have to wait.
I also think there needs to be a consolidation of Linux OS's where there's one that "just works" for most default users. Moving to Linux for most is still not reasonable because of it still requiring silly shit. That's not me saying Linux doesn't have value, but unfortunately for the average joe/jane, it's still got some minor nuisances that make it hard for people to switch. I think Ubuntu is the default go-to per communities, but it's still got some issues with drivers, especially for gamers, last I heard. That said, I'm heavily considering switching over I just haven't gotten the energy to mull through the mountain of OS options, yet.
Windows 98: It (mostly) works
Windows ME: It (mostly) doesn't work
Windows XP: It's fixed
Windows Vista: It's broken
Windows 7: It's fixed
Windows 8: It's broken
Windows 10: It's fixed
Windows 11: It's broken
...Repeat forever.
Correction:
95: It's broken
98 SE: It's fixed
Linux: fixed. :)
Windows NT4- it works
Windows 2000 - it works
@@InternetsDown Better yet, GEOS (8-bit operating system) worked, and it was simple then. :)
More ture of a statement then you probably actually realize xD haha
Between Windows 11 and the stutter problems with Unreal Engine 5, games are feeling worse from a technical perspective than a few years ago with previous iterations.
Agreed
Yeah, and more and more games are coded with that stutter engine. Kinda annoying.
Just finished Stalker 2 and I had to restart the game every hour because my fps went from 120+fps to 20 fps for no reason.
someone out there should create a mod of "windows 10: the last version of window edition"
at this rate, all of those "security updates" won't make your pc more secure,
it's more like a backdoor for windows to inject ads and farming data from users
@@sizablekoala6879 The shader compelation stutter also happens under Windows 10, it is a UE5 general problem 🤷♂️
I'm gonna be incredibly frank, this might be the final straw that gets people to abandon Microsoft, i swapped to Linux Mint and Nobara and honestly had a great experience so far, soon the last Windows PC will have left my household, and like half a decade ago, i thought this would never become a reality, but here we are
If you don't use Adobe software, and don't play games with intrusive anticheat, you'll likely be completely fine tbh
"Problems with testing."
Actually the problem is... They DON'T DO any testing, a lot of companies do not do ANY testing, it is viewed as an expense.
"Test it on the consumer, they will be nice and wait for us to fix it" is the new attitude.
Banana principle 😏
Let’s hope Valve finally release SteamOS in a good state. Competition is good.
I want it too, but how much will NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel support it for drivers? How many studios will move away from DirectX, DXVK will only take us so far, and kernel level anti cheat is still an issue with Proton as well.
@@General_M Its a Linux distro based on Arch so any fixes for Linux will be merged for SteamOS.
The cold and hard truth is that as long as anti-cheat solutions keep treating Linux as a second-class citizen, SteamOS won't mater at all, regardless of how good it turns out...
@ yes I know and that doesn’t answer any of my concerns.
Let's hope I can do more than gaming on Linux based OS soon! Unfortunately wine and proton aren't very suited for production softwares, and that forces me to keep a Windows installation.
2:15 the idea that the Windows team even has QA testers is laughable. They literally just release things in rings, then wait for people to tell them what is broken. “Testing” as an employee discipline within Engineering at Microsoft was removed many years ago.
I know right?! I remember during a COVID lockdown, a windows update broke the built in VPN functionality which my company was relying on! I had to waste time showing people how to downgrade because the bug remained in for MONTHS!
It also goes to show these guys have NOT been paying attention to news regarding Windows for the past decade or so. Microsoft fired most of their QA staff prior to the launch of Windows 10, and expected the "Customer Experience" programs and giving more work to the developers to do testing as substitutes for that to save some money. The result? An extremely buggy launch for Windows 10, plagued with unwanted upgrade processes when users woke up the next day, to boot loops and failed upgrade installations, and even nonstop BSODs because god forbid you bought and used the wrong SSD.
Microsoft fired most of their QA department back when the Windows Insider Program became a thing with the release of Windows 10. It was in all the big news outlets back in the day, I don't know how so many of big tech tubers have missed out on that.
I remember upgrading to Windows 10 and my laptop would get bluescreens almost every day. It eventually got less frequent but it took about 3 years before it was as stable as Windows 8.1
I tried to get a randomly suspended Google Business listing reinstated a few months ago and, while trying to get support for it, I came to the conclusion that Google doesn't employ anyone any more, it's just one giant AI. I see no reason why Microsoft would be any different.
In the past I have measured the progress on the speeds of my new computers by clicking on the Windows explorer to see how fast it opens. With my Win7 PC, it was finally instant. After upgrading to a new PC with Win10 and now 11, the ecplorer opens way slower. That is a basic functionality. It is embarrassing.
Preach! It’s infuriating and embarrassing. AI and cloud and fancy buzzwords but hey let’s go backwards on basic functionality
The speed of Windows Explorer is much improved with the 24H2 update.
@FrankBailey-mg9uo Great if that is the case for you, I cannot feel a difference. At the very least it is still way slower than on Win7.
N they were successful in converting one long time windows user to switch to Fedora.. 😊
@@Slytzel I meant File Explorer. Very first thing I did after the 24H2 upgrade was pop open File Explorer and start moving thru the filesystem. It was significantly faster. That alone makes it a worthy upgrade for me.
The "let's spin up all removable drives, and read all network shares before you may continue" thing is truly a killer. It's been there since forever and looks like it will stay that way
The Mac has the spin up issue for media drives in Finder too. But 8 don't think it does it from KODI networking if it's loading a SSD so I mostly blame Finder, which is ancient and gets no love. Windows, however is a behemoth and turning into a giant advertising schlock OS. It's a shame Linux doesn't get more commercial software outside of ChromeOS and Android. The Linux community having a half dozen or more competing standards has a lot to do with that, unfortunately. It seems too much freedom among too few users means little support.
The change from "My Computer" to "This PC" speaks volumes.
Library / Schools / Businesses: This is not your PC, this is THIS PC I mean ours.
Consumers with multiple users set up: Dad, is this My Computer or This PC?
Dad: Well, it is actually My Computer since I bought it; You are just another user of This PC.
The whole "My computer" " My Control Panel" etc thing was childish beyond belief, how can anyone take that seriously.
I'd say it would be My Mistake to even consider that Fisher Price OS.
*They don't want you to own your computer anymore.*
@disklamer I hate you
@@DanielNouser-ti8ro And a merry christmas to you too! What's eating you
Laptops also have major issue with randomly failing to sleep and laptops keep running in backpacks like a furnace. This hasn’t been resolved for years now.
A basic simple S3 suspend to ram function was replaced by smart connected sleep, but no one asked Microsoft for that feature and no way to opt out and properly suspend to ram like the old days.
This also affects handheld gaming PCs
Ah yes my Legion Go has more trouble sleeping than I do. I just never put it to sleep if it's going to the case, just shut it down.
My 2021 Zephyrus G14 has had terrible issues with this in both 10 and 11. It works finr on Ubuntu. The issue is bad enough that it has gotten so hot the LCD is permanently damaged.
The only solution I have found in Windows is to set it to hibernate after 8 minutes. This works but I suspect it is hard on my SSD and is generally just stupid. Why can't it "just work"?
You can hibernate (by enabling that option) but that adds more issues. If hibernate interferes with windows update, you better hope you have your daily backups at hand.
@@dcf8978 My colleague's Zephyrus G14 2023 have the same sleep issue.
My Zephyrus G16 2024 have also the same sleep issue. :/
Lenovo Legion Go also had similar issue.
If Microsoft offers a way to turn off the smart sleep and suspend to RAM like old S3.
I don't want my apps to keep running in background to receive notifications and updates.
A computer is neither a phone nor a tablet. why force everyone to do that ?!
@@bassemmohsen8405 "A computer is neither a phone nor a tablet. why force everyone to do that ?!"
Because sadly, on that front, Apple and Microsoft are alike : they know better than you how you should use your stuff and thay'll make sure you know it.
On another note, maybe I'm missing something, but I do not see the point of Sleep state nowadays. As long as the OS is not installed on spinning rust, a cold boot is still VERY fast (assuming you don't have 10 gazillion malwares starting at logon, (wich, sure, for a lot of people, is entirely possible).
Obviously, Hibernation with "network on" cause wayyyy bigger issues than the ones it solves...the few times it works...
The classic Hibernation, with no network BS seems the best solution, as no matter what, WU will find a way to F you up anyway.
And they wonder why a lot of us still on Windows 10 aren't just jumping on this "free upgrade" to Windows 11 even if our PCs pass the hardware requirements.
Once W12 is out you'll be singing the same songs about W11, you people do this shit every time a new Windows is out. How's your W7 holdout going?
@yarost12 i was agreeing with this, until i encountered all the windows 11 errors, windows 11 is honestly an abomination right now, i have been thinking of going back to 10 and up until recently i almost always supported a new windows.
@@anthonyrizzo9043 W10 will only be viable for another few months. After that it should only be run in a VM protected from the internet. Happily, you can easily do this in Linux!
@@yarost12Some people are young & won’t stand for Microsoft’s shitty OS, we want change
@@yarost12 Never held out on 7, got 10 when it surpassed it. Downloaded Windows 11, instant issues, horrible right click menu, constant bugs with usb, among other issues.
The issue Rich was describing is that Windows will try to guess the contents of all folders in the folder you're entering into so it can generate appropriate thumbnails (even if you're on detail view). There's a registry setting for this under:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified"
Ok. But WHY does a consumer need to fix things like this? Just no.
@GreenStorm01 Not saying I like that consumers need to fix Microsoft's bugs, just pointing out the root cause of that specific issue and how to fix it if Rich (or others) want to
To clarify, would I need to create a new String Value called FolderType, and make its value NotSpecified ? Or something else?
@@niveketihw1897 Yep you'd make a new key with a string value of "NotSpecified" without quotes
@@hunterap23 Excellent, added to two machines, will reboot when I can and see if this addresses that laggy folder behavior. Cheers!
I wish Microsoft would go back to Windows 7 and make minimal changes aside from adding security and driver updates, Auto HDR and refining Windows media centre for living room TVs
8:55 Rich's problem is because the media player is indexing ALL of your storage media, regardless of internal or external com ports. That way, your library will be fully synced when the program is opened. Essentially, it's just looking for new media files that it doesn't already have a directory link to.
I haven't noticed. I switched to Linux when Recall was announced
Well that was pretty recent...
its easy if you dont play online multiplayer games. but for some of us we lose access to our favorite games.
@@asrr62 Hunt Showdown works just fine. So does Payday 3, Payday 2, Crime Boss: Rockay City, Rocket League, etc. If they need kernel level anticheat so badly that they're willing to block Linux with it, then I don't need to play it. My Steam library has over 500 games in it. I can find something else to play.
@@asrr62 Depends on which ones. Blizzard games run fine (Overwatch, WoW, SC2, etc...) Valve games, of course, are fine (CS2, Dota2). If those were your main multiplayer games you could switch today and never notice a problem. OW2 runs better on Linux on my machine than on W11 anyway.
But if you play LoL, Apex, Destiny2, etc.... Then yeah, you're going to be out of luck.
I'm happy for all of you that made the switched, but "switch to Linux" is just not a viable alternative for 90% percent of Windows users, especially gamers. Yes, there are lots of workarounds and settings you can tweak but an equal amount of "wtf"/nonsensical errors that you encounter just doing everyday things.
8:40 I too hate how explorer locks up and waits for all drives to get ready.
I have a smb share on the same metal as my windows VM... it straight up won't open Explorer because of some status thing.
@@bobthemagicmoose Do you clear explorer history?
It's completely ridiculous and infuriating
What locks up, I don't get any
Love how when i play a game in HDR, then exit, my screen is dimmer. I then have to toggle HDR off and back on. Why is HDR so hard to figure out?..
Duh, because it's High Dynamic Range, not Sober Dynamic Range.
I only went to Windows 11 for the HDR calibration app
I had that happen to me while playing Minecraft (Java), the problem was Fullscreen mode, with a borderless window mod it works fine ever since
@@fcukugimmeausername Gee I feel like a goof; I always thought SDR meant Standard Dynamic Range.
HDR is in the works on Linux for years now, probably getting usable on desktop next year. The problem with it is that you need to compose all SDR content together with HDR content if necessary. For this you basically need to guess a transform function or get the user to manually configure that for each application.
It would be way easier to implement if it only activated for fullscreen HDR content and automatically disabled afterwards.
I concur with John's sentiments regarding HDD's. I repair PC's and occasionally involves trying to remove data from old HDD's. If I attach a drive to my caddy that's having issues, it will completely lock the whole machine until I either disconnect the caddy or turn it off.
Unfortunately the 'problem' is not software related but at the underlying storage level. The computer has to wait until the drive has either spun up or timed out.
It is a software problem the moment I right click something on desktop, that has absolutely nothing to do with another drive, and the system locks up until it spins up. Also I have NEVER seen this happening on a Linux install.
It is most definitely a software problem.
Tip: Change to a USB port that runs a older USB standard.
Also, some drive adapters work better on defective drives, which is why I save all my old hard drive adapters.
That's all the experience I can give you without a bill.
I've used Linux Mint for a decade, and I do think more users will switch to Linux, but I think a massive number of people will buy a new Macbook instead of use Windows11. I've gotten most of my family using Linux, including grandparents, mainly because they don't do anything that would require a Windows OS. Most people only use a computer to use the internet, and Microsoft has made that simple process a nightmare.
Macbooks don't offer you gaming though. Would be a very stupid choice over Linux that gives you +80% compatibility with Windows games right away.
@@thejackimonster9689 If you don't game and instead use the internet and do photo and video editing, then Mac is the way to go. The vast majority of people who use PC's don't use it for gaming.
@@OutLanderUSN But which person is watching a video of people complaining about gaming issues on Windows and decides to switch towards MacOS where gaming is a massively bigger shit show than on Windows 11?
It's a complete non-solution for the main audience here. Who cares that it might work for people that don't play games?
Most of the people who don't do that would be fine with a cheaper Chromebook or only a smartphone/tablet anyway. Most people are certainly not content creators and even then, many of them can do that via a tablet or phone these days.
@@thejackimonster9689 Which gamers are actively switching to MacOS? They're probably the only group that actively researches hardware and software and go out of their way to determine the best move, and none of them are switching to Mac, as we all know that Mac is in a much worse spot for gaming than anything else.
The post you responded to initially didn't even bring up gaming as a reason for switching; YOU made it about gaming when it wasn't about that in the first place.
And the video we're talking under doesn't have anything directly to do with gaming either, but rather issues that affect *EVERY* Windows user, including content creators and internet surfers. Who are more likely to switch to Mac because apart from Windows, it's what they know as relatively decent.
Things like this have pushed me to give up on PC gaming. I also work in IT, and the last thing I want to do at night is troubleshoot my own system after doing it all day (plus I get paid nothing for my own troubleshooting!). I never thought I’d think like that before I started working in the industry, but soon after starting I barely used my PC in my free time. I love my job, but also like to switch off at 5pm. These days I have more fun with consoles and collecting physical games.
The Series X and PS5 are great consoles, hardware wise. They're fast, well made, and have a (relatively) small form factor compared to a PC tower. The suite of games on them is extremely disappointing and limited, but I think they are really good consoles. I've got a PC now but the Series X was a great system for me in 2020 when I couldn't afford a PC.
Having a simple, efficient, and reliable system is nice. I still have my Series X, and it will serve as my living room blu-ray player until it dies. I may still play the occasional game on it if I have someone over.
That, and particularly from a AAA game perspective, there are virtually no ports to pc that perform WELL for the hardware they're on. There are still a wealth of games that simply won't or can't be ported to console, like certain game designs and/or control schemes just don't translate to console well enough to be worth playing, let alone developing. Also plenty of indie titles and lower budget ones. But anything within the space of AAA games is just going to perform far better for console and be more stable, because the gaming market is mostly for consoles in that regard, and they genuinely couldn't care beyond the point of a pc port simply existing. Proper optimization for pc? Anti-cheat that works? Botting? Well, you won't have to deal with that on console (at least not in remotely the same degree).
Join the club OP. I am in IT since early 90s and I think exactly like you! I use Windows and Linux as my daily drivers, but I am seriously considering going to MacOs since their Mac Mini M4 launch is showing a 'tour de force' of what a tiny machine can produce at very low wattage and space.
give Linux a try if you are into single player games. everything without a anti cheat is working in Linux right now. and even some anti-cheats like EAC do work in linux.
is literally only some of the competitive games that don't
then pick a long term release distro like Kubuntu or Mint, if you try and everything works(and most likely it will) then you set. then you don't actually need to do anything on that machine for a long time.
Spot on. As a software engineer, nothing tempts me to sit at a desk gaming on PC after work. If I do game, I much prefer to sit on my sofa, switch on the Series X, and within 30 seconds I'm gaming on my OLED with no issues.
I've been on Linux for the last 6 months and honestly, I do not miss windows at all, hopefully SteamOS brings all the features I'm missing from Windows such as a proper HDR implementation as Valve did on the Steam Deck OLED, other than that I'm good.
I am mostly all linux at this point, i have a second drive with w10 that kinda just exists whenever i want to play certain unsupported games with my significant other
About 20 years exclusive on Linux for me... Nowadays, Steam serves me well for all my games. I don't really go for AAA games and indie and AA games are generally better to play anyway.
@@paulsmith8289 Shit i just switched and even AAA games are better.
@@cacomeat7385 Yeah I have an SSD with Win11 for the just in cases lol, all the games that I've played this year all worked out of the box on Ubuntu, in fact my friend has better hardware than I do and according to him Black Myth was stuttering on his 4090 but it was on my 3080ti, sure I did lower some of the most demanding features but I had no stuttering , and framerate was great.
HDR already works on windows, which distro are you using??
Yep, I'm glad I'm still on Windows 10. These kinds of issues in an OS are unacceptable, and that's ignoring Microsoft's obvious attempts to shove ads in everyone's face, or data mine the shit out of us.
@@Carrion2 And options. If one distro doesn't work for you, there is always another. When that doesn't work for you, there is always another. Six-months later when that one program you need won't run, there is always another.
@@Carrion2 It's getting closer. Once I can get more than 75% of my games playble in Linux I will likely start making that leap. Until then... I still use Winders 10 and 7. I am definitely looking forward to Linux finally catching up to modern gaming systems. And sure... I know it's not entirely their fault as the mfg's don't product reliable drivers but a large portion of the linux echosphere is fully of toxic neckbeards too.
oh man I almost switched to wins 11, glad I didn't
and plenty of room to fix compatibility issues @@Carrion2
@@Carrion2 How's the language support on Linux nowadays? I need to switch between English, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese on the regular so poor language support is a deal breaker (Win 10 is good but some improvements are still possible; Win 11 is a regression in usability).
Windows is decades of bloat compounding
It's the end of December 2024, and we just returned two brand new PCs with 4070 GPUs (total worth about $5,000) because of Windows 11. OneDrive literally moved all of my wife's files to the cloud the very instant she moved them onto the PC without asking. This after making her create a Microsoft account. How is this not data theft? Even worse, there was no option to create a local user without going into the command line. Once we did that, the resultant local user profile became slower than ditch water. Even worse, 11's local user profile did not query for the language and left behind all of the entire world's Office 365 language packs, which somehow could not be deleted. As for OneDrive, every time we uninstalled it, it would reinstall itself an hour later. We finally gave up.
Switching to Linux has been the best decisions I have ever made.
Literally just made the switch to Mint cinnamon today, I'm hoping, was a lil disappointed when I found a bunch of games don't work, but I think just need proton or whatever
In Steam there's a per game option to enable proton, current stable is version 9.
If you have non Steam games use Lutris it setups everything for you.
@@Trikenut012I use Bazzite. Proton works great
@@Trikenut012tag me if you need more support on that front
@@Trikenut012install steam, Lutris and perhaps proton-ge...
Glad I don't bother with Windows 11, and never want to unless I'm forced.
Once I'm forced, then Linux & MacOS will become primary OSs.
What a mess, Microsoft.
@@TechRyze I am not switching to 11 no matter how forced I am tbh
I switched to MacOS for daily use, never been happier
I'm a bit in trouble, because the applications i need for my engineering work are almost all exclusive to Windows. Some are macOS, but i don't like the hardware. I have a 19" stacked workstation and not a small box with soldered on miniature storage and not enough beef for running a multi GPU Hypervisor.
PR dept of m$, "you will comply"
ME: Get away from me you Bit.........
Well, especially for gaming it's not really like MacOS would be a reasonable choice. Except you want to loose access to 80% of your games library.
Official modern Steam OS for desktop cannot come soon enough. (Bazzite is close)
@@AQDuck Except that an immutable distro like say Bazzite makes more sense for a noob user. Much less chance of breaking everything and ending up in a mess. SteamOS being immutable is a positive for someone that has no clue how Linux works.
@@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418 I tried Bazzite and can't get sound to work over HDMI. Hoping that an official Steam OS release would help.
I'm liking bazzite. I'm using it on my htpc with game mode as well as gnome desktop version.
@@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418 Actually _bigger_ chance of breaking it if you do anything at all on a system level or installing a package outside of Flatpak.
There are immutable distros that are designed for desktop use that have thought of that. SteamOS, Bazzite, etc. are _not._
@@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418 alternatively using Pop!_OS with Timeshift and it's built in Refresh function gives a balance been changeability and reliability.
I did start recommending Immutable/Atomic because of my positive experiences with Fedora Kinoite but in retrospect it's only because I've become conversant with Toolbox-bare metal crossover, which is a power-user skill Id say.
0:30 and nothing of value was lost
So you are against Stop Kiling Games?
@@soundspark I'd rather live in a world with modern Ubishit games being long gone
@GoodlyPenguin In that case I hope you aren't constantly bleating about your "free speech" rights being violated.
@soundspark what are you yapping about. Also, it's a meme, stop taking it seriously, L.
I have an excel sheet at work that started crashing after Windows 11 update. It works fine until I copy and paste data within the sheet. It freezes and then begins not responding.
Install some flavor of OpenOffice (LibreOffice is your best bet). It does everything MS Office does and then some. I have used it to open spreadsheets that Excel didn't know what to do with.
Simple fix for the Ubisoft issue
Don't buy Ubisoft games.
✨️piracy✨️
Sounds comfy
Instructions unclear. Bought all Ubisoft games. Now I have every quadruple-A games ever made.
Yup! Anything Ubisoft gets his hands on becomes a mess of a game (HOMM comes to mind here).
It's funny how Ubisoft games no longer work on Windows or Linux anymore (for different reasons, obviously).
Between advertisements, OneDrive enabling itself and relocating my files, restarting sound drivers, taking forever to start in safe mode, search finding anything but what I’m looking for, taskbar icons disappearing, HDR issues, the file issues that were referenced in this video.. I’m just gonna stop there I just want anything but windows at this point. I have a high end system and it’s dedicated to gaming and occasional web browsing. SteamOS is going to be perfect when it’s ready. I don’t need all the bloat that comes with windows.. and if I do want bloat I can install that myself
SteamOS is NOT a desktop distro and if you are going for it, you'll just end up back on Windows within a month.
EndeavourOS is based on Arch, _actually up-to-date,_ and not a locked down system. It's meant for desktop use and will give you BETTER gaming performance.
@@AQDuckendeavouros have good compatibility?
@@AQDuckAye, I switched to Endeavour OS about 6months ago. Once I found all the right software that was apples to apples on what I used in Win 10, everything else has been a breeze. About the only minor complaints is the pita to setup auto-mount drives on boot, discord screen sharing and wine.
Like anything Linux, it's a learning curve but once you get setup it's simple and effective.
I still have dual boot with Windows 10 but I've probably used it twice tops.
@@TodHunterGD KDE's partition manager works great for auto mounting drives, never had to use terminal for it.
And screen sharing now works _mostly_ flawlessly with audio in Discord Canary (probably next Discord stable update)
@@kenshii9d147 Way better than SteamOS since it's _basically_ Arch with some extra GUI tools and the hard part already set up.
It gets updates when Arch gets them and not a year later like Steam deck.
I switched to Linux, it's not for everyone, but suits me just fine. Even for gaming.
If I was just gaining I would have switched years ago
I tried Linux Mint a couple of months ago - with absolutely ZERO prior experience. Frankly was shocked how intuitive and most importantly non-combative it felt. Didn't have to use the terminal once.
@@mungojerrie86 I used to work at a web host and learned Linux on the job. I was comfortable with the command line but found the GUI a bit lacking. Since then it's improved so much, it's better than Windows. That's all the main distros too, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch and Mint I've tried. I have a HTPC that runs bazzite.
@@mungojerrie86As someone who has used the terminal and Linux for a long time, I would suggest taking the time and getting comfortable with some basic commands if nothing else. You'd be surprised at what you can do and how fast you can get it done.
And, God forbid, if/when something does break, being familiar with how to edit files in the terminal, how to connect to the network, how to download, or just how to navigate, will save you a lot of time and frustration later on. Because while Linux can break, since it's a community of people who do leg work, 90% of the trivial problems have a easily available solution.
Plus, you can use fortune >> cowsay, neofetch (or whatever, if anything, replaced it) and any number of Matrix ripoff commands and be *Hackerman!* Just don't get into tiling window managers and put on programming socks. That's too much.
i been on linux for one year now, and I'm surprised how well things work. specially games... and it actually has gotten better during last year, i literally can't remember when i had a game that didn't worked from the box in the last 6 months
I've been using Fedora KDE for a year now and really don't miss Windows at all. It's amazing having an operating system that doesn't fight me over every little thing. (Caveat: when Linux does decide to fight you, it's going to hurt.)
3:50 having recently used Windows NT 4.0 I can assure that yes, in some aspects Windows of almost 30 years ago feels much snappier in some aspects, especially folder navigation, and that's also true while using hardware of that epoch.
This extends to a lot of software too. I've still got a copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 installed. Sure, it lacks a lot of features that modern image editors have, but it's so fast. Probably faster than a modern image viewer.
I've been getting really fed up with Microsoft, I quit xbox entirely and I'm so close to switching to Linux and never going back
Do it
- Sent from my Linux
Switch, you'll be glad you did. I've been using Mint for six years and love it.
I switched over to a fork of arch a few months ago, it's been a good experience! Highly recommend at least trying a distro, you might be surprised how many just work from the start
If you're still hesitant then buy an external drive and run Linux from that to see how you go before you fully commit.
My XSX has been collecting dust since launch. I hate the clunky UI experience and I’m still bitter over how the hdmi-hec enabled on XSX screwed up all of my other hdmi-hec devices in my AVR setup. XSX was the only one that broke it. Not a cable or splitter issue. Had to reconnect and restart all other hdmi devices on the chain and haven’t had a single issue since then
My trust in MS software and basic functionality is pretty low. Win7 and Xbox 360 maybe was the pinnacle
My gut said not to upgrade to Windows 11 from 10. Glad I trusted my gut…
I felt the same way about you too...
Pretty much every crappy thing in windows 11 has been faithfully back dated into Windows 11 (except maybe co-pilot?) and support for it dies next year leaving your device vulnerable to everything going forward. So, you aren't really saving yourself from anything staying on 10.
Love the Zenigata pfp
The deeper I get into this operating system the more one realizes how much of a depressing nightmare they have created. Windows 11 is like being locked inside a cyber concentration prison camp where you get punished for trying to get free from their shackles and they set all kinds of traps to destroy your attempt to break free. One Drive, BitLocker Encryption and TPM 2.0 are the guards ordered to shoot and kill any data that tries to escape.
Just thinking about this is making my blood pressure go up.
Windows has adopted the "move fast and break things" method.
8:25 : Yes, YES ! Finally, someone is talking about that ! It grounded my gear every time it happened ! Why does File Explorer needs to wake up every drive connected to my PC before letting me access a folder wich is not on any of those fekkin drives ? It was grinding those gears so much that it was one of the main reason I dumped all those drives into a homemade NAS and called it a day. It's not a W11 problem, I'm on 10.
I once had a secondary HDD dying on 10 and THE ENTIRE MACHINE was reduced to a crawl even while I was doing nothing to access that drive. Pure insanity
To prevent other drives from waking up when accessing a specific drive in Windows, you can adjust power settings:
Power Options: Go to Control Panel > Power Options. Select your plan and click on "Change plan settings." Then, click "Change advanced power settings." Under "Hard disk," set "Turn off hard disk after" to Never.
Device Manager: Open Device Manager, locate "Universal Serial Bus Controllers," right-click on ALL USB Root Hubs and controllers, and in the Power Management tab, uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power. Do this for everything USB.
Also consider different file manager, File Explorer sucks.
So that's what it is huh ? Wow.
Gonna have to get myself a NAS then. I've been thinking about it for backups for a few years now. Might actually take te plunge.
I heard Raid10 is the thing which mean I need a 6 disk unit. (alreadu own 4x 22TB so I only need to get 2 extras).
Thanks for the info, much appreciated
@@jobjob9305 Oh don't worry the NAS will hang it up too
@@SepticFuddy How did you configure yours, regarding file access ? with SMB ? Being quite a novice in that regard, that's what I did, and my NAS never freeze my Explorer... I deactivated spindown for my spinning rust tho, I only have 6 HDDs in total, and I heard the highest likelyhood of disk failure are when said disks goes form 0 RPM.
I really long for the day where Valve can get Steam OS working on ALL platforms, namely systems with Nvidia GPUs. Nobody playing games on a PC should have to deal with Windows ever again.
nvidia GPUs DO work on linux... what you talking about?
@@khhnator SteamOS does not ship Nvidia's proprietary drivers though and I imagine Valve won't ship them with a generic ISO because they conflict with Mesa drivers on Arch. So the obvious thing to do for them is implementing an open-source driver for modern Nvidia GPUs in Mesa that might not be fully comparable feature-wise in productivity tasks but performs even in gaming. Then they can only ship Mesa drivers out of the box and 90% of all users with Nvidia GPUs won't ever need to switch drivers or deal with separate packages on SteamOS.
It's exactly what we currently see with the development of the NVK driver in Mesa and it will make SteamOS having one of the best out of the box experiences for gaming on pretty much any desktop PC. No hassle with configuration essentially.
@@thejackimonster9689 neither does windows... you just download them from nvidia site. is something everyone does
@@thejackimonster9689 Lol thank you for explaining that better than I could.
Noone should be forced to use command lines, is this an obssesion with linux users?
I built my first gaming PC last year after gaming mostly on consoles for 30 years and didn’t even bother with Windows. I have such a great experience with the Steam Deck that I just went with Linux. Couldn’t be happier!
I've been telling first time builders to skip windows entirely myself
I recently went back to Windows 10 and debloated it from day 1. Never been happier. Everything works and is snappy.
my ~7 year old pc" i5 7400 gtx 1060 3gb w10" is just so much better than my 11th gen i7 11700k with a 3050 with w11 on it..sure a few of the new games i have do run a touch smoother"they should" but it's not worth all the accompanied headache. i only upgraded for bg3, but a patch put my ol boi back in the game very playable in the 3rd act.
I also extreme debloat my Win11 24H2 and it works wonder at the cost of compatibility. Able to achieve around 900MB 54process in idle. UWP apps doesn't work but I don't use them so it's aight.
at this point you might as well just switch to Linux. it takes less effort
@@khhnator I do, I tried Nobara and CachyOS and both require quite a lot of effort for me especially installing non-steam games, games that use kernel anti cheat doesn't work in Linux. My laptop also run around 15c hotter and what more concerning is the CPU stayed at 90c during heavy load, while on Windows it usually around 70c. I also noticed both distro or I guess Linux overall doesn't work great with hybrid GPU setup(black screen watching Yt videos in Fullscreen, also there's blackscreen that keep happening after I m using these distros for a while)
Also there seems to be an issue which when you play the game for over a while there seems to be a stuttery mess happening every time I move my mouse. After several days of trying to find the solution, it seems like it related to steam overlay even with it's disabled in settings can cause some kind of overload in the background during games, it's a known bug, been a month or two.. Do you think Linux is worth it to use with all the issue that's going on?
The windows 11 issues are literally why im swapping to linux. One of you guys hit the nail on the head, i want XP back!
That media center spooling problem was something caused by Windows 7's introduction of Media Center libraries. The default libraries included a dynamic list of external drives. It would scan all drives for media when starting Media Center. Used to be you could either disable the default system media libraries, or redefine the libraries to exclude external drives. It used to be there so it could identify optical media upon startup. Or just use VLC.
Microsoft still have QA? News to me.
SteamOS is currently the only sign of a major company supporting a push for Linux into gaming. If Valve can start gaining traction with steamOS in OEM device (laptops, desktops, handhelds, etc), then we might actually be in for a good time. Here's hoping!
Copilot is causing massive slow downs. They pushed it to Win 10 and I have instantly disabled it - opening menu, taskbar arrow takes a delay to open, etc After taking odd Copilot all is back to normal. Absolute crap .
One incredible tedious thing is setting all my regular use apps to override high dpi scaling (that you cannot override globally). Then an update drops and switches back ALL the apps to the default scaling.. So I start seeing blurred apps, games not starting or crashing until I realize that setting was reverted to default 😡.
3:20 if you use a different file manager, such as Directory Opus, or XYPlorer, that slow-to-load issue goes away.
Switched to Linux a few weeks ago (Nobara) no regrets.. Games even play better. For AMD systems its prime. Stalker 2 and SH2 both much better experiences. Less stutter by a mile.
I switched six years ago to Mint and have never regretted it. I just watch some of these Windows videos sometimes for a laugh.
Nobara is great! for those reading, it's basically Fedora with some game-ready support apps/drivers installed, and I think steam out of the box. I highly back-up recommend Nobara too.
For stutters, maybe, for overall performance, Linux and even its performance/gaming focused distros are still way behind, up to 50% slower in the majority of cases compared to W10, so if you have expensive hardware, like a 4070 and up, just use W10, you're wasting performance potential, with that said, everything else is better on Linux, tough choice.
@Taldirok not true with really any of the AAA games I play. 50% is a huge difference. If we're talking nvidea yes it's still behind. AMD hardware excells on Linux. I'm running a 7800x3d and a 7900xt. No games I have that perform worse. I was on windows 10/11 for years. I know how my games performed. I had no issues with windows but I was pleasantly surprised with Nobara. I encourage you to look at some Nobara vs windows benchmarks using an AMD card. Typicaly ahead with better 1% lows
@@Taldirok th-cam.com/video/1XW00GALLxI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lzuLwcgNJ2zIk_Y7
Now you understand why people who could easily game on pc will stick to console.
When I come home from work I just want to play, not fight with my machine and hope I am getting the performance I paid for
lol sounds like a guy weighing up getting married and coming home to a nagging wife vs just staying single.
@@deanchur if everyone started single you wouldn't have Dev's that make games or deliverymen etc. that said a lot of places need to start reducing population slowly
I don't understand these comments. The majority of windows users do not need to fight their computer. You people make it sound like win11 is unusable. It might be bad, but its usable.
@@bambooexthis is linux users spreading FUD
This is why AAA game players use Windows. It works the best.
The performance you paid for is only about a hundred bucks for Windows, and the rest of the cost is your components, and peripherals.
Win11 uses Javascript for its UI. If you are using web technology to power parts of your OS you are already taking the L at that point
Gonna need proof for that. I'm calling BS.
To be fair, both MacOS and GNOME use Javascript and WebViews to render basic system components too. It's not so much the web technology that's the problem, but rather the willingness to use it to show you ads and sponsored content.
web technology has powered OSes for as long as it has existed and is not inherently problematic. the most important factors are whether the tool is able to adequately meet a need, and whether it's a "user need" or a "corporate need"
@@dial2616 what MacOS UIs are rendered in JS lmao? I call major BS on this. Microsoft has several telltales that this might be happening. Also haven't seen any evidence on Gnome and other desktop managers.
@@UncleJemima yes it is, because it's a waste of resources to interpret js code
Over the years as newer versions of Windows has appeared, I tend to just remove the network connection on the older models and just use the local programs that were specifically written for that OS, if they are still useful. Or sometimes just keep them in a local network group.🤔
I do a lot of retro computing. I fully agree with what’s said about the responsiveness of older software on hardware of the day…
IT manager here, Windows 11 is the worse and you all hit it on the head when it comes to updates breaking applications all over the place, AND all the problems of system performance...what performance?!
When Microsoft bought Bethesda, they took both QA departments and combined them. These massive companies brought these hugely important departments together, bringing the total head-count to 0.
Nah I'm just picking. Their QA departments are actually huge. Just look at the total sales and you can get an estimate of how many customers paid to be QA.
"WIndows 10 LTSC for IOT Devices" has support for another ten years. Makes your games run a million times faster.
How is this different from Win 10 Pro?
@@JTCulverhouse LTSC version don't contain the microsoft store and any of the UWP stuff (save for Settings), and are as barebones as Windows can get. No ads in your startmenu. It otherwise aligns with the Enterprise variant rather than Professional.
The new IOT moniker is just a title to discourage general use as it is intended for long running machines, but is otherwise a full version of windows.
Using this version of windows will reduce your frame times by 2 whole milliseconds and will therefore making you a better professional counter strike combatant.
@@JTCulverhouse It comes without pre-installed apps / store and only receives security updates meaning it's a build frozen in time.
IMO it's rather useless as it still comes with 90% of the bloat.
@@byteframe_primarydataloop Removing UWP apps has no impact on performance
Windows 11 LTSC exists too, but it does not run as well as 10, even on latest hardware.
I know someone who had an update delete their audio drivers and codices and crashing when I tried to install them manually. A few months later another update fixed it.
When I bought my OLED monitor, I had to go from Windows 10 to 11. The HDR in games like Red Dead 2 is drop dead gorgeous.
After the release of 24H2, Windows isn't even the best for gaming anymore. A lot of games stopped working and aren't compatible with 24h2. None of the Empress cracked games work anymore. However I am still able to run Empress games through Linux.
Windows 11 is the best advertisement for Linux
if you look at Windows 11 your see MacOS
@Stormlywing The deeper I get into this operating system the more one realizes how much of a depressing nightmare they have created. Windows 11 is like being locked inside a cyber concentration prison camp where you get punished for trying to get free from their shackles and they set all kinds of traps to destroy your attempt to break free. One Drive, BitLocker Encryption and TPM 2.0 are the guards ordered to shoot and kill any data that tries to escape.
The only reason people use Windows is because they have a government mandated monopoly. They’ve had this for thirty years and it shows no signs of relenting. They don’t seem to have competent employees anymore, they add worthless features and remove useful ones, and they force damaging updates on you if you want to use new software. I switched to Ubuntu last year and despite the many drawbacks I’m not looking back.
there’s no government mandated monopoly, ffs
true, its tiring messing about every few weeks or months bcos a forced update has landed that is mainly full of bloat or uneeded changes & can cause failures in apps that have worked fine.. i also find i have to click more times to do things i used to do in 1 or 2 clicks.. & the lack of control of what i have on my own pc is disturbing.. most bloat cannot be removed, or if u do it just re-installs on next reboot or background update, which tbh is malware habits
I've been saying this since befire 11 even launched. The preview versions were nothing but red flags to me.
Its to the point where after messing with 11 on a VM a few times and even the 24h2 update, I've decided when 10 goes EOL im going either Linux or Steam OS.
Charging $140 for a broken OS is crazy!
Steam OS can't come fast enough.
Just grab a linux distro like Nobara.
SteamOS is not gonna be drastically different from any other distro that uses KDE Plasma.
Steam OS 3.x is just another Linux distro
Launch Steam with the -tenfoot launch argument if you want their interface
Gamescope can be installed on basically every distro
There isn't and will never be an operating system that is perfectly acceptable to everyone. You're wasting your time looking for Nirvana.
Cinnamon Mint is probably the most plain and boring desktop distro and I love it.
If im not mistaken, 2:25, Microsoft does not contract qa engineers for most of its projects, it’s the responsibility of the devs to do the qa. (Which i think is a huge mistake because qa is a hole field on its own, not only making sure something “works”).
I have a random screenshot of my task manager back on Windows 7 and it has 35 processes running, currently my Win 10 machine has 101.
Not to mention the latest W11 update making my VR headset completely useless.
This here is one of the reasons I haven't updated to 11. I've heard this from multiple VR users. I enjoy playing in VR and I'm not willing to lose the ability to play VR for no reason at all.
This isn't even a bug, M$ actually went out of their way to rip Mixed Reality code out of DWM because they decided on our behalf that it's obsolete
Meanwhile on Linux Micro$oft's own VR is still supported 😂
Your own fault for buying a mixed reality device
O damm i never hear about thath! I want to get a Pimax on the future.. my sistem is W11 should i have some concern abouth thath? What are the problems than you get on VR whit W11?
@ramonzaions7522 it's just for Windows Mixed Reality Headsets, which they don't make anymore so you're fine! I ordered a psvr2 to replace my Samsung Odyssey Plus with
We all want Windows XP back.
peak windows.
I have Windows XP in a virtual machine for apps and games that Windows 10 just REFUSES to run.
Yes but it should support latest drivers/technologies.
Windows 7 was better tho
No.
@ 9:24 same thing with me but i still have a hdd in my system for movies/music and pictures always wating on the hdd to spin up to do almost anything
Feel your pain man every time I open explorer I need to wait for my HDD to spin up so freaking anoying.
have 11 and see no issues, and have had it for many months.
The "waiting for all hard drives to spool up" bug definitely predates windows 11. I have never installed 11 on my PC (so far) and that bug made me Switch to SSDs only more than 5 years ago. I'm not entirely certain if I was still on 8.1 or already on 10 at the time, but I assure you it wasn't 11!
Nobara Linux rescued me from Windows, thankfully. Performance is excellent. Do I get some issues or small annoyances sometimes? Yes, because I am still learning to properly use Linux. However it is much much better than accepting Microsoft's increasingly intrusive abuse.
It's crazy how bad Windows really is
Guess why Linux users rarely ever switch back?
@thejackimonster9689 Yeah, I've tried Linux with the Steam Deck and to be honest, it's wat better, the worse thing about Linux is that Windows has better UI, that's it.
@@SweetFlexZ Better UI? Windows? Okay, I've never heard this response in my life.
What exactly do you mean? I mean on Linux you can choose between pretty much any UI theme you like. You can pick out of a wide range of desktop environments to use.
If anything doesn't look right, you can change that essentially.
And that is why console refuses to die.
Well, both PC and console are doing quite well, the Switch 2 could break new records with it's backwards compatibility with the already popular Switch 1, and Valve seems nearing to release SteamOS to take advantage of Windows fall. They may even time the release for the End of Support for Windows 10 to maximise the amount of people jumping ship to Linux. 2025 is shaping up to be an important year for the future of gaming
The best console is the Linux console, I need to switch my xboxen to be Linux at this point
I kept using Windows 10 even though my old laptop could run 11. When it was time for me to get a new laptop a few weeks ago, I ordered it without preinstalled OS (no Windows and cheaper price = win-win). After some experimentation, I got Fedora Linux with KDE Plasma 6running well on it.
Settings changing without reason or warning is my personal worst Windows "bug"(?)
A few days ago I thought my 3 year old microphone was starting to die. I use sound passthrough (whatever that's called) so you can hear everything as if you weren't wearing headphones, but it suddenly stopped working. I didn't want to buy a new one right away, so I kept thinking, "Is it REALLY my microphone or has Windows messed it up again?"
And there it was. NOT in the sound settings, but hidden in the device manager, voice monitoring was randomly disabled.
Maybe someone in the update department at Microsoft just loves to screw people over.
Maybe Satya Nadella should take a page out of Todd Howard's book and state, "It's a next-gen OS; we really do push the technology, so you need to update your hardware." That or Nigel Tufnel's "These goes to 11".
Todd Howard: It just works.
10:14 was that a mr plinkett reference
Now I want a pizza roll.
it's so funny how much more stable a prerelease version of macOS is compared to public release of Windows
I have the latest Mac OS on my m3 pro MacBook Pro and it has several issues, not to mention much slower overall than windows 11. My 2022 G14 has never had a problem with windows 11.
@ you cappin or running the worst kind of softwares on the Mac, cause my M1 Pro still runs far better than a equivalent windows laptop, plus it has same performance when unplugged so idk how it can even be slower unless you talking about graphics
@@MapleEmpire Yet it still runs slower than a Asus g14.
@@MapleEmpire 💯 been running my life on M1 macs since 2020 and they still perform great. I recently bought a Surface Laptop 7 with the supposed M3-killer Snapdragon Elite and that shit sucks. I was building a not-so-complex C project on it and thinking it didn't take that long. When I switched to my M1 (baseline, not even Pro) MBP it just blew the Surface Laptop away building the exact same project.
@@tvandever2010 plugged and for the first 5 min until it throttles...
I went from DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win XP, Win 7, and Win 10.
I'm still using Win XP in a VM due to one program that I use on it still.
I'll be hanging onto Win 10 for as long as I can. Even if it means being offline most of the time.
Funny thing about Windows 11 sometimes holding until all connected storage devices are on when accessing a folder, the same behavior happens on my instance of Windows 10. External USB, NAS, it doesn't matter. It has to wake up each drive.