Windows 11 - anyone upgraded ?

[ed_pete]

I normally would have bitten the bullet and moved up to Windows 11 but for once in my life I've decided to stay where I am for as long as I can.

I have a newish laptop and am reasonably technically competent so don't think it would be that painful but just don't see the point really. I expect I'll stay on Win10 until they stop rolling out security patches.

Anyone else tried it ?

[alex_b]

I?m trialing at work and really like it. It?s not massively different but it feels ?cleaner?, the changes are helpful and I?ve not encountered any issues. The biggest benefit I?ve seen is in window layout management, you can have multiple desktops and can snap windows to more layouts (halves, thirds, quarters and a few other options). If you hate the start button in the middle you can put it back on the left too.

[Friernlocal]

It killed my brand new Dell PC! The computer came with an advert saying it would upgrade to Windows 11 when released. I did the upgrade immediately it came out. It worked for a day. The next day it wouldn't boot, can't remember the error message, but it wouldn't load Windows. Phoned Dell tech service. Waste of time. After about 45 minutes the advisor said the main board was faulty and they would arrange a collection for repair. Luckily I'd created the recovery drive when I first started the PC when I bought it. This allowed me to uninstall the Windows 11 updated. PC worked again. Perhaps I'll try again just before the 12 months warranty expires.

[JohnL]

My old ASUS canna take Windows11 - Processor not good enough

[JohnL]

P3girl Wrote:

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> If you had Windows 10 as a native installation

> then the odds are that you will be able to upgrade

> with no problem.

>

> It is cleaner and a bit faster. Not much has

> changed except for the "Start" button area in the

> bottom left which has now become a pop up at start

> and the it minimises into the task bar after one

> click selection or click outside the pop-up.

My lovely ASUS is 10 years old (still i7 with 16GB RAM) and MS have tightened up on old processors.

its amazing a 10 year old laptop functions so well :)