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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)
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[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I've been forced to use windows for some propriety software during uni. I got a laptop from IT with higher specs than my old one and:

  1. It runs worse than my old shitty laptop
  2. It boots up slower than my old shitty laptop
  3. The battery icon was missing from the taskbar for some ungodly reason (I had to get IT to force an update)
  4. The internet it gets is way worse than my old shitty laptop. I do not know why

So yeah I'm not using Windows 11 ever again

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah i have to use W11 for work and the brand new Dell XPS, upper mid range, they gave me compared to my 2017 i3 with linux and all this is true.

About the half the time i boot it and the network just doesn't connect. Wired or WiFi. Have to unplug the dock and reconnect it. DNS will drop for 10s at random.

There's times my laptop shows it age like i was bulk processing a load of photos, just resizing, and it took several minutes when the newer cpu was probably several seconds but that's the hardware, not the software.

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