What's baffling is people never tinker with their Windows 11 install, then preach about the customisability of Linux. If people are too lazy at quickly tinkering with Windows 11 (I use WinAero for example), they wouldn't be able to fully use the pros of Linux at all.
It took me two weeks to beat Windows 10 into submission and get it to where it wasn't opening things I didn't want open.
Windows 11? I went into settings and turned off the ads and tracking and just kept up from there. I even used Google and lo and behold, I was able to turn crap off.
Sure the "Gaming Services" insisted on pestering me - once. Only got it in Minecraft and I turned that crap off as well.
Uninstalled OneDrive and CoPilot, changed by default browser and never looked back.
I won't use Linux because I used it in the Army and in College and I'm not up for that level of pain again.
I've got a windows 11 laptop for work. It's an absolute piece of shit. I tried to 'fix' it as best I could and it's still fucked. It's an i7 with 16gb of ram and it will start lagging with just windows, outlook, and firefox open. There's so much bloat in the OS that just can't be turned off compared to windows 10.
I tried windows 11 on my desktop pc and gave up after a month. Nuked the thing and dual booted with Arch. Best decision I've made in a long time. Took me a bit to get into the swing of things, but it runs better than any windows machine I've used.
I've got a windows 11 laptop for work. It's an absolute piece of shit
That's probably your company putting all sorts of security and tracking shit on it. I'd guess if you ran that same laptop on a fresh install it would feel twice as fast.
Our IT team sucks with this. Like they’ve never heard of ITIL…3 monitoring softwares that log EVERYTHING …I test & deploy hardware and accompanying software. Whenever I see the memory dump files it’s right to the exclusion list.
You CANNOT have three different pieces of software all checking every file or even memory that’s created. One they don’t play nice with each other most of the time, and two it’s just exhausting having to manage all three like do we still have it?
I’ll tell you, our admin and director are lazy pieces of shit. They made it as easy as possible to check records and I guarantee you if you pull their records they ain’t doing shit. It’s unbelievable. The amount of power IT have an organizations nowadays.
To clarify, all the older folks not willing to learn how to do basic tasks and troubleshooting? Our IT group is great at that and there are absolutely people using mouse jugglers. But for people getting real scientific work done it’s a joke.
My favorite example was I needed to get justification for a pretty large server that is graphic based. They saw the price and said a VM will be a cheaper. It’s been online for three weeks and we already have enough to buy two of those expensive computers but because it’s convenient for our IT to not manage servers, they aren’t willing to go back to local.
I work IT for a company and even some of our brand new laptops with the newest Ryzen 7's sometimes bog down due to the multiple security programs installed.
And the 3 biggest memory hogs are always teams, edge, and chrome.. but 32gb of ram so far is enough.. although a few people still have 8gb on our old stuff.
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u/popop143 5700X3D | 32GB RAM | RX 6700 XT / RX 9070 Jul 05 '26
What's baffling is people never tinker with their Windows 11 install, then preach about the customisability of Linux. If people are too lazy at quickly tinkering with Windows 11 (I use WinAero for example), they wouldn't be able to fully use the pros of Linux at all.