Windows has become incredibly anti-user. I built a new PC recently. No internet because the latest version of the Windows 11 installer didn't have a realtek Wifi driver on it. This driver was present in the Windows 10 installer.
If I didn't know the work around, I would not have been able to install the OS.
Ok, so I got the OS installed, and was greeted with an OS with 4 different UI styles glued together from W7 on up. Keep in mind, the OS in its entirety has UI elements dating back to Windows 3.1.
Still no WIFI drivers which I had to hunt down and wait because the OEM's website was spittling out corrupt data for a while.
WIFI up, Windows update missed a bunch of drivers. Installed them manually.
After about 45 minutes, finally got the OS ready to install apps. Basic apps. Office, dev stuff, photo stuff. This took over an hour, what with Windows updates, and all.
I also put the latest copy of Fedora on my laptop. No internet connection needed. Typed in username, passcode. Installed in about 10 minutes. WIFI working out of the box. One reboot later, I had a fully functioning OS that came with everything I needed. 20 minutes total, perhaps.
Microsoft has completely thrown away any notion of usability while Linux is accelerating towards it.
I still can't quite wrap my head around requiring internet to install the OS while also not providing a means to access the internet via WIFI.
And then of course there are all the other issues surrounding the OS that has been talked about at length here.
Finally, Windows 11 is a buggy, slow, unresponsive mess of an OS, and it makes using Windows 10 feel like a breath of fresh air due to its comparative responsiveness and lack of bugs. Keyword is comparative. Windows 10 is still a corpulent waddling pig of a sloppily glued together OS.
Windows has become incredibly anti-user. I built a new PC recently. No internet because the latest version of the Windows 11 installer didn't have a realtek Wifi driver on it. This driver was present in the Windows 10 installer.
If I didn't know the work around, I would not have been able to install the OS.
Ok, so I got the OS installed, and was greeted with an OS with 4 different UI styles glued together from W7 on up. Keep in mind, the OS in its entirety has UI elements dating back to Windows 3.1.
Still no WIFI drivers which I had to hunt down and wait because the OEM's website was spittling out corrupt data for a while.
WIFI up, Windows update missed a bunch of drivers. Installed them manually.
After about 45 minutes, finally got the OS ready to install apps. Basic apps. Office, dev stuff, photo stuff. This took over an hour, what with Windows updates, and all.
I also put the latest copy of Fedora on my laptop. No internet connection needed. Typed in username, passcode. Installed in about 10 minutes. WIFI working out of the box. One reboot later, I had a fully functioning OS that came with everything I needed. 20 minutes total, perhaps.
Microsoft has completely thrown away any notion of usability while Linux is accelerating towards it.
I still can't quite wrap my head around requiring internet to install the OS while also not providing a means to access the internet via WIFI.
And then of course there are all the other issues surrounding the OS that has been talked about at length here.
Finally, Windows 11 is a buggy, slow, unresponsive mess of an OS, and it makes using Windows 10 feel like a breath of fresh air due to its comparative responsiveness and lack of bugs. Keyword is comparative. Windows 10 is still a corpulent waddling pig of a sloppily glued together OS.