New M$ strategy - bork things in Win10 and Win11 then only fix them in Win11.
I think I'll block M$ updates completely for a while.
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Never really occurred to me that they did that, but then I avoid M$ products more or less instinctively although I do have Win10 on the machine I am currently using. Looked up their range and discovered that the surface keyboard with copilot key is on offer for £400+.
I'll stick to my DAS KEYBOARD - standard QUERTY layout with sound knob and sleep button as the only non-traditional controls. I had one an age ago and then disappeared down the path of gaming keyboards etc. Unfortunately that is the road to madness when you are trying to drive several PCs with different OS's from one another. The Das Keyboard is solid German engineering and I'm sure could be used to beat a burglar to death if called upon to do so. Which is comforting.
There is absolutely nothing in Win11 which I want,
What I do not want is to have to spend an age getting used to win 11, particularly as my Win 10 system is heavily customised so that it works the way I want it to and not the way M$ says I should use it. It might be possible with a lot of work to restore Win11 to something like my current Win10 setup but at the end of that process I would have gained nothing.
When I read this sort of thing I get a warm feeling of satisfaction with my Win 10 system which will never be upgraded to 11. It soldiers on with occasional strange hiccups but nothing fatal. As for the M$ account, I don't have one. I did for a bit but it never seemed to serve a useful purpose so I nuked it.
Unfortunately, there have been a few odd glitches recently which are pushing me on towards the final full transfer to Linux.
Every time some idiot makes significant changes to the interface of something useful I have to spend time relearning how it works. I'd be quite happy to never upgrade most of my software except when genuinely new functionality was added.
At 70 plus it becomes increasingly more difficult to adapt to the constant flow of changes into stuff which really doesn't need to change.
I currently run win 10 and although I don't like it I can tolerate most of its foibles and stupidities with the use of various add-ons. However I'm in the process of migrating most of what I do to linux and hope to leave Winoze completely within 6 months.
Every new bit of news I see about Win 11 makes it sound more unappealing.
Once upon a time there was an electronics/computer store called Dixons. I remember telling a friend who was looking for a computer that I wouldn't even buy a pocket calculator from Dixons. He went ahead with his purchase and regretted it.
Currys absorbed Dixons and I haven't been able to bring myself to shop there since.
Seems to me that the "PC" as such is not what windows are aimed at. The AI PC is a device for a corporate environment or for people working from home in need of high powered computing. The "Home PC" - used for various more domestic purposes - is dieing at the hands of tablets and smartphones. Old fogies like me who want a good sized screen and a propter keyboard to run the apps we chose the way we want will moving to linux as the effort to tame the beast of Redmont becomes more effort than it is worth.
When I first became involved with home tech I was very pleased with my Apple IIe, complete with a mass of 3rd party plug ins and some howebrewed mods. My respect for the company took a beating with the launch of the Apple III and has been in decline ever since. The only thing I would use an IPad for is scraping mud off my boot as, unlike a piece of card, it would not get soggy.
Actualy I want the start button in the top left corner and the task bar to the left, which is the setup I have used for years. I understand this is not possible on Win11 without third party software and TBH I am sufficiently satisfied with my customized Win 10 to stay with it until I make the inevitable final jump to a full linux household.
I recently purchased a small form factor computer which I intended to load with linux. For some incomprehensible reason it came with Win11 preloaded so for the sake of curiousity I allowed it to complete the installation. At this point I should mention my monitor is 5120x1440, a legacy of my gaming days. With the start button in the middle of the screen and other controls in all 4 corners this is effectively unusable without third party software akin to Classic Start Menu (which I use even under Win 10).
The system is now chortling away happily with Linux Mint. I am hoping other manufacturers of low end kit will not preinstall Win 11 because it is a pointless exercise.
With pi-hole on my DNS and ublock or similar on my browser I virtually never see adverts except when I start amazon without a query.
As for the interface, Classic Start Menu keeps my system effectively unchanged over Windoze version updates.
My one regret is that so many apps have gone the way of android using odd meaningless glyphs in random positions. Bring back CUA!!
I even like titlebars which change colour to highlight the window with focus.
PS: There is a lot to be said for focus follows mouse, with or without autoraise as you prefer.
For some time the only thing which has kept me on windoze was games. However most of the games I am interested in can now be played on linux and the only thing keeping me on windoze is inertia. I've freed up an M2 SSD and will shortly be installing linux on that to make the system multiboot. This will allow me to discover anything essential which I can't run under windows and can't do without.