What's So Bad About Windows 11? Help Me Understand
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The hardware support is also a big issue, but I don't know how many people complaining so vocally don't have computers new enough to run without any kind of bypass.
Microsoft cannot be trusted as a provider for data. I use it on my work machine but here I am authenticated by a locally hosted domain controller. Private installs are a privacy and security nightmare.
I just like the utility of being able to swap hard drives to other machines and I have no evil maid anyway.
In many instances Windows says you system is too old if your system uses MBR/Bios for booting. TPM2.0 is old for that matter. It is just not detectable depending on your boot configuration (which is a good thing in my opinion).
> Criticisms of telemetry and promotion of tools that supposedly disable it aren't new
Yes, well, it does get a lot, lot worse if this telemetry is connected through an account.
At work, the most annoying thing was the ads, but after disabling then, WSL works just as fine on W11 as W10.
I simply fail to see any benefit of upgrading - apart from security patches.