I am mostly a Mac user, but I have a couple of Windows 10 boxes. I actually kinda like Windows 10, since the last version of Win I used before that was NT4.0. I had no Windows baggage, and found that Windows 10 was stable and useful for my needs.

I have been running a few Plex servers for about five years now. My main server has roughly 26TB of content, and it serves all my family and friends all over the world. When my brother lived in Saipan, he said my Plex server saved the day. Anyway, Plex runs directly on hardware on a Synology DS920+. There's a few backup servers here and there that are less capable that point to a backup Synology DS418.

I want to decouple my Plex server from the data store, so I purchased a Bee-Mini-S micro PC with a N100 CPU, 16gb RAM, and 1TB NVME SSD. It came with Windows 11 Pro. The newer version of Quicksync in the N100 transcodes more than 100% faster than the Synology's J4125 Celeron, and the fact that Plex will reside on flash makes meta-data loading almost instantaneous. Hence the switch.

What a pain in the ass is this thing called Windows 11. I feel like I've been fighting it for days now. While Plex will run on Windows, it looses HDR on 4K transcodes, so Windows is out. I tried using Hyper-V to run a Ubuntu VM, but that is causing performance issues and remote access issues with the Plex server, even with manual mapped ports in my router.

So long, Windows 11. I tried, but you failed. I am installing Lubuntu 24.4 (a lite-weight distro) as we speak. With Windows out of the mix, the future of this changeover should go much smoother.

I will use Windows 10 happily until I cannot. Only inertia keeps me from switching those PCs to a Linux flavor, so if MS truly abandons Win 10, I'll switch those as well next year. There's really not much Microsoft kit left around here nowadays.

Oh look, Lubuntu is all done! I feel better already.

Every time windows updates to a new version or I get a new computer it's weeks of trying to revert everything to how it looked and performed in Win 7. Now with being forced to disable ads and trying to find everything else they're spying on you with.

When I got my new computer last week I had to google and use powershell to bypass Win 11 first time set up REQUIRING me to have an internet connection and ms account to even get into my own new computer.

And it's only going to get worse

I forgot what I did exactly when I was asked to signon with a microsoft account when setting up but I unplugged my router in there somewhere and bypassed the requirement that way.

I think after I configured my Wireless network, I unplugged the internet connection so I was still connected to the wireless network but the internet was down. Then I was allowed to skip the login process.

We went to it at work. I wasn't a big Win 10 fan to start with, but 11 is needlessly aggrevating. Stupid stuff, like the right-click menus no longer have words for "cut" or "copy" or "paste" in the drop-down menu. Instead there's stupid little pictograph symbols up at the top that you're supposed to use, and it's kinda ambiguous which one means what. What was wrong with words? Do we have to design everything for the illiterate now?

Thankfully, keyboard commands still work.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
Stupid stuff, like the right-click menus no longer have words for "cut" or "copy" or "paste" in the drop-down menu. Instead there's stupid little pictograph symbols up at the top that you're supposed to use, and it's kinda ambiguous

Windows 11 on the work PC. This mess really ticks me off. "Hey, Microsoft! Stop taking things that work and screwing them up! You jerks!"

Just received W11 at work, as a beta test early adopter. No opinion yet. Seems to have different UI.

If you're a Mac or Ubuntu user, I would definitely look at VirtualBox and use the developer VM of Windows 11 to get the hang of it. I use it occasionally and find it to meet most of my needs, plus it's open source software with no license fee. The downside is the dev VM expires periodically, so you would need to download a new VM when they drop an update.

I feel your pain man. I hate software updates. Where I work, software updates are mandatory. We are switching our Linux boxes to RH 8, which just sux. I'm sure some folks like it, but I have to nohup everything and even that doesn't always survive the idle lockouts. I've been adding sendkeys to my scripts just to keep a remote terminal alive. I work on a local network machine that will never connect to the outside world. Why it has be be updated is beyond me. Plus, if you really think about it, if the giant enterprise I support really cared about security, they wouldn't use dos or Linux but rather have their own OS that nobody else gets.