In conjunction with this thread and in the spirit of being thorough, I'd like to hear what our Win11 users don't like about the OS, and also, anythings you like about it.

I'm a longtime Win10 user and so is the wife. I keep hearing that Win11 blows. Chances are, she's getting a Mac, but I'd still like to hear your thoughts on 11.

It's horrible. Loses emails. Difficult to navigate. Ignores commands. Apps lock up for no reason. Unnecessarily complex sequences for what should be simple tasks. Forces apps and features on you. Endless pop-ups. Experience with earlier Win OSs absolutely no help.

Can't really think of anything I like about it. My email program locked up just yesterday for no reason. Again.

Bring back Windows 10!!!

I find myself being odd man out, but I like Windows 11 Pro that came with my Dell XPS. I have run into some stability issues but I also ask it to run some very old software not designed for it.

The search feature works pretty good for me.

I really don't find it much different than the windows 10 Pro I used to run at my old job.

I really have not had to mess with it very much for it to do what I need.

I do like iOS on my phone, but that sometimes confuses me more than Windows does.

I can't say that I noticed all that much of a difference when we switched over at work.

Why did they have to make EVERYTHING different from WIN10?

I like my task bar at the top of my screen. I've had it this way since Windows 95. This is an unsupported "feature" in Windows 11 - I can no longer have my task bar at the top like I've had for the last 30 years... This is an example of Windows 11 - Why eliminate this functionality? Laziness is all I can come up with... My next computer will be a Mac.

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My wife told me about this the other day. She likes her task bar on the side.

Pissed her off.

I have had it on my machine since January and absolutely no problems.. WOrks like a champ for me, and once I go used to it, I like the menu system better than in 10. I am very happy with mine.

My taskbar does not work since I upgraded from 10. And it wants to upgrade often. And you can't shut off the updgrades,just postpone them. And to install the damn upgrades it wants to restart the computer while I am trying to use it! PITA!

There's some de-bloating required but it has been stable for me.

The menus are totally different than past versions of Windows which is more just an annoyance.

Everything on it is basically SaaS model.

It wants to save everything to Sharepoint.

There seems to be tons of different things constantly running in the background eating up memory.

...but then again I'm inherently a Mac Guy forced to use Windows at work and the last version of Windows I found tolerable was Windows 7.

I've heard that the reason the Task Bar can only be on the bottom is because Win11 was a completely new rewrite of Windows. So a lot of the "Features" that we liked about previous versions just haven't been added yet because they had been concentrating on getting a working version of the OS out the door at the beginning. Supposedly, as time goes on, these missing features will be reintroduced in some form or another.

I have 10 running on my main and 11 on my laptop and really don't notice a difference when I jump between the two.
Only part I don't like on 11 is it insist on saving things in the download folder when I like to save to the desktop. It makes you change it every time.

I love it. Mine is stable, easy to navigate, and fast. It is well supported online, and through Microsoft.

I have more issues with Office 365 which wants to push everything to the cloud than I do with the underlying OS.

I'm using a Lenovo Yoga business grade laptop.

Different look and feel, different menu structure, forcing me to do things in different ways than I like. Add to that the things I've read about Win 11 monitoring/tracking/reporting everything you do to Micro$lop. I got a new laptop last year and it came with Win 11 on it. I futzed around with it for a couple days and then said Fuck This, wiped the brand new drive and installed Linux on it. Much better.

I'd been using Win 10 for several years at work, up until I retired a couple years ago, and I liked Win 10. Win 11 sucks big time.

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I'm a longtime Win10 user and so is the wife. I keep hearing that Win11 blows.

Same here. I'll stick with Win10 for as long as I can.

A couple hundred Dell laptops in our work environment on W11Pro, nothing really to complain about with it.

I was the first user to go to W10 & W11. Other than W8/W8.1, I've had no issues with Microsoft OS.

Umm... I'm going to be odd man out. I've used it for work for quite a while. Plus my home PC used for mostly gaming. Only the rare crash to desktop on my gaming machine. But that's expected rarely.. not the OS issues usually some issue with Steam of the game it's self.

I'm pretty happy with it.

We have it at work, and honestly I don't notice much difference between it and Win 10. It's pretty stable and the navigation/user interface is pretty similar. the biggest thing I don't like about it is the same thing I don't like about Win 10...they make it difficult to access and navigate the file system.

It's like they don't think you're smart enough to work with folders and try to make everything app or search based. Using ambiguous little symbols instead of words (cut, paste, move, etc) in the right click menus is stupid, too.

These things are annoyances, but once you figure out how to configure it how you want, you can get most of your functionality back.

I'm still running win7 at home, but eventually that's going to have to change because I'm running into a few things that it won't support.

I love it, runs outlook flawlessly, menus are different but that really only affects when I am searching for a setting, but the settings menu is searchable so I just search what I am looking for quite easily;

I would go for it for sure.