Has anyone upgraded to windows 11? If so what do you think of it and is it worth doing.
Rick

 

I let one of my computers upgrade, haven't had any problem with it. Held off on the rest of my computers until I could see how that first one did, will probably start doing the rest shortly. (I have a few for my business plus the family computers)

 

I upgraded several months ago.

My recommendation at this point in time:

(1) If you purchase a new computer, laptop, tablet, etc. with Windows 11 pre-installed, you'll be fine.
(2) If you have no "immediate" need to upgrade from Windows 10>Windows 11 - wait several more months until more of the issues/bugs have been worked out.
(3) Only upgrade if you have the abilities/capabilities and resiliency to resolve issues on your own.
(4) Windows 11 is far more secure than any previous operating system version released by Microsoft to date (which, IMO, has been lagging behind for numerous years). If you want far better security - upgrade to Windows 11.

The very short version is this. Windows 11 requires SIGNIFICANT security upgrades and mandates these security upgrades (UEFI/TPM) are configured on all Windows 11 devices.

If you encounter some of the several issues which are currently arising in many forums, I've addressed some of the basics in the following post.

Windows 10>Windows 11: UPGRADE ASSISTANCE

 

Thanks for the replies. I will hold off a while as Norm suggested.
Rick

 

Norm, I missed that thread for upgrade assistance. Very informative, thanks for doing that.
Rick

 

Rick - I'm a member of the Windows 11 Insider program and I receive Beta Channel pre-release configurations; therefore, I receive early builds before they're publicly released. I am not on the Insider Dev Channel where others are testing engineering developments. By far the current largest issue is this: Gamers - and there's nothing wrong with Gamers - lots of worldwide revenue made from Gamers in many industries. But, there are numerous crashes (BSOD - Blue Screens Of Death) for many Gamers worldwide. It appears most of the BSOD are linked to AMD CPUs, but this has not been confirmed or denied. It "appears" the real issue resides with any h/w on their device which does not meet TC (Trusted Computing) stringent security standards. My advice - don't even worry about it unless you plan to spend eight or more hours of your day playing games.

 

No rush for me to upgrade. Besides I'm actually waiting until we know for sure it's more stable than 10.

 

Amen. I can wait. Go get yours. I rarely use my computer anyway. Just full of car pictures kids family etc pictures anyway. I think I am on windows ten??🤣😂

Me Gamer??? Ha ha that's funny. I stocked 45's into Juke boxes. Our oldest brother was juke box etc mechanic. We had the very first video games in our garage being prepped before anyone knew what they were. Donkey Kong. One of the best games ever.

 

I still miss windows 98 (BTW, IMO the best OP they ever had and yes you got to love the old arcade classics.

 

Any "new" stuff that comes out has bugs and problems. I let the idiots who have to get the "latest and greatest" to debug and fix it.

 

I miss VMS

 

Frank - A great OS, more suitable to research, academia & large back-end data integration. I spent considerable time using VMS through each of its iterations from DEC, Compaq & HP. They had some of the best (first) data servers (VAX) - actually about the only real network data servers (VAX) on the market for many years. VMS had a niche, it was never planned to be realized as an everyday mass consumer oriented end-user OS for PCs, but I know you know this.

When I jumped ship from scientific research in blood chemistry I was a shoe-in for a position with MS when MS released Windows NT. It was a VMS (DEC) engineer who jumped ship from DEC to MS. He basically wrote Windows NT for MS after all the years he spent developing VMS for DEC. Can’t recall the guys name.

 

Anyone noticed any big flaws with windows 11 yet or is it considered stable at this time?

 

Depends on what one considers a big flaw. W11 is stable if you are purchasing a new computer with W11 already installed.
If you are upgrading from W10>W11 I suggest waiting until the next release build if your computer uses an AMD CPU, which is expected sometime this month (2022 February). If you are a "gamer" do not upgrade from W10>W11 as there have been numerous issues using the AMD CPU chip. A key Windows 11 security feature is causing AMD performance issues

There is an issue with the TPM module encryption attestation on computers using the AMD CPU chipset software. If you are running any other CPU (e.g. Intel) you can consider W11 stable for normal end-user workloads. As already stated, hold-off until the next build release if you're running an AMD CPU (in particular if you're a gamer). Be prepared to have system crashes when gaming using AMD CPU.

There have been nine (9) release builds of W11 since public release (2021-10-05). W11 original release build = 22000.194; current release build = 22000.469 (2022-01-25). Windows 11 release information
There have been fifteen (15) W11 known issues resolved thus far. Resolved issues in Windows 11

There are currently five (5) W11 known issues. Windows 11 known issues and notifications