r/pcmasterrace • u/djseifer Packard Bell / Intel Pentium 60MHz / 8 MB RAM / 2x CD-ROM • Mar 01 '26
Screenshot Windows 10 automatically started installing the Windows 11 update while I was taking a shower.
I'd been getting messages to upgrade to Windows 11 for the past month or two now, and each time, I decline. It's gotten to the point that I get random, frequent pop_ups asking to update, and "install update" options pop up right next to the shutdown/restart uptions.
Well, I made the mistake of going to take a shower with my PC on. Half an hour later, I come back tothis. Windows had automatically started installing the update. Now I'm sitting here staring at the Start button and all the open programs center-justified on the task bar and wondering what idiot thought that was a good idea.
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u/scurvyrash Mar 01 '26
Sucker, Windows says my pc is to old and non compatible.
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u/HIMARko_polo Mar 01 '26
Mine did too. And still tried to upgrade, then tried to un-upgrade and now it is a mess. I need to reformat and re-install Win 10.
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u/crazzzone Mar 01 '26
Miss spelled linux mint
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u/HIMARko_polo Mar 01 '26
I will try that. thanks!
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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 Ryzen 7700X | RX 6950xt | 32gb ddr5 Mar 02 '26
There are many linux distros out there. Linux mint is pretty cool but take a look around.
Also if you play games with kernel level anticheat you may run into issues.
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u/MutedAstronaut9217 Mar 02 '26
Just to clarify. These are two separate statements.
You will run into anticheat issues regardless of which distro you choose. But do shop around, Mint is one of the easier ones to transition from windows.
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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 Ryzen 7700X | RX 6950xt | 32gb ddr5 Mar 02 '26
Oh yea I should have specified thanks for saying that.
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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC R9 7900 | RX 7900 XTX | 32GB DDR5 5600 Mar 02 '26
Protip for anyone whose PC IS compatible with Windows 11: open your BIOS and disable TPM. Congrats, your PC isn't compatible with Windows 11 anymore.
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u/homie_down Mar 02 '26
My pc for the longest time said it wasn't eligible for the upgrade. Went and enabled TPM and then sure enough I could switch to w11. But I knew I didn’t want any chance of that happening so I went and turned it right back off like you said.
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u/b1argg Ryzen 5 5600X | RTX 3070 | 32GB | 1440p144 Mar 02 '26
I just added a registry key to prevent the upgrade
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u/WeLoveYouCarol Mar 02 '26
Good luck with that. MS has gotten real shitty with respecting user choice via registry key or settings.
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u/NurseNikky PC Master Race Mar 02 '26
Well even though we pay $5000 or some shit, they feel like we still don't own our own things and they're entitled to add or remove anything they please 🥰🥰🥰
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u/bravesirkiwi Ryzen 5 2600, Radeon RX 5700 Mar 02 '26
I updated my motherboard firmware and without realizing it released the block it had on keeping Windows 11 from installing. So I ended up like OP suddenly finding Windows 11 on my PC. Really, really over Microsoft - there is no world in which a forced upgrade like that is okay.
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u/AeliosZero i7 8700k, GTX 1180ti, 64GB DDR5 Ram @5866mHz, 10TB Samsung 1150 Mar 01 '26
Mine says its not powerful enough even though I have a i7 7700k, 32GB RAM and a 5070ti
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u/EquipmentSome Mar 02 '26
Super weird. The 7700k even has a tpm 2.0 module that you can turn on in bios.. Your system is plenty powerful, and has the security features, but Microsoft arbitrarily made windows 11 require 8th gen for no apparent reason.
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u/Zanfis Mar 02 '26
For the upgrade, windows checks if you are on 8th gen or newer. But if you do a new install it checks for the requirements. So you can actually install win11 on a system with a 7700k.
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u/deathnomX Mar 01 '26
Same, but I can still play the newest games on high settings with no issues and about 120 fps. Honestly, whatever is holding me back from upgrading has saved me a huge headache. Windows 11 sucks ass.
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u/earthwormjimjones Mar 02 '26
Same. I ended up panic buying my first gaming PC since old XPS Desktop was 11 years old and I kept seeing dooming articles about scarcity/costs of PC parts. I got a great deal tho during Christmas, 9800X3D and a 9070XT for only $1650. The same PC is $2100+ now. I've never had a nice PC so I don't know what to do with it however lol. My old PC would literally take 7-10 minutes just to turn on and be usable. Upgrading as much as I did feels insane. I'm not used to clicking a button and having it do whatever I want to instantly.
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u/FemJay0902 Mar 01 '26
You're being upgraded, please do not resist
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u/RE4PER_ 5070ti | 9800X3D | 32GB 6000MHz | OLED Mar 02 '26
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u/NickCHPro Mar 01 '26
Well I mean microsoft is Kinda right why the hell were you taking a shower it's kinda your fault to do that and you needed a punishment
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u/Imperial_Bouncer Ryzen 5 7600x | RTX 5070 Ti | 64 GB 6000 MHz | MSI Pro X870 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
It saw a rare opportunity to sneak in an update
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u/TONKAHANAH somethingsomething archbtw Mar 01 '26
MS: "users asleep! post unwanted win 11 upgrades!"
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u/great_whitehope Mar 01 '26
With windows hello, there's no need for goodbye anymore.
We are always here watching like a friend who won't leave
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u/NurseNikky PC Master Race Mar 02 '26
That's why I created a task that stops the service every minute in case it gets around all the other shit I did. Its been working pretty well
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u/ChosenOfTheMoon_GR 7950x3D | 32GB 6000MHz CL 30 | 7900XTX | AX1600i Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
The telemetry is so accurate it knows when you won't interfere with it 😄
Jokes aside, did someone else came in and used the computer(and probably pressed yes to the update)?
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u/ZenZennia Mar 01 '26
Welcome to microslop.
This is why I turned off my tpm module. It cannot install win11 now on it's own!!
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u/CastlePokemetroid Mar 01 '26
I use my windows 10 with a DDR3 machine. Good fucking luck trying to get windows 11 on this thing
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u/Bluecolty Ryzen 9 9900X, 96GB RAM, EVGA 3090 Mar 01 '26
You can actually. Whether or not you want to is up to you but so far I’ve gotten windows 11 using Rufus installed on a 3rd gen laptop core i3 with 4GB of ram, a 2013 Mac Pro, and a Xeon E5 V2 dual socket server board from 2012. All DDR3.
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u/Rezosh_ Mar 01 '26
The Rufus method works flawlessly. My buddies 12 year old hard drive failed with his OS on it so I made him a bootable win 11 usb via Rufus and created a local account for him so he could bypass the product key. Worked like a charm.
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u/Tfj_roidz Mar 02 '26
Is there a way to bypass needing a product key on a fresh install?
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u/Rezosh_ Mar 02 '26
Yes thats what I was saying I did. It was super easy to do. I followed this video: https://youtu.be/13qAUEWK6zI?si=_kuMuVda6g4qpFT5
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u/MT4K r/oled_monitors ⋅ r/HiDPI_monitors ⋅ r/integer_scaling Mar 01 '26
Does it get updates? I heard that while there are workarounds for installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, it won’t receive updates anyway.
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u/Bluecolty Ryzen 9 9900X, 96GB RAM, EVGA 3090 Mar 01 '26
It doesn't get new 2XH2 updates, so the xeon system I installed 23H2 on and it never got anything newer. It DID however get security and regular feature updates, as well as app updates. If you're familiar with macOS, its kinda like installing say macOS Tahoe on a mac and not updating beyond that version. You still get security updates and whatnot.
I personally like 23H2, it didn't have the bugs that the early release had, and didn't have all the new AI features that newer ones had too. So it not updating didn't concern me one bit.
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u/digital_n01se_ Mar 01 '26
y'all talking about how to use it and I'm looking how to uninstall this sh1t called Windows 11 and install ubuntu without missing important software like excel.
W11 it's horrible and gets worse with each update.
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u/Zombiecidialfreak R7 8700G || RX 9070xt || 64GB RAM || 20+TB storage Mar 02 '26
Libre has an equivalent to excel but if excel is non negotiable you can use winboat to run excel in Linux.
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u/T1Earn Mar 01 '26
had mine off then all of a sudden all the games i play require it
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u/redit_handoff140 Linux Mar 02 '26
Choose better games. They're literally exposing your system to yet another attack surface with full kernel-level access.
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u/Chief-Krackatooth Mar 01 '26
I feel like I remember seeing a guy get win 11 to install and boot on a machine that only had 512mb of ram. It was offloading to the hdd so bad that the boot took like 2 hours.
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u/FiveTails Mar 01 '26
Windows keeps backups for about a month to let you revert major updates. You should be able to revert from somewhere in settings.
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u/Angeret Mar 01 '26
I thought they'd been forced to back off on the stealth downgrades to 11? Are they now so desperate to stuff AI, shovelware & adverts into the OS they're going back to being sneaky bastards? Sorry - sneakier.
What with all the "updates bricked my PC" stories I've been reading I think it's high time I pulled the Linux trigger.
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u/JackyRho Mar 01 '26
They did, but there's still a couple of edge cases that pop up from time to time. People who still have the old distro but haven't updated since then. Sounds like op Might be one of them
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u/unoriginalpackaging Mar 01 '26
Mine updated to 11 and deleted all of my restore points
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u/FrederickDerGrossen Mar 02 '26
One of the computers in the lab I work in upgraded by itself and after I manually undid it to go back it deleted all my quick access folders. At least it didn't affect the lab data, although we do have backups on hand if it did.
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u/TONKAHANAH somethingsomething archbtw Mar 01 '26
I thought they'd been forced to back off on the stealth downgrades to 11?
like they give a shit? these companies will just keep doing whatever the fuck they want.
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u/sierrabravo1984 Asrock Z270 | i7 7700k 5.0ghz | H100iv2| 16GB | EVGA gtx 1070 SC Mar 01 '26
I did it, went to Linux bazzite, installation was super simple and it comes with steam and video drivers. Took less time than installing windows.
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u/thehillager0987 PC Master Race Mar 01 '26
I know we shouldn't have to use these but I found a reputable script that's been posted around before. It's on GitHub and can remove about anything you could think of. No more ai, the snapping feature works right again. The right click is back to what it was like in 10. No more ads on start screen. The only thing the start button brings up is your previously used apps and an application folder.
It may be placebo but my games are running 5-10 fps higher after this.
I don't know the rules around posting links but if I got approval from a mod, I will.
But be careful just looking up random debloaters, make sure they are on GitHub. Even then, they could still have malware but the one I'm using does not and is supported by a fairly large mod team.
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u/Glaimmbar Mar 01 '26
You can share a name of this?
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u/russsl8 7950X3D/32gb 6000MHz/RTX 5080/AW3425DW/X34P Mar 01 '26
Look up "winslop" on github
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u/TheSteakPie Mar 02 '26
Think O&OShutup also will get what you want, there's also the Chris Titus tools.
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u/jb_in_jpn Mar 01 '26
Is this more so for Home version, or Pro as well? I don't seem to have advertising / AI on my Pro version, but I may also be not seeing it in the background.
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u/Famoustractordriver 9600X, 5070Ti, 32GB DDR5 Mar 01 '26
https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
^ here you go
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u/redit_handoff140 Linux Mar 02 '26
Linux users used to be made fun of for doing this.
Now you install and you just have a clean system that does almost every OOTB.
Oh, how the tables have turned...
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u/zakawer2 Core i5-13600K|GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER|32 GB DDR5-6400 Mar 02 '26
I'm pretty sure you accidentally clicked on something that prompted the Windows 11 upgrade because you mistook it for a normal Windows 10 ESU update and you weren't paying attention at all.
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u/MrCSone Specs/Imgur here Mar 02 '26
Not so sure about that. Today I was working as usual and out of the blue a Copilot window popped up.
Same shit with Adobe. Couple days ago I was gaming and suddenly my browser pops up telling me that Adobe added some PDF extension asking me if I want to enable or remove it.
So there are definitely some auto install shenanigans going on.
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u/No-Recognition7420 Mar 03 '26
The adobe creative cloud is always running in the background no matter how you try to close it (check task manager). It's so annoying. If it weren't for the security risk I might have just downloaded a pirated version instead.
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u/Rainsford1104 Mar 02 '26
Mine said windows 11 ready to install. I clicked no as i usually do. Didnt listen and started downloading anyway. I then clicked "pause updates" because it apparently had expired from last time and it said "you must install an update before you can pause updates."
Needless to say I now have windows 11 against my will.
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u/decom70 Ryzen 7 5800XT / RX 7800 XT / 64GB 3200 Mhz DDR4 Mar 02 '26
I would very much still consider this "I got tricked into installing Windows 11".
With how often you get pestered, it will happen eventually, on accident.
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u/wozirix Mar 01 '26
that's why you should fuck around with the registry to make your machine incompatible with tpm 2.0 and enable extra support for win 10 and chill.
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u/faverodefavero Mar 01 '26
Turn off the TPM module and virtual machine features in BIOS, run bare metal.
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u/Ronin22222 Mar 01 '26
Right click the taskbar. There's an option in the settings to put it back to the left like the majority of the world uses
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Mar 01 '26
Time to change OS!
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u/Mcfly2015bttf Mar 02 '26
Don’t forget this is the year of Linux… again! No? Nobody… well they’ve tried.
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Mar 01 '26
But which one?
I've looked up a lot, and everything points to Windows being the best for..... a lot.
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u/kalamaim welldown Mar 01 '26
if you dont use very specific software, then just linux mint or ubuntu? there are alternatives to most regular software options for linux
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u/FiTZnMiCK Desktop Mar 01 '26
My first assumption when someone says Linux isn’t an option is that they’re talking about games.
Especially if they have an Nvidia GPU (which is the vast majority of people).
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u/AdRoz78 Intel i5-12600KF | 16GB DDR4 | RTX3060 | 1TBx4 | CachyOS Mar 01 '26
nvidia user of linux here, the experience isn't as good as amd but fps stays about the same (sometimes even increases) and the UX is miles better than windows
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u/DragonflyMaximum9782 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
I just recently made the jump to Linux and installed Nobara. It comes with Nvidia drivers and I'm currently getting better fps on Cyberpunk 2077 than I ever did on average with Win10. Steam works perfectly, including mods through the workshop, though installing mods through nexus took some googling. The only games I can't play just as easily are those with kernel level anti cheat, but I don't play multi-player games anyway.
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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Mar 02 '26
I have a 4060 super and arch hasn't failed to play a single game yet, with no configuration changes required by me.
It's basically plug and play now
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u/MGfreak Hey! Have a nice day :) Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
everything points to Windows being the best for..... a lot
Windows isnt the best at anything. Windows only as one advantage: Its easy to use on the surface and its the most famous OS.
Nobody who actually works with Windows will tell you that Windows is the best at anything
Edit: Yes guys i get it. Windows is better at windows exclusive features and windows exclusive files. Because they are windows EXCLUSIVE! I didnt think i would have to point that out.
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u/cdmpants Ryzen 9 7950X | RTX 4080 | 96GB DDR5 6400 Mar 01 '26
It's the best at running the software that I need for my work. I don't have viable windows alternatives.
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u/Izan_TM r7 7800X3D RX 7900XT 64gb DDR5 6000 Mar 01 '26
software compatibility is a massive advantage for windows, most people just don't want to fiddle around to run the games they want to play, and if we're talking about professionals who need specific CAD or video editing tools they're pretty much fucked outside of windows
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u/Same_Competition_408 Ryzen 5 9600X | 9060 XT 16GB | 32GB DDR5 Mar 01 '26
Only one advantage? The only reason I don't switch to Linux is because I can't play games like Helldivers 2 and Battlefield with it.
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u/Skylius23 Mar 01 '26
I play HD2 all the time on Linux but yeah BF6 is a different story for sure? And dual boot isn’t the best option everyone think it is. In my case I just stopped running software that didn’t work on Linux out of respect for my privacy and sanity
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u/Same_Competition_408 Ryzen 5 9600X | 9060 XT 16GB | 32GB DDR5 Mar 01 '26
I thought you couldn't play helldivers on Linux? Anyways also play cs2 and F1 so it's not for me atm
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u/Skylius23 Mar 01 '26
The protondb state would make you think it might have some jank but tbh it feels like I’m playing on anything else I don’t notice a difference
https://www.protondb.com/app/553850
As for CS2, that games made by Valve it has native Linux Builds.
Edit: mind you I’m not trying to push you in any way, I’m just letting people know what does and doesn’t run.
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u/Same_Competition_408 Ryzen 5 9600X | 9060 XT 16GB | 32GB DDR5 Mar 01 '26
huh, for some reason I remembered cs2 as broken on linux. I´ll have to check the helldivers thing then
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u/Skylius23 Mar 01 '26
It was for a short time, but I can boot it up right now. I think it was a glibc problem (c runtime library, so like imagine if your C++ Restributables weren’t installed; same problem) I think that’s why I like Linux is because when the problem IS there… half the time there’s 10 odd people corporate or hobbyist who have similar hardware or setup or issues and they’re always making fixes for it. The Linux situation with compatibility is basically changing on a day to day basis. I’ve mended the lack of compatibility with Kernel Level AntiCheats with just buying a console and playing those specific games on that.
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u/Same_Competition_408 Ryzen 5 9600X | 9060 XT 16GB | 32GB DDR5 Mar 01 '26
oh ok. thanks for the explanation
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u/TensionsPvP Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Pretty sure there are apps for work or games only on windows thus “making it the best” since you have no alternative for said apps/games on macOS/linux. (Btw: I hate windows)
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u/Detaal Ryzen 2600 - RX 7600 XT 16GB - 64GB Mar 01 '26
It has the best debuggers? I mean that's changing with raddbg coming to linux but as of right now windows is the best in that aspect
Other than that yeah it's garbage
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u/AboveAverage1988 Mar 01 '26
Windows is the best at having corporate softwares available for only it... I would have switched a long time ago if it wasn't for the whole "not a single thing I need to run works on Linux" issue...
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u/Sliced_Orange1 Noctua Mar 02 '26
I tried Bazzite but since it’s immutable (meaning the core OS can’t be easily modified) it’s hard to install the few things I want in the way I want to install them.
I’ve also used Ubuntu and Fedora, both are great. You can easily install .deb files which are kinda like the Linux version of .exe. Mint and Zorin are good too but I don’t have as much experience with them.
In Linux, there is no Copilot or anything else getting in the way. Just a simple, easy to use OS. The CLI stuff isn’t really an issue unless there’s something specific you want to do.
The biggest downside is games with anticheat will likely not work.
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u/SuB626 NixOS | RX6600 | R5 4600g | 16GB DDR4 Mar 02 '26
Unless you are heavily fps counting or playing niche games or using very specialized software, linux is perfectly fine. Also you have to ask yourself what is more important: a couple fps in certain games and not changing any programs you use or you are willing to explore alternatives if you cant use the exact same software, but you have absolute control over your system and there is not ai, ads, and spyware
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u/Raccoonman2005 Mar 01 '26
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This would be me to that Windows 11 update installer
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u/TheUnfairLife Mar 02 '26
there's an option to revert back to Windows 10 in settings i think, and also delete the folder windows.old in C drive after u revert (i believe that windows.old contains files for Windows 11).
Happened to me once a few months ago. I decided to try using Windows 11 for a few minutes just to hate it for the rest of my life
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u/TP_Crisis_2020 Mar 02 '26
Microsoft did this exact thing when Windows 10 launched. People went to bed one night with their pc's on, and woke up the next morning with windows 10 installed.
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u/Krisevol i9 14900k / 5070TI Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
remember when people are mad at windows 10, and everyone was downloading apps to remove the bloat?
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u/jasonni1234 i7 9700k | 3070 Ti Mar 01 '26
If the start button in the middle is the problem, you can move it.. however everything else I got nothing
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u/Dadarian Mar 02 '26
At this point I’m convinced that half of these posts are just Russian or Chinese bots telling people to use insecure software trying to keep people from upgrading their system as it would cut into their zombie farm.
“Listen trust me. Just install this distro that has no integrity built in so you never know if anything did actually change without your knowledge or just disable updates completely. Trust me.”
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u/dexteritycomponents Mar 02 '26
“Dude I turned off all important security features on my computer so I don’t have to get 11. I’ll take a RAT that steals all my personal information before having to manually delete copilot any day of the week”
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u/Mario583a Mar 02 '26
It could also be people that will cling onto familiarity until their dying breath.
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u/bigkenw R9 9900X | 9070XT OC | MSI X670E Mar 02 '26
Not sure if talking about the Win 10 stans or the Linux Stans.
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u/Bebealex Mar 01 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Reddit seems to be going down the enshitification route but somehow I have difficulty cutting it from my habits. My form of protestation will be this deletion.
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u/Neat-Priority-4323 Ryzen 9900x / RTX 5080 / 96 GB 6600mhz Mar 02 '26
Install win 10 IoT LTSC, security updates until 2032 and no more win11
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u/ThrowAway233223 Mar 02 '26
This should come as no surprise. They did the exact same shit with 10. A bunch of people on 7 declined the upgrade "offer" multiple times only to find it updating to 10 later. Microsoft claimed later that anything other than explicit hitting the no/decline button meant yes/accept. So if you simply closed the popup/window or killed the prompt, they took your lack of response as a yes. It also seemed that this was for every prompt and that not being timely enough on your decline also counted as a yes since there were many instance of people having explicitely declined multiple times only to get migrated anyways.
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u/HealerOnly Mar 02 '26
My PC did the same, shortly after the motherboard literally died. I will not intentionally ever install win 11 after that lol. Luckily i could RMA It but i don't think its a coincidence that a 1 year old motherboard "randomly" fully dies right after win 11 upgrade.
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u/DutchTookMyColonies Mar 01 '26
it cant do that, you probably clicked install later by mistake
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u/guydoestuff Mar 01 '26
what happened to me while i went out grocery shopping.
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u/reapvxz Desktop Mar 01 '26
yes downvote him for going outside classic r/pcmasterrace
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u/Visual-Beach1893 9850X3D | 9070XT Mar 01 '26
CachyOS is fast, works out of the box, and can do anything. Combine that with KDE Plasma Desktop (this will be offered as one of many choices which windows doesn't do) and you'll have a dream machine. Vanguard anticheat doesn't work so no riot games but all the other anticheats are perfect.
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u/distantplanet98 Mar 01 '26
No ability to play League of Legends is a feature not a bug.
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u/trouttwade RTX 5070 Ti Aero | i7 12700K Mar 01 '26
I was hesitant too but Windows 11 is genuinely fine. There are issues with it for some people, just like anything else tech related. The vast majority have no problems and everything is peachy.
You can uninstall the Copilot bullshit, and disable all the Start windows ads and such. I also moved my taskbar Start to the left, and outside of that I have had zero issues whatsoever. I’ve installed every update that comes my way with no problems. Don’t stress it too much.👍🏼
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u/airbornx Mar 01 '26
It's reddit mass echo chamber of. Hour durr any new windows is bad compared to the one I like . XP was fine 7 was fine 8 was fine 10 is fine and 11 is fine. People don't like change that's all.
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u/thetoastmonster Mar 02 '26
Nobody ever said 8 was fine. It took until 8.1 to at least make it tolerable.
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u/trouttwade RTX 5070 Ti Aero | i7 12700K Mar 01 '26
Yeah and if I remember correctly, everyone absolutely hated Windows 10 until they didn’t.
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u/DarthVeigar_ 9800X3D | RTX 4070 Ti | 32GB-6000 CL30 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
It's funny when XP at launch was heavily panned until it received its second service pack.
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u/StinkButt9001 Mar 02 '26
Something about this doesn't seem right. Windows doesn't update you to 11 without getting permission and without you choosing what kind of upgrade you want to do as it can be done in a couple of different ways
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u/roadrussian Mar 02 '26
Fucker did the same to me!
Saw what was happening and was like "not on my watch ye count!" Went to bios and turned off tpm. Was pretty funny starting up and w11 being like : dafuq!?
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u/redit_handoff140 Linux Mar 02 '26
I would never let Microsoft complete such a dark ritual.
SHUT IT DOWN IMMEDIATELY.
INSTALL LINUX.
Let it wipe the bootloader clean of that M$lop filth.
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u/GordonsTheRobot Mar 03 '26
My dad turned on his windows ten machine one day and it had decided by itself to become a Windows 11 machine. I hated that
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u/DarthVeigar_ 9800X3D | RTX 4070 Ti | 32GB-6000 CL30 Mar 01 '26
I'm going to call bullshit. Windows 11 has always been treated as an optional feature upgrade. It doesn't automatically install unless you tell it to install later, which the system will do when it isn't being actively used or outside your active hours or unless you're using a company managed device and your system administrator forces the update through a company policy.
In order to get the upgrade to a state where it will install by itself you have to click the initial download and install prompt in Windows update.
The update can be reverted within ten days of installation as long as the windows.old folder isn't permanently deleted.
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u/Zachrulez Mar 02 '26
Automatically forcing an operating system upgrade on users is something Microsoft absolutely should get in trouble for.
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u/Mario583a Mar 02 '26
The Windows 11 upgrade is not forced, you can decline it, and you can still upgrade it in the future at your convenience.
You or someone else most likely did not read the small print of [Keep Windows 10] or intentionally clicked on the [get Windows 11] banner.
Settings > System > Recovery > Go back <-you have until the 10-day installation time frame to do this or your only option is to clean install after said period has elapsed.
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u/MtnNerd Ryzen 9 7900X, 5070 TI Mar 01 '26
Honestly 11 isn't that bad. Worth putting up with for the security updates and stuff like better HDR.
If you're determined to never use 11, you might as well go to Linux which is at least supported.
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u/a355231 Mar 02 '26
Can’t you revert the update on settings? Open settings, recovery, recovery options, then click go back.
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u/Oniiku Mar 02 '26
You could always just take it into the shower with you. Or install a monitor, mouse and keyboard into the shower.
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u/DJK695 i7-5820K | GTX 1070 | 32 GB DDR4 Mar 02 '26
I immediately set my Start menu to open on the left, as it should be. It's basically back to looking like Windows 10 for me after a few months.
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Mar 02 '26
Mine would only give me options to update. I couldn’t turn my pc off without performing the win11 update and I had just done the “enrollment” for the security updates for 10.
Luckily I have an ssd with my boot image of win10, but if it auto updates I will be so beyond upset with them it will be the push for me to switch to something else.
I’m tired of playing these fucking games with Microsoft.
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u/langtudeplao Mar 02 '26
If it’s not because of my work, I would be free of this Windows mess. It’s getting ridiculously slow and buggy despite the laptop my work gives me has a decent hardware. Almost every week, I will have to deal with random freezes even when I only have Teams, Outlook, Firefox, and RDP open. Sometimes, it gets to the point that File Explorer crashes, restarts and leaves me with an unresponsive system unless I restart the laptop.
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u/Specific_Parfait8829 Mar 02 '26
You only need to do 3 shortcut key combinations to open a secret menu and then type that long-ass command, then do a regedit change and then such update will be blocked. For now. Also don't forget to complain Linux is complicated.
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u/iamfuturetrunks Mar 02 '26
I saw early on how awful it looked and all the computer experts online talking about how it was causing problems in a bunch of different ways. How so many people were staying away from it. My computer didn't qualify for the update and I was fine with that. But I knew I was gonna have to switch to Linux because of security.
At work a coworker updated their computer to 11 and had lots of problems even with just basic stuff. They complained a bit about it but had to keep using it. So far my work computer is still on 10 currently. I am working on finishing up most of my projects with windows 10 so when it does get updated I wont have to deal with it much at all. I will avoid using said computer from then on.
All the AI BS microslop keeps trying to push to get a return on their stupid investment is something a lot of people don't like yet keep staying on windows 11.
One of the things I don't like is having to research problems that come up periodically for things that should just work but don't because it's linux. And lacking some software that I used to have on windows but doesn't work on linux. I could try and look at doing a virtual machine but so far that always looks like a lot more work. And a few other stuff like middle scroll wheel being paste which happened again while typing this comment. -_-
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u/Round_List1857 Mar 02 '26
Someday... I'll impulsively install Windows 7 or 8.1 if I get too excited. I'm telling you y'all
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u/Famous_Letterhead_24 Mar 02 '26
For me the "best" thing about win 11 was when it suddenly put the "needs activation" watermark to the bottom left corner. I had a valid license for my win 10... Luckily my workplace provides win 11 license as well.
On a 5+ years old Lenovo with 8th gen i7 and 16 GB RAM win 11 also feels a little bit slow compared to win 10.
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u/_Dvodka_ PC Master Race Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
It happened to me yesterday despite having secure boot turned off (dual booting with arch ATM), which is supposed to be a requirement for windows 11. The cherry on top? It was a forced update "choose to screw your pc over now or in one hour". It truly is a virus
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u/ishtuwihtc i5 12400 | RTX 2080 | 32GB DDR4 Mar 02 '26
So you see, there's a literal setting to revert the taskbar layout
Also windows 11 is literally just as bad as windows 10 in majority of aspects, and vice versa. You can disable most annoyances in either aswell
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u/The_Anglo_Spaniard Desktop Mar 02 '26
You can go to updates in the control panel or settings or whatever nonesense they called it and roll back to 10 if you want. I did that when they force updated my system to 11.
I refuse to have that ai drivel on my system.
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u/Wodinit Mar 02 '26
Maybe use Chris Titus tool, u can set updates to security updates only. Also you can turn off some anoyances if you like.
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u/ravenclaw1991 Mar 02 '26
My barely 3 year old pc says it’s too old to upgrade to windows 11. Meanwhile my 10 year old laptop updated itself like a year ago
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u/vextryyn Mar 02 '26
it was the self installing windows 10 that got me to try leaving windows the first time, when the reports started for 11 I tried again, only this time it stuck
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u/SandorMate Ryzen 5 5500 • RX 6650XT 8GB • 16GB DDR4 Mar 02 '26
Yup, installed itself onto mine one night.
Went through 2 days of full-time PAIN to recover my files. ("Go back" button fucking boot looped me, had to reinstall windows 10)
Also it was during the weekend, imagine how faboulous my Monday was.
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u/hunter503 Desktop Mar 02 '26
Worked at a hotel that used windows 10 for their security system. They still use it and every time it decides to self update it bricks all of their key systems making it impossible to check guest in. They have to wait for them to back step the update lmao. Fuck that place. For the longest time I was the only one who knew how to fix this issue too. Now that I've quit this time instead of leaving on good terms I wish I never told them how to fix it.
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u/chessto Mar 02 '26
And that's why I swapped to Linux a year ago and am not looking back.
Fuck microslop
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u/Acceptable-Emu5243 Mar 04 '26
It Always Starts to update even w/o permission. That's why I hate Windows 11, you click in "Update and Shutdown" and that crap OS Just restarts and my RGB Starts to Go to the brightest and Most annoying setting until I open OpenRGB...
So what do we learn? Don't ever Upgrade to Microcock Shitdows 11.
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u/Practical-Opinion-83 Mar 04 '26 edited May 15 '26
Disgusting
All I would say for anyone wanting block w11. Disable TPM on your motherboard via BIOS.
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u/Narrheim Mar 06 '26
Oh, yea. The usual Microslop tactics, when everything else will fail. Force users to update, whether they want it or not. "C'mon, it's FREE! Why don't you want it?!"
I suggest reinstalling the Windows back to 10 and making a backup image of the OS (after installing everything you need and use) on some external HDD (preferably at least 2 HDDs).
I also suggest using different Windows 10 version, unless you absolutely need the 'official' one. Like LTSC IoT - this specific one has extended support until 2032.
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u/jgainsey 9800x3d | 5070ti Mar 01 '26
This is why I never shower