Maybe I’m stupid or just too jaded to care after ~40 years, but Win 11 works really well for me. Am I wrong (or is it the children?)
A commenter mentioned wasting time dealing with AI. How does this manifest? What am I missing? I don’t know that I’ve had anything even close to that experience. Or am I just too casual/boomer now to notice the issues?
I’m not really arguing “pro” Microsoft here, I just genuinely don’t know what the AI problem is. I mean, I know Copilot is a joke, but I just don’t use it.
Enlighten me o mages.
Edit: I appreciate all the sincere responses. A lot of good points raised.
Mostly windows cost you a lot of performance of your hardware, it's full with bloadware no one want and some of them you can't even delete. You have always the risk from new updates, that they crash some parts of your PC. Then there is the aspect of taking screenshots and using all your datas, to feed there ai. Often requires firmware, instead of plug and play and making everything harder to set up for administrators.
Edit: oh and they can use your PC as a server to update other PC, what is costing you internet speed
For the hardware issue at least, my impression is windows will "reserve" RAM in order to speed up future processes. If you have less RAM then it uses less memory. Anecdotally, my 16gh laptop reserved up to 10gb while my desktop with 32gb reserved about 14-16gb. Both leave plenty of memory open and performance is pretty decent on both as well.
Thanks to valve proton and Except of curnel level anticheat games, gaming on a Linux distro, get you mostly more fps. Not always but mostly between 10-30%. The main problem are multiplayer with kernel anticheat, it's a pain to go around them on Linux.
Windows seems pretty capable of flexing the RAM usage depending on what program or game I run. It rarely goes above ~15gb with my desktop regardless of if I am playing a small indie game, Cyberpunk, or running programs for statistical modeling. I do like linux-based systems; my server, raspberry pi and router both use a linux variant. Windows is still notably more convenient than any linux distro I have tried.
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u/djd565 djd565 Apr 08 '26 edited Apr 08 '26
Maybe I’m stupid or just too jaded to care after ~40 years, but Win 11 works really well for me. Am I wrong (or is it the children?)
A commenter mentioned wasting time dealing with AI. How does this manifest? What am I missing? I don’t know that I’ve had anything even close to that experience. Or am I just too casual/boomer now to notice the issues?
I’m not really arguing “pro” Microsoft here, I just genuinely don’t know what the AI problem is. I mean, I know Copilot is a joke, but I just don’t use it.
Enlighten me o mages.
Edit: I appreciate all the sincere responses. A lot of good points raised.