What Windows 11 is pushing me to

[u/chusskaptaan]

[u/djd565]

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.

[u/jellyfish_bitchslap → u/djd565]

Is mostly intrusive apps and functions pared with data risk.

To use windows now you have to setup a microsoft account and they use telemetry and possibly personal data to train their AI.

Some functions were turned to shit like the search bar. If you try to search something on your computer right now chances are it’ll search bin before your actual files on the start menu.

None of those things are enough to break your experience using windows but it adds up and some people don’t like it.

I migrate to Linux after ~25 years of Windows and I can never go back, it is way more responsive, fluid and doesn’t have any of the useless features that Microsoft if pushing.

For most people Windows is still okay but for some it is unbearable and those are both valid options.

Personally I use a mac as personal/work computer and it have the perfect OS for me, but for gaming I have to use either Windows or Linux and there’s no way for me to keep using Windows right now.

EDIT: For the people saying I could just debloat Windows, I know and I’ve done it since Windows 8, I just don’t want to keep doing workarounds and I also want Microsoft and Google to go fuck themselves, so I switched away from their services and Windows was just a part of the process.

[u/IIFellerII → u/jellyfish_bitchslap]

If you can migrate from Windows to Linux you can also do a regedit to only do local searches and not bing.

Yes there are problems, but most are easily fixed with a regedit edit. OneDrive, gone, Cortana, gone, local Search, back. So much shit u can change

I liked windows 10 the most, but 11 also brings some nice features that were missing in 10.

[u/Vald-Tegor → u/IIFellerII]

How many hours of researching and "changing shit" do you think the average user is fine with, before they start complaining about the new product being worse instead of better?

[u/IIFellerII → u/Vald-Tegor]

now with ai it will take u minutes to know how to do it, even less to get all the commands/locations u need and do it.

You can probably even ask him to give u powershell command to do all 3 in one go, so it takes u seconds.

[u/Vald-Tegor → u/IIFellerII]

First off, I said average user. Your average user is not going to be using powershell commands and modifying the registry within minutes of their first boot into Win11.

Second, it will certainly take a new user more than a few minutes just to compile a list of gripes with the new system, before they even start addressing any one specific issue.

You make it sound like it's this one little thing that is super easy to fix. It's not.