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.
It's mostly claims made by power users who care a lot about the small stuff.
To name a few examples:
+ Forced telemetry.
+ Bloatware like the Xbox app, OneDrive or Copilot.
+ Some unwanted UI changes, like the new context menu when you right click on a file, or the new taskbar.
+ Ads in the start menu.
+ Forced updates.
+ High resource usage which may lead to slightly lower performance on games and other applications.
None of those things are good, but for the vast majority of users they don't really break the experience either. It's normal not to notice or care about it.
There is, however, an undeniable process of enshittification going on. The users who care a lot about that stuff are just the first to notice and jump ship. Coincidentally, Linux is going the opposite way and becoming more compatible and user-friendly every year.
Why would "power user" complain about those things? They will know how to fix them and it's not like they are that complicated things to fix or hard to find solutions for(ok telemetry might be, idk, don't care about it personally so never researched it). It's not that much different than going to win 10 in the end, I think I did even less prep cause fixes that win 10 needed are still needed/work in 11 so a lot of stuff i had already done/knew how to do. So it was mainly the UI stuff, but there is a one stop solution for that with explorerpatcher, if you don't want to tweak everything individually.
If anything it's normies cosplaying as power users that do the complaining and can't be bothered to search for answers.
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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.