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devtesla wrote

Reply to comment by emma in As a software professional who hasn't owned or used a windows machine in probably 15 years... by flabberghaster

Lol, its really more a windows mobile thing. a big part of windows 10 was that you could write apps that would work on windows mobile, xbox, and windows pc at the same time. "universal windows platform". it became clear that no one was going to do this almost immediately, with mobile failing and xbox refocusing on gaming

a big part of why windows 11 exists at all is to remove all the stuff tied to uwp

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toasthaste wrote

would you broadly recommend switching from windows 10 to windows 11? removing some of the cruft seems nice, and I just sort of assume that updates have allowed 10 to be as maximally predatory as it can be (so I assume 11 probably isn't worse in that regard?)

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devtesla wrote

no, there's too many bugs, but in like two years it'll be an easy recommendation. the settings app is much nicer, it fixed some display switching issues I had, and otherwise it works just like 10

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ellynu wrote

its too bad windows 11 does not support my gaming computer whatsoever >:o

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devtesla wrote

what's yur cpu? I have a Ryzen 3600 and I had to turn on a weird security feature in my motherboard bios to install it

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ellynu wrote

intel i5-6600k. its older than ryzen yet good enough that there's no game that like i struggle to play so upgrading it and the motherboard would make no sense whatsoever.

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devtesla wrote

yep, no reason not to stick with it

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ellynu wrote

it just seems weird to me that with hardware that there is no reason to upgrade, its not supported

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devtesla wrote

it's some security stuff, that you might be able to fix with like a dongle or something if you really wanted to down the line. it also makes the developers happy to not have to support older hardware. and of course it's to push people to buy a new laptop lol

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ellynu wrote

honestly i feel like i'd rather just use it as an excuse to try and ditch windows than bother to buy a dongle. but im pretty sure the processor itself isn't supported at all, so even if i got the dongle it would do nothing for me.

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