My gaming laptop is a W10 machine natively. With the ending of service for W10 here, I’m deciding if taking the jump to upgrade to W11 is the best course of action. I know initially W11 was showing significant issues for gamers in terms of performance, but I haven’t heard anything about that in at least a year or so.
Has W11 matured to the point where switching over to it as the OS on my primary sim machine is a reasonable move?
I’m having no issues with Win11, but you know that MS gave Win10 a year’s stay of execution?
Yes, the first W11 version was nowhere near the current 25H2 version.
Really the switch is not very spectacular. Provided all your hardware still has drivers. I had to replace an old logitech webcam.
Been using Win11 on my desktop and laptop for ages now with no issues.
I did, I was thinking however might as well make the switch before the bitter end if I’m going to.
@Poneybirds @SpaceGameJunkie @chipwich Alright sounds like W11 is a reasonable option these days. Guess I’ll pull the trigger and see how it goes. Appreciate it all!
The very important to mention is fact that in Windows 11 since 24H2 bring significant boost for AM5 Ryzen 9000 (amd Ryzen CPUs in general) performance. In older 23H2 version was peformance not the same as was in Windows 10.
I upgraded all HW, where is a CPU with SSE 4.2 instruction (only this item is mandatory for 25H2) to Windows 11 25H2, and all works without any issues, Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Kaveri, Haswell, etc. with different GPUs such as GTX 750 Ti, GT 1030, GTX 1650 Super, GTX 1060 6GB, etc. There is not performance issue in compare with laster Windows 10 build. No reason to stay with obsolete Windows 10.
Damn you sold me on this… might as well carry on and move to Win11
Just want to say I’ve been on W11 for a while now. Never had any issues. Im pretty sure I made the jump as soon as I could.
At home no issues with 11. Now at work well thats a different story!
Is there still a fee associated to that stay of execution?
Wheels
No but you need to sign into a microsoft account..
You need to anyway if you want to reuse an old license when changing hardware.
No fee and you can probably do an in-place upgrade. So not reinstallation of applications and juggling profiles. In fact the process is pretty painless.
W11 seems to run slightly faster. Maybe. Hard to say since W10 was being used on a 10 YO PC.
My issue is the shennanagins. Seems the latest update decided that my downloads folder needed to be redirected to OneDrive (or it may have been the new PC, I forget which).
Used the CTT tool I’ve mentioned here before (Jay’s 2-Cents seems to like it too, now, FWIW) to get rid of Onedrive, CoPilot (I’m fine solo thank you), and other nonsense. I realise there’s no escaping this completely but…
I-Phone is just as bad, if not worse; after the last update (not an improvement IMO) now getting the message, “your ICloud storrage is full, you can purchase more…yadda, yadda.” Uh, no, I have a NAS drive for that. And who decided to auto-switch my kitten pictures to I-Cloud anyway? 
Wasn’t me.
No, you don’t. Don’t connect cable or wifi, use Rufus utility.
PS: if you upgrade from W10, you have already local account.
