I recently upgraded to Windows 11. I’ve been putting it off, but there are a few apps I need that simply do not work under 10 anymore. Bleah.
I’ve been using it on a work machine for several years, but I am still surprised at just how much it sucked to switch from 10. My personal setup has been heavily customized over many years to suit my particular needs and wants. More than half of that customization is no possible under 11. There are workarounds for a few pieces of it, but even those are unlikely to remain stable and functional for very long. Microsoft is constantly changing things that cause unsupported features to break.
So I now have a slower, less reliable, less versatile, and less configurable software environment. It also conducts far more surveillance and sends even more information about me to Microsoft. There is not one single way in which this could be considered an upgrade, except by Microsoft’s shareholders.
I’m going to set up dual boot with Zorin. That will allow me to boot into Windows 11 for the few things I need that will only run in that environment. The remaining 99.9% of the time I will just run Linux. (I already know Linux pretty well, I just haven’t run it as my primary desktop.)
I suspect my next project will be replacing my Android phone’s OS with something less invasive.
I don’t know if it’s possible, but have you considered trying to install Windows in a virtual machine and just use Linux as your primary system? I started out this way too, where I had a dual-boot Linux and Windows system, and eventually I realized that I was booting into Windows so little that I just installed Windows in a virtual machine for the, like, very few times I ever needed it. And then, eventually I found out I didn’t need it at all anymore, and just killed the VM, and I haven’t used Windows for years.
You can set up a VM that accesses the raw disk partition of windows, instead of an image, so you can either dualboot or boot normally, in order to have windows alongside Linux.
Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know you could have Windows and Linux on the same disk in separate partitions, and then boot Linux and have the virtual machine access the raw disk image of Windows.
I recently upgraded to Windows 11. I’ve been putting it off, but there are a few apps I need that simply do not work under 10 anymore. Bleah.
I’ve been using it on a work machine for several years, but I am still surprised at just how much it sucked to switch from 10. My personal setup has been heavily customized over many years to suit my particular needs and wants. More than half of that customization is no possible under 11. There are workarounds for a few pieces of it, but even those are unlikely to remain stable and functional for very long. Microsoft is constantly changing things that cause unsupported features to break.
So I now have a slower, less reliable, less versatile, and less configurable software environment. It also conducts far more surveillance and sends even more information about me to Microsoft. There is not one single way in which this could be considered an upgrade, except by Microsoft’s shareholders.
I’m going to set up dual boot with Zorin. That will allow me to boot into Windows 11 for the few things I need that will only run in that environment. The remaining 99.9% of the time I will just run Linux. (I already know Linux pretty well, I just haven’t run it as my primary desktop.)
I suspect my next project will be replacing my Android phone’s OS with something less invasive.
I don’t know if it’s possible, but have you considered trying to install Windows in a virtual machine and just use Linux as your primary system? I started out this way too, where I had a dual-boot Linux and Windows system, and eventually I realized that I was booting into Windows so little that I just installed Windows in a virtual machine for the, like, very few times I ever needed it. And then, eventually I found out I didn’t need it at all anymore, and just killed the VM, and I haven’t used Windows for years.
I’ve tried that in the past, but I don’t think it will currently work. I’ll look into it, though.
You can set up a VM that accesses the raw disk partition of windows, instead of an image, so you can either dualboot or boot normally, in order to have windows alongside Linux.
Used to work this way about 10 years ago.
Oh, that’s interesting. I didn’t know you could have Windows and Linux on the same disk in separate partitions, and then boot Linux and have the virtual machine access the raw disk image of Windows.
https://github.com/ravendevteam/talon
This is how I tolerate w11
Thank you! I will check that out.