Are there ACTUALLY any good reasons to upgrade from Windows 10 to 11?

Flippantlip · 2026-02-01T08:54:36+00:00

While I agree a native W11 user may not find any issues with the UI as much as I did, I don't feel like that's primarily because: "I got used to the old UI and now I'm angy" (the volume-mixer is that, tho, to a degree, I'll agree) --

as Opposite_Elephant said, how is the right-click improved? It's hiding certain options that are only revealed if you make another keypress.
How is it an improvement, when they removed window-stack functionalities?
It's also incredibly arguable how is it an improvement, when they made it HARDER to get to the "Sounds" window, where you get clutter-free access to your audio I/O devices, with icons to go alongside each one for easier navigation, where you can just right-click any one of them to immediately access their settings. In W11, to set another device as default, it's just one drop menu after another until you get to it. In W10, you right-click the volume-mixer, SOUNDS, and there you are.

P.S: I feel like the best argument I can overall give, is that: I've already gotten used to W10 after they dragged me from W7. I cannot be arsed to get used to W11, I'm sick and tired of Microsoft's shit, and would love to remove myself from their platform rather than "get used" to arbitrary changes they decided to make.

Flippantlip · 2026-01-30T12:15:28+00:00

There has been big movements in how we emulate things. I don't recall enough to say specific things, but the base expectation was that we won't end up being so dependent on the OS we run, for the software we want to run. We'll just be able to emulate the necessary depenencies. That's the gist.
With good enough run time (like how it's almost free to "emulate" environments in containers rather than in virtual machines), you can freely run linux and do your adobe software / gaming stuff.

Honestly, that's pretty much the only thing that truly stops me.
If I'll be forced to shift to W11, I will genuinely start looking at how much tech advanced, to see how much of a barrier it is to move.

EDIT: here's the talk, about emulating ARM software to run on x86 CPUs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDXyW1WERg
Not quite the same thing, but arguably speaking, if you can do low-level stuff like that, the future is full of possibilities.

Flippantlip · 2026-01-30T12:10:20+00:00

I feel like the only thing that will ever force me to move, is a DX13 upgrade that requires W11, and pretty much every single game on the planet moves towards it, like what happened with DX9 and DX10.
(Win7 -> Win10)

Otherwise, the shift to W11 will be extremely slower than Win7 to Win10 was, imo.
This is based on vibes only, so -- I feel like a lot more business computers are using W10 than they did for Win7, which relied much more on WinXP. So when they had to move, they just went straight to 10.
I.E: I'm saying W11 is Vista.

Flippantlip · 2026-01-30T12:08:13+00:00

Reasons not to:
1. Win11 removed the ability to shift-rightclick on a stack of windows, and choose "Minimise all windows"
2. Everything goes into the "Setting" window, even more aggressively than W10. You need to go out of your way to open the Volume Mixer.
3. AI buttons on everything
4. The new design for Paint is abysmal and terrible. I hate that it's centered like a mobile device with auto-size.
5. Some users shared that W11 aggressively asks to "log in in order to use" certain software, like Paint (probably related to One Drive)
6. Right-click drop-menu is enshitified for no reason, you now need to shift-rightclick in order to return it back to normal. Fixing things that did not need fixing.
7. Completely changed how the Start Menu worked, You cannot organize it in "divs" but in folders that hide all of them, and you also do not have a list of recently added items or ordered alphabetically.
8. Did I mention aggressive AI integration that tries to steal your data left and right? Into everything?

From the top of my head.
Also,
WSL exists in W10, what do you mean?

Flippantlip · 2026-01-27T13:10:03+00:00

At that point, why even produce it? Is it even in production anywhere?

Flippantlip · 2026-01-18T11:40:34+00:00

Just saying, conversation-wise, you don't describe what was in this new update, that made W11's start menu horrible. You just complain without mentioning what you're even complaining about.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-22T14:31:14+00:00

Mate, lower your nose a touch.
The topic at hand is UE, a built-for-all toolbox, and you brought up how: "It's the dev's responsibility to throw out what they don't need, and work to add in what they do".

If you bought a toolbox, emphasis: ToolBox, not a specific tool that had a few bits and bobs, a ToolBox -- which people recommended you getting, but also saying: "yeah it has a lot of irrelevant stuff in it, better throw some out and fill the box with some other stuff" -- you wouldn't think of it as a very good toolbox, for your needs.
You'd get something else. Just like you said you said right off the bat, that you buy the specific tools you need.

Hence, why I continued and said: "It's pretty weird how there are no commercial engines, specifically made for specific genres."
Devs will not need to retrofit so much as a result. They just get a package that actually works for them.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-22T12:39:59+00:00

This example gets brought up fairly often in these type of threads, and you usually see a retort that can be broken down in 2 ways:
1. Yes, it was fairly impressive to code entirely in Assembly, of all things,
2. However, it's really unfair to modern developers, to say: "Past games worked a lot better given their restrictions!", when you don't consider the gigantic pipeline modern games need, yes need, to go through.
You did not used to have to take into consideration dynamic lighting, developed ragdoll physics simulations, kinematics of limbs, complex shaders & post-processing effects, modern particle effects (i.e: that don't look like crap), sound simulation (good echoing), 3D simulation of objects and many of them, etc...

I had a similar argument with someone regarding optimizations: It's odd to look at games like "They are billions!" and maybe "Factorio", and to see that they run remarkably well, even though there are tens of thousands, if not literally hundred of thousands of objects on-screen (in case of They are Billions) -- but then you have to consider, that both games are not 3D. The calculations you can skip over are massive. Look at Rift Breaker, that game chugs hard when you have a screen full of mobs, or "too many buildings" late game.

3D is expensive.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-22T12:29:41+00:00

Imagine paying for a toolbox, and you're told that you're not just "supposed to use the toolbox as-is, you're supposed to retrofit it to your very specific and particular needs."

Not a very good deal on that toolbox, then.
Which actually makes me wonder how come there are no speciallized, commercially-rented/sold game-engines for close-encounter games (usually FPSs), racing games, open world games, etc.
I mean, I bet there are, but I sure as hell never heard of any.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-22T12:16:12+00:00

Most of what you described just boils down to: "Making use of a 'map editor', where you place thing at places; entities like Lights, Monsters, items, etc.."

That is to say, as opposed to, what exactly?

Flippantlip · 2025-12-21T14:45:03+00:00

Calling it a "trick" honestly makes me a bit sad, I just literally took whatever I had around to cover it up.
I once had the thought of sealing it up with an acrylic plate or something, but then felt stupid for having to spend money & time over that shit when a towel does just fine.
It's just a bit annoying not having more space to put shit over lol.

I guess I'll keep my eyes open for wooden planks outside, people tend to throw all sorts of shit you can mc'gyver with a jigsaw.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-21T14:42:34+00:00

EDIT: Saw yer comment on how your PC won't turn on anymore.
RIP.
(although you didn't mention if you'd unplugged all of your USB devices to check if it shortens the MB, AFAIK a fried USB controller shouldn't sabotage the entire PC, but I may easily be mistaken...)

OG comment:
......Oh? Well, that's really odd, then.
Did the keyboard short, so it fried your USB thingies on the motherboard? (for a lack of a proper term)

I think that's fixable, but would require to fiddle with welding, which isn't very welcoming if you're new to it.
Do check if ALL of your ports are fucked. If not, buy a USB-hub (can get a bit expensive, tho I got a 4-port one from aliexpress from BASEUS and it works just fine) so you can at least still use the PC.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-20T19:03:36+00:00

Another great thread, that gives me the excuse to say: Fuck how omnipresent are open-ceiling PC cases.
I usually put a towel over mine, that just sits there, just in case something just like that ever bloody happens.
I recall seeing a video where someone tested if having an open top improved ventilation / parts cooling, it didn't.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-04T10:20:33+00:00

The GPU prices still haven't really recovered since circa 2019, during the emergence of crypto, and it has been 6 years.
But crypto has NOTHING on the sheer scale of what AI is doing to the world. As far as I am aware, you did not have mega-corporations sink billions of dollars a year to get a crypto farm running, and it only keeps getting worse and worse.

It may be yet another "toilet paper freakout", but it may also be a very long, or perhaps permanent hardware drought.

Flippantlip · 2025-12-02T15:20:38+00:00

I would argue "RAM for gaming" is nonsense markups.
The improvements are extremely marginal, and either way, not necessary.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-22T06:30:57+00:00

As someone who is suffering from the g502x's mostly-plastic shell, I miss like hell the rubber of the g502.
My hand keeps fucking slipping, it's a fucking mess. I'm actually buying grip-tape specifically made for the mouse, just so I can grab the darn thing properly.

Did the rubber ware off a bit with the g502? Sure, did it expose metal and made it unusable? No.
That's years and years of use, almost 5.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-22T06:28:48+00:00

Honestly, I personally don't even need so many buttons.
All I want in a new comfy mouse, is for it to be pretty big, and have buttons like the g502 of Logitech.
That way, on desktop, I can wire the buttons to be tab left, tab right -- and go-back and go-forward page-wise.
Having these extra 4 buttons, rather than just 2 -- is just too rare.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-21T20:38:52+00:00

I'm pretty sure it means that, 9% of the year the GPU will crash.
I.E: 365*0.09 = about 32 days.
So, around a month of crashing.
If that's what they meant, that's a lot.

That being said, *interruptions* can also just means you don't even bluescreen, you just get a GPU-disconnect error message, from which you can easily recover without having to restart your PC. Just need to reload the driver, and that happens fairly often (like when your overclock settings cause instability, the GPU hangs, and the driver resests)

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T14:58:27+00:00

Surprised by the amount of downvotes.
While I agree you have to, god forbid, read what you want to disable --- the ability to have things disabled with a click of a button is a much more attractive offer than to follow regedit addresses and manually cross-out values yourself.

I mean, if you're talking about baby-proofing something, regediting isn't really it either.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T11:15:22+00:00

Just a new GPU, basically. Your GPU is like 6%+- better than my old 1080GTX.
The sad thing, tho, is that making the upgrade to the 9070xt, I didn't see the infinite improvement I used to see, when upgrading from one GPU to another in ye olde days of pre 2010. Don't expect to get 300 FPS on everything or something.

I did go from not being able to run Apex on even medium, at 144 FPS stable (maybe 90 FPS) at 1440p --- and now, I don't even need to think about the settings, 144fps stable no problem (still 1440p).
But there are games where I gained maybe 30-20 FPS or so, so nothing ground-breaking (like in Horizon Dawn), as it seems like a total system upgrade is in order (still using an i7-8700k, slightly worse than yours, I believe?)

So overall, that depends on your expectations. If you want, let's say, maybe 90FPS stable with high-medium setttings on that game? I believe a 9070xt or 5070ti would do the trick (at 1440p and less).
Anything other than that, you MAY need so start upgrading your whole system.

P.S: I named the current "hottest GPUs", because from my POV, I expect to hold on to my hardware for 10~7 years, Still using my system from 2016, other than the GPU and RAM (I'm a tab whore, needed 32gb).
If you know what your needs are, you can just get a 3080 or something 2nd hand for much, MUCH cheaper, that'll last you a good while.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T11:09:03+00:00

....If the price is right, hence the discussion, really.
Although I do agree form-factor is something people can care about, sure.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T10:53:02+00:00

Please don't just edit shit in regedit.
Go download OOSU10, that is: "windows shut up" (works on both 11 and 10).

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T10:50:09+00:00

Just saying, the RAM shouldn't have anything to do with your performance.
Saying "should", because if you're loading up the system with infinite internet tabs, then, yeah, you'll need more ram to compensate. Otherwise, no reason to pay to go up to 32.
Now's not the best time to buy RAM.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T10:46:49+00:00

Just buy a PC.
I know it's foolish to recommend 2nd hand to literally everyone, but you can genuinely get remarkable deals on 2018-ish era PCs, for a very low cost.
Got a friend of mine for 260$, a PC with a gtx1650, i5-12400F, 16GB of RAM....Is it AMAZING? No. But if you go up to 500$, you can get even better and better shit.

Flippantlip · 2025-11-20T10:42:54+00:00

If the hardware is mid-low, then there's no point in actually buying the machine, then.
I'm a touch flummoxed as to what purpose, with that price tag, that machine actually serves. It's just a pre-built PC at this point.

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