I too am on Windows 11 and I'm just curious why you say that. I do notice somethings like not being able to add in events to your calendar or just the number of updates in general, but overall, I can still be productive with it.
My experiences:
- Significant lag for file transfer on a 32GB-RAM 2TB NVME SSD system. A 10GB file should not take more than a minute to transfer, same system on Win10 transfered so fast I could barely see the popup.
- Wifi issues with constant disconnections every other hour, trouble connecting to access point but other systems logs in / connects without any issues at all.
- Firefox cannot render pages properly, Chrome has response time issues.
- Outlook/Mail cannot sync properly, even if they do writing an email becomes a hassle. Trouble with multi-accounts syncing as well.
You lucked out perhaps but Win11 issues have caused only one family member to keep it, everyone else keeps using Wn10.
Really was hyped about Win11 few years ago but now..
Moved to Linux years ago, just one win 11 machine (LTSC version) for gaming and the oldies running 3.11, 95, 98SE, 2000, XP, 7, 8.1 and 10 because I like retrocomputing but for general desktop use I will never use Windows again, Mainly running Linux Mint and it does what I want, doesn't interfear with anything, doesn't nag, doesn't have annoying popups, updates happen when I want it, it also never reboots without asking if it can, in short, it's out of the way and does what it must do.
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its a milestone lol
its a milestone lol
Lots of computing going on.
Trying to see if my brother still has a certain type of Dell lying around at his job, hardware wise it's totally obsolete and a bog standard office machine but it's from the capacitor plague era and early batches of this machine broke down after mere weeks and ended up with bulging/exploding caps, Dell knew this so they had to pay up and replace all the mainboards because they knew that those machines had bad caps and sold them anyways..
Hope they still have one, it's mostly standard MicroATX and I have some new old stock stuff lying around, think I can make a pretty decent sleeper machine out of it..
Trying to see if my brother still has a certain type of Dell lying around at his job, hardware wise it's totally obsolete and a bog standard office machine but it's from the capacitor plague era and early batches of this machine broke down after mere weeks and ended up with bulging/exploding caps, Dell knew this so they had to pay up and replace all the mainboards because they knew that those machines had bad caps and sold them anyways..
Hope they still have one, it's mostly standard MicroATX and I have some new old stock stuff lying around, think I can make a pretty decent sleeper machine out of it..
Who remembers those Packard Bell machines shaped to fit in corners?
The two front facing sides had all the usual things you would see on the front of a regular PC.
The two front facing sides had all the usual things you would see on the front of a regular PC.
I've actually seen a few of these being used in an office where they indeed were sitting in the corner, they also had a few early all in one computers with a rather clunky square case mounted below a non removable 15" monitor, those were late era 486 machines though..
And here's the Dell PC I'm after..
And here's the Dell PC I'm after..
Had a client that had a a pile of dell systems like that. Not sue of the model but remember the cases opening like that and they were pretty easy to work on.I've actually seen a few of these being used in an office where they indeed were sitting in the corner, they also had a few early all in one computers with a rather clunky square case mounted below a non removable 15" monitor, those were late era 486 machines though..
And here's the Dell PC I'm after..
They did have a couple that were the only time I ever had to deal with dram.
I think we've only got one desktop left in the office (Dell optiplex) - but I couldn't say what processor etc is in it.I've actually seen a few of these being used in an office where they indeed were sitting in the corner, they also had a few early all in one computers with a rather clunky square case mounted below a non removable 15" monitor, those were late era 486 machines though..
And here's the Dell PC I'm after..
We're mostly laptops now, but our first non terminal units were Apricot branded running windows 95 way back when. After that, it was Dell all the way.
Didn't realise that Apricot systems lasted around long enought to make it into the Windows 95 Era, but wiki says they ended the production of their own designs circa 1990.
I can remember about reading about one of their system in Byte which had a card based security system and if you lost the card you were sunk.
The internals, I couldn't swear to, but I do (Frighteningly so) remember that we paid Apricot for them, and it had the logo on, but yeah, looking online, they were more than likely Mitsubishi at the time.
Before that, it was strictly mainframe terminals in the office
Before that, it was strictly mainframe terminals in the office
So, I was browsing with my tablet, which is something I do if I need quick information on a game I'm playing, and I witnessed something alarming. Normally if a website sends a permission based popup, it's to ask if you want to subscribe to notifications, something I never do anyway. But today I got one that was different: It wanted access to discover other devices on my network, the text being to the effect 'This website would like to search for other devices on your network [Block] [Allow]'. The site in question was IGN. WTF does a gaming network need to know about devices on my network?? 
Obviously, I did not allow it, but it makes one wonder.
Obviously, I did not allow it, but it makes one wonder.
So, I was browsing with my tablet, which is something I do if I need quick information on a game I'm playing, and I witnessed something alarming. Normally if a website sends a permission based popup, it's to ask if you want to subscribe to notifications, something I never do anyway. But today I got one that was different: It wanted access to discover other devices on my network, the text being to the effect 'This website would like to search for other devices on your network [Block] [Allow]'. The site in question was IGN. WTF does a gaming network need to know about devices on my network??
That sounds quite alarming....
Found this online
Thanks, that kind of explains it, but it still leaves the question as to whether a website like that one would even need to see other devices. It could also be I hit something by mistake to make it appear without noticing if I did. A website like that one shouldn't need to be interacting with other devices.
There's something really nostalgic about installing Windows XP onto an old machine, hear the optical drive spinning and the harddrive noises while installing and configuring.. was all really advanced back in the day..
then you're reminded of how slow spnning rust is and how confining it it to work on a 14 or 15" monitor at 1024x768
I can remember thinking how great it was using the Xterms at uni in the early to mid 90s with their high resolution 17" monitors.
At the time I was running FreeBSD (probably using KDE) and using a 15" monitor.
And who else can remember actually needing to park a drive? My first PC, you always had to park the drive before shutting down. That's something younger kids will never understand. I can't remember when exactly they stopped needing to have to do that, but we did have an early "laptop", which was needed parking as well. Talking about it today, it's something that sounds like such a strange concept.
And that time you forgot to park it.
I've been using computers since the mid 80s (Though first pc I ever used was around 1990) and I really don't remember having to do that
- With my first own - DX2-66 (and borrowed 386-25 laptop my dad had at work), I know we definitely didn't with thoseSimilar threads
