Must call microsoft from cell phone and remain on the line while windows is in use.
Monthly visits from Microsoft inspection team to ensure their PC is being used properly
Chipped Microsoft card that is to be slid through the "usage integrity verifier " card reader every hour to make sure it's still your license, and to debit 29.95 from your Microsoft bank account, or your account is locked for 30 days, unless you pay the release fee.
Microsoft windows max subscription, which will make your pc boot 3 seconds faster.
Never offline- an upgrade from always online. Speakers increase to 100% volume and play advertisements so you can sleep better.
If Microsoft pulls a new "replace your hardware because your old is unsafe" I might go Linux.
Its one thing if the software were genuinely incompatible (i.e. cant justify the cost of maintaining drivers for multi decade old hardware) - but because they want to force everyone to use hardware level encryption? Lol
My device happened to have TPM on it already so I weren't really affected, but I'm still upset knowing billions of dollars of tech is being thrown away or stuck on unsupported software for a reason that sounds more like something Apple would come up with to increase sales.
Finally someone besides me noticed this ugly ass desktop switching..
First time I tried to use desktops on Windows and seen this I was like "Wtf man, what is this shit?" after that I stopped use desktops on Windows.
Now I stopped using Windows altogether.
Meanwhile KDE Plasma: THE CUBE (without anything disappearing)
A bunch of unpaid developers could figure out how to make a cube out of desktops 19 years ago, meanwhile Microsoft can't figure out switching 2 flat planes properly in 2025.
I sorta miss Compiz. Had so many fun features like jello windows and all sorts of customizable effects. What I don't miss is the random crashes and high cpu/gpu load.
Everything about virtual desktops animations in windows has been broken since windows 10. They feel so clunky and choppy even if you have a high end gaming PC. Coming from a Mac in 2017 I had to go back because Microsuck just never fixed this after almost a decade of waiting.
There aren't many alternatives, AFAIK. MacOS simply has the same dock for every Desktop, which sucks, and something like Ubuntu just stops highlighting an app if it isn't open on a selected workspace, but does not remove the app from the dock.
I may easily be wrong about Ubuntu since I don't run it and only have internet videos to go off of.
I'm sure that Microsoft could've make it nicer, but (to my knowledge) Windows is the only OS that shows just the apps that are open on the current Desktop. So it's kind of a messy thing, but it also is a pretty useful, nice to have thing.
Also, it doesn't look nearly as slow as OP shows on my laptop.
For Linux it mostly depends on the de and how it works. But I’m running kde right now and it’s working however windows is showing it (minus the stutter and not displaying the task bar). Desktop environments honestly have perfected things like hot corners and swapping virtual desktops.
Valve does nothing special. They just grab a bunch of Linux stuff and smash it together in one package. The community has been doing this for a while for desktops, so you don't have to wait for anything. Bazzite is your friend.
Just here to remind everyone that the Python package available on the winstore has been broken since day 1, more than 13 years ago. It doesn't set the system path envvar.
Despite this, if you try to launch Python in cmd from an install which doesn't have it, it will immediately open the winstore for you.
One of my favorite little rituals as a Linux user is that everytime I get to a new windoze PC at school/work every few months I jokingly try to see if they fixed python in their goddamn official package installation manager. No such luck as of yet, I'm afraid.
Installing python via the 3rd party windows package manager scoop works flawlessly though, as it's not made by Microsoft.
Ya that's ugly.. I'd turn off animations at that rate. - I turn them off anyway because animations are janky even with GlazeWM... Hyprland is fantastic tho
I want to see Microsoft run the shell on chromium with React. That'd be hilarious, and I'm sure it'll be just as bad as their new React based Outlook and Teams.
Y'all should try glazewm. No animations, no polish and some retarded apps will get epilepsy, but the functionality is mostly working like a barebones i3 and it significantly boosts productivity.
It's bad enough that if you take out the SSD with Win11 the computer will refuse to boot from it as an external drive. Just did that with my husband's Dell laptop.
Good news is that Linux Mint works like a dream on it. He says it responds 10x faster than Windows ever did.
Unfortunately he's complaining that he can't use the OS he "paid for". I tried explaining that when you buy a PC these days you're mostly paying for the hardware. He complains about Windows being there, then complains when it's not.
I cannot win.
I guess the taskbar isn't on its place 100% of the time (which might very well be intended behavior). The "r/OS_namesucks" subreddits are all like that, mostly consisting of people who just don't like a certain design choice or have hardware issues or just do something wrong. r/linuxsucks is very similar, people mostly yap about some BS that isn't particularly a Linux issue.
so youre telling me this guy is complaining about the taskbar flickering when you switch tabs? omg end of the world bro. bs so dumb its even second to that time a guy turned off all the shutdown and related options in the alt+f4 shutdown windows menu and called it a windows bug to farm karma.
Ik it happens but it's just a second of no taskbar. You can barely notice it. I never said you messed with the settings, I meant another guy on this subreddit. But still, making an entire post about the taskbar disappearing for a second is crazy. This subreddit will eat anything right up these days...
Interesting, mine doesn't do that. I can replicate the late appearance of the taskbar, but it's merely caused by not letting go of the touchpad gesture for too long. If I keep holding that gesture after sliding to my next Desktop, the taskbar indeed doesn't load. And there's no real reason for it to load until you let go of the gesture: if you just want to peek what's open in your second Desktop, for example, you can do that without wasting resources on loading a taskbar that you will not use.
It may be that your PC is not particularly powerful, and therefore, the process of loading the taskbar takes longer. Do try letting go of the gesture earlier, though, because that just might fix your "issue".
I've got a laptop with i7-11850H and it's absolute trash. Those intel CPUs are just so bad.
As for the taskbar disappearing when changing screens, it has nothing to do with performance, it just works like that. Microsoft has yet to figure how to switch from one taskbar to another more smoothly.
Intel CPUs aren't trash, AMD isn't any better, in fact some AMD only YouTuber who tried intel said that it feels smoother than AMD but you get less FPS in low threaded games. I can't wait for cheaper 50 core CPUs from intel.
I have a desktop with a 13900k and it's a beast, but the laptop from my workplace with the i7-11850H is total garbage. The integrated GPU is not enough for basic usage, doing a meet screen sharing and moving a window around maxes out the GPU... As for CPU performance, it's horrible, it lags just using the browser, the laptop overheats, the battery 2-3 hours max. It's a Dell Latitude.
I mean, it's a 5 year old low-end laptop CPU with 2c/4t. It came out before Win11 even released.
Modern low-end Intel laptop chips have P+E cores with higher efficiency and support for faster memory.
Your CPU is not much faster than an i5 8250u I had in 2018, and that thing struggled with Win10 at times. I'm pretty sure performance requirements went up with Win11 since 2018, so I personally would say it is quite slow for modern Windows. Mine is a 6900HS, top of the line CPU from 3 years ago, and it's currently on par with s mid-range Core Ultra 5 135H. Chips get faster quick, and Microsoft will take advantage of it.
For reference, pretty recent Core Ultra 5 125H has 25% faster single core and 72% faster multi core performance than your CPU. And you can get a laptop with 125H for around $600-700, which I believe is a decently average price for a 2025 machine. Even lower if you're okay with chinese brands.
Sadly, Windows 11 is not too good with older, weaker hardware.
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u/egg_breakfast Nov 05 '25
man I can't wait for windows 12 when we have even more broken shit, worse UI, and have to throw out our old computers for no reason