Windows 11 available on October 5

jonnied12 said:

Don't fall for it. It's a trap!

Not making a hurried decision at the moment. When I was offered free W10 in my W7, I skipped all of the windows updates - which pushed the update - turned from a user who used to download all windows updates to a user who rarely updated windows I have never missed any security updates though.

CountMike said:

There's nothing with AMD that would make it less compatible, small trouble with L3 cache but will be fixed, just practically imperceptible memory slowdown.

if its as simple as that, I will consider but I am gonna wait a li'l longer before jumping the ship to W11

quandary said:

If you are serious about you PC then the very first thing to do is make an image copy. You can use Macrium Reflect (free edition) for this, but you obviously need some backup medium. Once you have done this you can perform the upgrade and try it out. If you don't like it (you should have already done research on the differences), then just restore the image copy.

The backup or restore of a typical OS partition from one HDD to another is 15-20 minutes.

The backup is something I have been considering for a while now & free versions have usually put me in doubt whether they can be reliable or not, at the time of need. I have been taking regular browser backups & my text file backups once or twice every month onto my pendrive & also lately on gDrive in encrypted forms - those are my only mission critical stuffs, all the rest I can manage.

At the moment I have SanDisk 64GB & 128GB pendrives. I wasn't sure if space on them would be enough for backups.

For all the nonsense I use my old W7 Core2Duo laptop - 512gb regular HDD, still have over 100gb left space on it.
I was thinking of getting an external HDD but dilly-dallying on it, as I am not heavy HDD user, was wondering if its a worthy investment = may be will need to buy one - just to maintain backups.

Your first priority is to get your backup strategy in place. The deciding factor with the OS is: are you prepared to do a clean install if there is a total failure. This involves reinstall and configuring all your apps, and making sure you have the license keys available. I am assuming you have a backup strategy for your data, either pendrive, either cloud storage, DVD, or all of these.

Your options are easier if you have separate partitions for the OS and data, as you should have regular backups of your data, but may only need periodic backups of the OS. If there are space limitations then maybe only two versions. An image copy of an OS will require about 50% of space of the original partition.

Macrium Reflect seems to be the most commonly used by people on this site. If you really like the product you are encouraged to purchase the full version. It is good to be skeptical about free software, but there should be no concerns about MR.

External HDD's with tons of space are quite economical and worth every penny as a backup device. With HDD's you are compromising speed vs capacity and portability over an SSD. A 2TB HDD is about the same price as a 1HB SDD. With the HDD you will need a case and power supply. With the SSD & case you just plug it into a USB port.

Crizal said:

Certainly a learning curve but not difficult. Kind of weird that what used to take one or two clicks now, at times, takes three or four.

Agreed the learning curve is not difficult but still cannot see the point (for me) to make the jump. From what I've seen running Win11 on my spare non-compliant laptop there's really nothing there. Now maybe over time as MS develop the OS further there will be a compelling reason to jump but for now.... And I agree, why the three or four clicks rather than one or two. Looks to me like rearranging the deckchairs.

But if you like the look of the new UI then go for it. A personal choice in my book.

mart1981 said:

Agreed the learning curve is not difficult but still cannot see the point (for me) to make the jump. From what I've seen running Win11 on my spare non-compliant laptop there's really nothing there. Now maybe over time as MS develop the OS further there will be a compelling reason to jump but for now.... And I agree, why the three or four clicks rather than one or two. Looks to me like rearranging the deckchairs.

But if you like the look of the new UI then go for it. A personal choice in my book.

For precisely what you stated is why I'm keeping my rig on Win 10 for the foreseeable future, even though it's fully compliant with 11. The Acer lappy is a loaner from a relative who wanted me to "play around" with Win 11. It will be going back soon.

Still waiting...
but given the problems it has caused many folks, it's probably best it is rolled out to me later rather than now.

Hi,
Only real issue is the start menu is crap and only fix is third party free open shell which I do not like or payware.
Sad ms couldn't add the ten start menu options is it not modern enough lol
I'm just not using it when I do use 11.

But for the most part besides moving settings it's not all that different than 10.

CountMike said:

All that they should change is to get rid of "Recommended" under APPs part so all APPS icons cane be displayed.

Hi,
Not sure I didn't use a reg to remove recommended apps either
I'll have to check that.