Windows 7 was the BEST Windows. Change my mind.
The only issues I had on Windows 7 was programs (and websites ffs) complaining that I'm on Windows 7.
Upgraded to Windows 11 with a laptop because I was forced to (old PC's boot drive died, as you likely know, and the machine is slowly dying otherwise) and I've had nothing but problems.
Also, you probably will not find me complaining about Windows Copilot here. Why? Because I blocked Windows from updating past 22H2 via the registry on both my laptop and desktop :) So unless that gets changed without my permission, it ain't happening and I ain't getting Copilot anywhere NEAR my machine. Suck it, Microsoft. I mean, Microshit.
Reasons why Windows 11 sucks:
OBS installed & opened totally fine with no issues. I do a restart. OBS "Failed to initialize video." I do updates. OBS runs fine. Suddenly, after no change whatsoever, OBS: "Failed to initialize video."
I attempt to update Nvidia drivers because GeForce Experience tells me the newest Game Ready Driver is available. Update failed 10 times in a row. I download directly from Nvidia. Update goes through fine. Since I'm there, I get the Nvidia Studio update as well. Fails. Whatever, idgaf. (It was after this point that OBS errored the 2nd time (the next day), described above). Attempt updating drivers again & discover that, for some reason, Geforce Experience no longer exists. Continue to try updating and continue failing until I update automatically via device manager. OBS now opens.
Unplug laptop because battery is charged. 3 seconds later, BSOD. Second time next day. Fixed by updating battery drivers via device manager (search my computer for drivers). No longer has happened.
Plugged in the laptop & screen froze, apps started slowly closing & crashing requiring a forced shutdown. Has not happened a second time but I also haven't done anything to try fixing it.
Browser began freezing randomly for 12+ seconds at a time and then quickly registering every click, scroll or other action taken during its freezing arse. I was screensharing in Discord at the time so this is likely the problem. I tried killing the processes of my browser & Discord. Discord restarts & gives me RTC connecting error for the next 25 minutes.
On top of all this, the poor thing has been restarted like 50 times in 1 week which doesn't make me feel good.
Now I'm getting weird audio crackling when I dare to launch any other program instead of literally gluing my eyes to the YouTube video that's playing. The crackling also happens if I'm in another program doing anything at all that causes a slight increase in the amount of activity like scrolling in another window. Discord running seems to be the worst. And screensharing in Discord makes the issues even worse. CPU usage is only at 30%, i7 12900KH.
With a i7 12900KH & 3080Ti, the thing is so laggy when running a browser-game or something in the browser that takes more resources than normal simple browsing. I get random system hangs if I dare to try running a full screen browser video + OBS to record it or screensharing Discord or something similar, even though CPU usage doesn't even go above 30%. The system will entirely freeze to the point that the ONE THING that is specifically designed to work in ALL situations, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't even work.
Every time I wake it from sleep/hibernation, something else is broken or not working correctly. Windows 11 is the most unstable piece of shit operating system I have ever experienced. I would rather spend my life savings on a Mac that's half as powerful & made of pure trashium because at least then I'm getting what I expect & paid for.
Instead of a laptop, I've built a desktop and cloned the OS drive from the laptop to it, so it's still Windows 11. And yes, it has issues. For example, every time I wake the PC from sleep, one or more of the following things will happen:
Desktop audio will be non-existent and it used to be enough to do Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open task manager, go to services, find "Windows Audio" and restart that and then restart "Windows Audio Endpoint Builder" or whatever and restart that. But now, that's sometimes not possible, so I have to open the services program directly and restart Windows Audio service from there.
One of my displays will be on and connected but show a black screen. It's a 4 inch 2k touch screen display from Amazon and really might be more of an issue with the display than the computer, much less the operating system, but it's still when waking or restarting the PC that this happens. Simply unplugging the USB and plugging it back in is enough to solve the problem, but that is still annoying because
I have to do it
The location of it
Less often, but sometimes still happens, some program windows I had open when I put the PC to sleep will be on random screens and/or in random positions and sometimes sizes. Display Fusion has helped with this a lot (when it actually works without having to restart it...) but it simply does not work for some programs. I can set Discord to work with it and it'll be fine and work, but as soon as I restart the PC, wake it from sleep or probably restart Display Fusion, it will no longer work.
Some programs just can't remember window positions whatsoever and will open in random locations on a random display with a random window size. OBS, for example. Davinci Resolve as well. Speedcrunch, my calculator app. Again, Display Fusion has been helpful here. And this issue seems to be related to display numbers or something arbitrarily changing. The game Balatro allows you to choose which display you want the game to appear on. I have 6 and I like it to be on my pen tablet, which is right now, probably, "display 4". After waking the PC, Balatro will still appear on "display 4" but it is no longer the pen tablet. NOTE: This issue seems to be solved - I recently checked device manager after a bit of googling about the issue (and not quite finding what exactly I was looking for but it pointed me in the right direction, clearly) and made sure to show hidden devices, then check under displays and there were some duplicates of my displays. I uninstalled all the duplicate display devices and since then, at least what I've noticed over 2 days, programs open on the displays I had set originally. I use Davinci Resolve with dual screen enabled under the workspace tab and it used to switch BOTH windows to random displays, but the past 2 days this has not occurred. Fingers crossed the issue is solved for good!
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