Subj : Re: Windows 11 Upgrade Pr
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Thu Sep 11 2025 21:22:50

On 9/11/2025 12:09 PM, Ky Moffet wrote to Mike Dippel:

-> I tried it on a middle-aged but decent HP laptop (midrange i5, 8GB RAM). 
-> It is certified for ChromeOS Flex, which seems to be the one that's 
-> available.
-> 
-> It runs, I'll give it that. It took over an hour to install, then it did 
-> a full replacement update even tho I'd just downloaded the current 
-> version a few hours previous.
-> 
-> Beyond that... unless I only want to do browser things, it is the most 
-> singularly useless OS I have ever seen. (Worse than the Android 
-> derivative on my unloved Kindle Fire, which runs better and at least 
-> mostly works.) It cannot use the Google Play store, which was the entire 
-> reason I tried it (wanted something with a screen bigger than a postage 
-> stamp to run the Starlink app). The help for Google Play just goes in 
-> circles.
-> 
-> Because of that, there is no way to install anything that isn't actually 
-> a browser extension.
-> 
-> Dark mode is weird, it's actually some sort of Night Light with a black 
-> background. All of what should be light or white are... orange.
-> 
-> So... yikes, NOT what I need in an OS, not even . But it was good to try 
-> and find that out!!
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Sorry to hear that.  I guess there is no perfect OS.  There are certainly some drawbacks 
if you have a bunch of Windows programs that will no longer run on your computer.  I 
found a way to upgrade Win 10 to 11 with no problems at all.  If you can do this, it is 
certainly the best option since you don't lose your programs or files.

My second computer is a Windows upgrade and runs perfectly.  The upgrade doesn't 
speed up the computer, but the best thing about it that it extends the OS to October 
2029.

Mike Dippel


 
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