Subj : Re: Installing Windows 11 on unsupported
To   : Nick Andre
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 06:47 pm

-=> Nick Andre wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 NA> Mehhh, I didn't like it when I tried it... 11 I think is Microsoft
 NA> trying to be too much like Chrome-OS.

I've heard that and trying to be like OS X also (stealing stylistic clues).

 NA> I see they're running a new commercial on TV touting the "faster
 NA> gaming" capabilities... of which I could care less as I'm not a gamer.

I'm not sure what they're getting at.  I watch a lot of streamers on Twitch
that do play current games and even on big fancy (and expensive) computers
like top-end Alienware, Windows still bombs out badly.  Doubly so if it's a
vtuber (virtual avatar) streamer playing a video game under Windows.  Their
avatar will just either freeze or completely disappear because Windows
breaks under the load.

I'd thought about streaming games but what I'd do is have a Windows box to
play the game and then a good Linux-based system (say a HP Z800 workstation)
with a good AMD/ATI graphics card running OBS to handle the actual stream
encoding via a capture card that can capture the Windows box's video output.

 NA> What really was a big letdown was the way that you cannot have labels
 NA> on taskbar items anymore, just icons. I see no logical reason for them
 NA> to change that behavior. And this becomes a real mess when working with
 NA> multiple instances of the same program, document, spreadsheet etc.

I do not know why they keep breaking/removing/hiding features like that. 
Instead they go crazy fixing stuff that isn't broken like Notepad.

 NA> And its 2022 and adding an IP printer is still a convoluted mess.

That's always been a mess and lower down on the priority list for MS, I
guess.

-- Sean

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