Some of my wares of the seven seas did not run properly (like asassins creed valhalla), and there were performance issues when gaming. So I rolled back to Win 10.

Any fellow sailors out there daily driving 11? Have the big bugs been ironed out yet? Any glaring issues?

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[–] Crator@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I've been using Windows 11 for about a solid year now. Had zero issues gaming and using various programs. Transition from 10 was flawless.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just upgraded to 12 (Debian), highly recommend it's bigger number than bleb winblows

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

This is a joke I guess, but actually the new debian release is pretty sweet. Plasma is getting real good these days, if you care about that sort of thing.

[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

I would recommend OpenSuse 15.5. Python3.6 is very old, but the version number is even higher and it works flawlessly

[–] Arcaneslime@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, as a man of culture I use Linux.

(Lol just gotta get a dig in, can't resist. I know gaming isn't 100% there yet but Steam and their Proton are making great strides in recent years.)

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Man I know, I tried linux about 3-4 months ago and it is getting so much better. If I wasn't on an nvidia card I would probably be running fedora full time.

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[–] idle@158436977.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've been on windows 11 for about a year now, so far I've noticed no difference from Windows 10 in terms of cracked games. Come to think of it, I haven't had a single game that didn't run.

[–] TSMKFail@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On Windows 11 for some games you have to get the pirate version. For me, my legit copy of NFS MW wouldn't install so I had to use a cracked version. In fact the only issues I've had with Windows 11 full stop are because of Nahemic.

[–] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

That is so sad.

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Good to hear.

[–] DarkTides@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I've been waiting for direct storage to make the move but games are taking so long to actually adopt it in masses to make me move on from Windows 10. I know directstorage is also supported on Windows 10, but had read it is supposed to be better on Windows 11.

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every time I think about updating to windows 11 I see something like this lol. first the vr thing and now pirated software not running properly?

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TBF it was during the first few months of release. I want to believe that it was just early release related bugs.

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

yeah I was thinking just the other day "oh it's probably fixed by now so it's okay to update" and then I see this today haha

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Switched to 11 when it came out and haven't looked back. I'm also one of those weirdos that uses Edge browser in Linux....

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Edge in Linux is a crime against humanity.

Repent sinner 😂

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Find me a browser that does vertical + pinned tabs as good as Edge does and I will repent ;)

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[–] _totally_toasted_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

this is the way...

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I've been on it since it released, and other than the UI differences, I haven't even noticed a difference. If anything, it's actually a bit faster.

[–] doleo@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The calendar flyout still can't show your agenda, like in Win10. The 'widget' section is still full of unremovable MSM spam. It still installs ad-ware on major updates.

I hate it because of that.

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not a fan of Microsoft's current implementation of widgets. I would just disable them entirely if possible.

[–] helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can turn off the widget button on the taskbar, but the Win+W keybind stays.

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's good enough for me. I don't ever hit that key combo for anything that I can think of. But maybe there's a way to unbind it.

[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could probably map it to something else with Microsoft powertoys, I think its keybinds take priority over system bindings since I used it to remap the window tiling shortcuts back when I Literally Ever opened my windows partition for anything except VR (I'd wipe it entirely, but I have an oculus headset and those barely work on Linux last I checked)

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[–] Fin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

nope. absolutely will only update when i "have" to

[–] huntr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Related question, any recommended way to "get" a copy of Windows 11? Assuming no glaring bugs

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've always used Rufus to download Windows ISOs. It should let you download the latest major Win 11 release. I just used it last week in fact to make a quick bootable USB at work to reimage a device with 11 on it.

[–] huntr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That gets a clean and uncracked copy I think?

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's not activated, if you need to activate it look up Microsoft Activation Scripts, should be a GitHub link

Edit: to properly answer your question, yes it should be clean and uncracked if you download through Rufus.

[–] huntr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awesome thanks. Sounds easy enough.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Here's the GitHub for the activation scripts. Takes like 30 seconds to do it. I'm amazed at how trivial its gotten to pirate Windows

[–] Awwab@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Does anyone else find it kind of funny that a Microsoft service is hosting code to let you use another Microsoft service.

[–] wason@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And don't forget that time that a Microsoft Support employee used MAS to activate a customer's Windows because the legal/official method wasn't working.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

I remember reading this. I found that hilarious

[–] MarionWheeler@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Even better, there’s been a case where Microsoft Support has used it themselves.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I realised this as I was pulling up the bookmark "Wait, doesn't Microsoft own GitHub now?" lol

I honestly don't think they care, as long as people are using Windows.

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

I don't think Microsoft cares since they shouldn't be making a lot of money from retail keys anyway. A majority of users get an activation key when they purchase their computer. And businesses use volume licensing. A small minority of people who pirate an activation key is not a lot of money lost in the big picture.

Also with the amount of telemetry going on in Win 11, the data they collect more than makes up for the slight loss in revenue.

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[–] ash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I’ve been running Elden Ring & Hogwarts legally and other games on Windows 11 and haven’t had any issues. Running 5800x3D & 3080 10GB

[–] pirat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like the performance issues have probably been ironed out then.

[–] ash@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

yeah it’s been pretty stable for me, no crashes, blue screens, or anything. You should be fine to update

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[–] Steinsprut@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been daily driving it since release, I don't recall any Win11 specific issues that happened to me, did a reinstall once due to CPU upgrade

Had to do some of my own tweaking of course, like removing that dumb new right click menu, but it just works.

idk, I guess I like being an early adopter, switched to Win8 even before 8.1 came out

5800X3D and 4070 (1070Ti initially) btw

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[–] doleo@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The calendar flyout still can't show your agenda, like in Win10. The 'widget' section is still full of unremovable MSM spam. It still installs ad-ware on major updates.

I hate it because of that.

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