Rolled Back to Windows 10

After using Windows 11 for more than month. I went back to Windows 10 yesterday.

This is the 3rd Windows I blew away, over the past two decades. The others being, Vista and 8.

Observations from use

  1. Not as reliable yet for production use. The reliability history was riddled with errors, not previously in 10. Also, freezing on the desktop. This never happened with Windows 10.
  2. UI is a step back from Windows 10. Dumbed down start menu, buried context menus, etc.
  3. Other issues, like strange, intermittent Microsoft sign in problems.
  4. Gaming seemed less in Windows 11 (FPS). I am not sure if it’s my imagination. Or perhaps, an unoptimized driver for the older card?

I might install Windows 11 again, in a year or two from now.

Windows 11 is honestly not bad, it just needs another year of refining, patching, and finessing. It might be perfect then!

Note:

My PC is a 2018, Dell XPS 8930 with an I7-8700, 16GB RAM and GTX 1060. It meets all the requirements and is not the issue.

Thurrott