Got bored and installed Windows 11

SpyderTracks

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I woke up at 5.30 this morning and was bored, so I went through hacking the windows 11 installer ISO to get it installed on my 2014 i7 4770k laptop.

All working fine and receiving updates successfully.

Performance is perfectly normal, no slow downs I can detect although haven't tried any gaming as yet.

I couldn't get any method other than a clean install to work.

But am happy with it, I'm liking Windows 11, the interface is much cleaner and more streamlined.
 
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Report back in a few weeks to let us know if things are still rosy! I'm still on the fence (also away from my PC) so there's no rush for me :D
 
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TonyCarter

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I've got an ageing Mac here with an i7 4790K here...wonder whether a W11 install will give it a new life when I come to retire it?

Not sure if W11 (or W10) supports the 5K monitor - which seems to run as 2 vertical 1440p monitors in W7, as you can see one side of the screen load before the other (only on startup or when you have driver issues).
 
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First thing which is minor but does make a big difference, system sounds are absolutely superb, quite subtle which makes them much more usable IMHO.

Performance is the same as Windows 10, no change for me, no slowdown.

Menu's sometimes take a bit of getting used to.

Driver support actually for my laptop appears better than windows 10. On Win 10, I couldn't install the latest wifi and bluetooth driver without a bluescreen, so was running off a really old one. Every boot I had to manually connect wifi as it wouldn't autoconnect. That's all resolved in Win 11, connect automatically every boot. Also running my Windows 7? Control Center without any issue.

Really happy with it so far.
 
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TonyCarter said:
I've got an ageing Mac here with an i7 4790K here...wonder whether a W11 install will give it a new life when I come to retire it?

Not sure if W11 (or W10) supports the 5K monitor - which seems to run as 2 vertical 1440p monitors in W7, as you can see one side of the screen load before the other (only on startup or when you have driver issues).
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Is that on integrated graphics? It's not the OS that's the limitation but the iGPU.
 
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TonyCarter

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SpyderTracks said:
Is that on integrated graphics? It's not the OS that's the limitation but the iGPU.
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No, it's got a 4GB AMD Radeon R9 M295X - it was the biggest, baddest iMac you could get at the time.

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RichardL

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Still enjoying it? I've had zero issues with it myself which is my I chose it with my new PCS build.

Have got a boxed Windows 10 with serial if ever needed mind you.
 
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RichardL said:
Still enjoying it? I've had zero issues with it myself which is my I chose it with my new PCS build.

Have got a boxed Windows 10 with serial if ever needed mind you.
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I would have upgraded by now if I had supported hardware, but all my machines don't support windows 11, it's completely strict on the CPU and motherboards that it will install to, will actively block installation to anything older than 8th Gen Intel and requires TPM 2.0 on the motherboard, neither of which my hardware has. So you have to do some fiddling to get it installed on older hardware.

Worth it though. Won't do it on my server as that has critical applications and needs to be on officially supported OS.
 
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techguyone

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I'm using win 11 with absolutely no issues except some video editing software doesn't seem to be compatible yet.

I simply installed winallback to make the task bar and start menu 'normal' and all is really good.
 
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techguyone said:
I'm using win 11 with absolutely no issues except some video editing software doesn't seem to be compatible yet.

I simply installed winallback to make the task bar and start menu 'normal' and all is really good.
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Yeah, there are still a few professional packages that aren't fully compatible, Pro Tools for example are infamous for taking ages to release updates for new OS's.

But most are compatible out of the box.

I'm loving windows 11, so far, everything about it for me is an improvement, just the feel of it generally feels far more polished and fluid.
 
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Tron1982 said:
So, do you think we can suggest now to chose win11 for spec suggestion ?
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I've already been recommending it for gaming systems, it's only professional applications like Audio and Editing / animation where it's still got some outstanding bugs or professional apps haven't been updated yet for it.

They're releasing the first major version update in July I think, which from developers looks to contain a huge number of very important fixes for professional applications.

www.techadvisor.com

Windows 11 22H2 update: Everything you need to know

The 22H2 update is now available for all Windows 11 hardware, but the latest version has been causing app crashes on some devices
www.techadvisor.com www.techadvisor.com

But for gaming / general use, it's pretty solid I think, I'm sure there are still people with bugs, but I think they do seem to have certainly corrected some of the more major ones.
 
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