Not a huge loss in my eyes, I see Win 11 as a strictly worse OS than Win 10. Haven't yet seen any feature whatsoever that strikes me as an improvement.
* Intel Thread Director support. Perhaps irrelevant because most people here are AMD fanbois, but it is a feature Windows 10 will not be receiving.
* Better support for high refresh rate monitors and variable refresh rate setups.
* Windows Subsystem for Android.
* More cohesive UI; Metro is slowly being phased out or changed to come back more in line with Explorer and the rest of the Windows UI.
* Better hardware and driver development support going forward. Windows 10 is officially on "extended support" with 22H2 being the last major release until the 2025 EOL.
That's a GPU driver thing.
More cohesive UI
You mean more useless UI. Changes that no real user wants, like rounded corners and excessive padding everywhere.
...and don't forget the increased spyware and requirements to use an online account to login.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
"Microsoft could opt for Windows 11 or Windows 12 in future, but if people upgrade to Windows 10 and the regular updates do the trick then everyone will just settle for just "Windows" without even worrying about the version number."
Windows 11 is fetid garbage. There is no improvement worth subjecting myself to it and never will be far as I can see. I will never install or use it. LTSC for now and the forseeable future for my use cases. Updates are only done if I deem them additive and not routine. Security is not my biggest red line anyway. Updates are a choice not an inevitability and retaining choice is my right as a user as well as my responsibility to exercise wisely. Forcing compliance is a bad way to get me to do things. TPM, UEFI, Attestation systems of any kind are used as I see fit only and how I deem acceptable.
I rue the slow march away from customization, self-administration, interoperability and the long walk toward closed systems with trusted components required to work and perform basic things. That approval of the gatekeepers. I will stay my own gatekeeper, thanks. Netflix can suck it, i'll torrent it instead if it won't work without golden keys.
All that stuff is really only the foundation for the long game of future-proofing revenue streams for content makers anyway. A means to exercise control over it and you using it.
Which requires a 12th generation CPU or newer. For those of us on a budget, that may not really apply. IIRC the cheapest one is the i5-12600KF at ~270USD. So maybe not that unaffordable.
> Better support for high refresh rate monitors and variable refresh rate setups.
Isn't this more to do with CPU/GPUs? I personally don't see this as a feature of a OS. This is also the first time I have heard of this.
> Windows Subsystem for Android.
Which *only works for apps on the AMAZON App Store*. Also known as functionally non existent for most of us. What a let down, and what a useless feature. Was very excited to do native testing of apps without an emulator of some description. They just had to vendor lock it. Wish I knew why, but pretty much everyone I know was quite bummed about it when they found out.
> More cohesive UI
In what world is the Windows 11 UI more cohesive? I have Windows10 for my home PC, and Windows11 for my work PC.
I can tell you exactly which UI is better, simply because one of them actually makes some bloody sense. They didn't even fix the hybrid settings menu mess with control panel. Or even allow opening multiple settings menus. The bloody start button starts in the middle! There are ads in the start menu for social media, ads in the start page for browsers. Task Manager's UI is literally broken, with non functional scaling.
I could list off a dozen other things just off of what I remember.
> Better hardware and driver development support going forward
Not relevant IMO. Not until Windows 10 leaves long term support anyway. This isn't a feature. Just like how Google abandoning your device; and you the customer being forced to move on isn't a "feature".