Post #4923339 · Elektrine

2026-10-04 17:01 UTC

Maybe it’s because I neutered my W11 and only dual boot to launch the occasional game, but… I haven’t had significant issues with W11? Not that I can remember over the past two years. No broken updates, no weird copilot things, no excessive background usage, nothing. The only issue I had was the LG monitor thing that tried to install Mcafee, but that was LG’s fault. I find this remarkable, because to me it means, Windows doesn’t have to be junk, yet they deliberately configure it that way, and make it extremely difficult to undo. I used a slew of tools setting it up, but I’d have no idea where to start without them.

Replies (4)

@BCsven@lemmy.ca 2026-10-04 17:34

I have experienced all of that on my work machine. Its a mess of breakage and glitches and background stalls. Group policy initially stopped copilot but now its back again… And its always just enough to mess up your mouse flow

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@hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-04 17:36

Any neutering tool recommendations?

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@Bluefruit@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 18:03

I think a lot of the issues people experience on windows can be mitigated by disabling certain things or as you said “neutering” it. Back when I used windows 10 as my main OS, I did a lot of modification to make it better and it was alright, but windows 11 has also experienced a lot more bugs and criticism just being generally worse. Worse resource management, less user freedom, more tracking, more ai, newer CPU requirements, and that’s all just off the top of my head.

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@LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-04 21:10

Maybe it’s because I neutered my W11 and only dual boot to launch the occasional game or Windows specific driver Yes, it’s that. If you’d use it as your daily driver, you would notice. I do tech support at work and there’s hardly a month that goes by without a Win 11 machine sitting on my desk that has - miraculously! - fucked-up drivers or other issues after an “update”.

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