Growing dissatisfaction with Windows 11
By all accounts, Windows 11 is a total wreck of an operating system. It continues to be riddled with bugs, 3 years since its inception, many of which seem to appear out of thin air with each new update. Since Windows is now set to automatically receive and apply most updates, lots of users woke up 7 days ago to find their File Explorer totally unresponsive.
KB5051987 is the security update for Windows 11 24H2 which has been attributed to these File Explorer woes. That being said, this isn’t really anything new. Windows 11 has been described as a slow, buggy mess practically since day one. It includes even more telemetry than its predecessor and also brings to fruition a bunch of the “advanced AI tools” that every company has been trying to shoehorn into their products. One well-known vulnerability with the Windows .theme file has been unsuccessfully patched three times and still remains an issue (source: Help Net Security).
As it stands, there is absoutely no reason to use Windows 11 in favor of Windows 10. Make no mistake, however: Windows 10 is also a piece of garbage that should be avoided at all costs. Microsoft has obviously become too big to fail and no longer cares about producing a reliable operating system. Naturally, this means that, if you are interested in maintaining any degree of reliability, it’s time to either move away from Windows or confine yourself to an outdated release of the software.
Windows 10 is already slated to reach the end of support from Microsoft on 14 October of this year. (Compare this to XP, which had nearly 8 years of mainstream support.) The future of Windows marketing is obviously going to be in the form of a subscription-based model to the likes of Office 365, which is more profitable than a one-time license. So, if you don’t want to keep having to wait for updates to be rolled back, consider migrating to a FOSS distribution of Linux, or, if you don’t want to have to use Wine, stick with an old release of Windows! There’s really no good reason not to.
Despite popular consensus, there is no legitimate reason for most users to abandon some of the outdated releases of Windows. If anything, there exists more reason to use said releases in favor of their more recent, “up-to-date” counterparts, especially if you are have any interest in conversing system resources. I personally use Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, which is really just a repackaged version of Windows Server 2003 x64. Using kernel extensions and open-source softwares, XP x64 can be made fully functional. I intend to write more about this next time around.