7ambda wrote:
abraker wrote:
If the law of good-bad-good-bad cycle of windows releases holds, this is going to be the bad release
Wonder how this holds up now that 11 is officially released.
Holds up exactly like the picture states :p Start menu lost years of customization ability (you can't even move it to the sides or hide the clock), Ryzen performance is still all over the place (took half a month for MS to redo the L3 cache fix on Release that they already did a month ago on Dev builds, and it's still lower and inconsistent when benched), context menus take an extra click to do anything useful, and it manages to break Oculus VR in the oddest manner I've ever seen (frames drop after exactly 25 seconds unless you show the console window).
The worst for me is how it also forces real-time Windows Defender scanning, without any sane option to disable it. On 10, disabling this kept it off permanently, whereas in 11 it re-enables after 2 minutes no matter how you disable it (GUI, group policy, registry), unless you go butcher some files and/or delete the entire Defender service. I can understand why most people would benefit from the real-time scanner, but I only run Windows for VR and gaming, and that real-time scanning noticeably hits performance with
everything, even with a NVMe SSD. That lack-of control of being able to turn it off also bothers me more than I care for.
And then it manages to do all of this without any real benefit. Nothing uses DirectStorage, and the Android app runner is only just now in some limited beta. Auto HDR is the only interesting feature to me, and my GPU doesn't handle HDR with my display properly anyway. Performance is on-par (or worse) to a properly set-up Windows 10 install, unless you're using the single Intel architecture 11 was designed for (Alder Lake).
This is the first Windows release where I can't justify any reason to switch to it, and I've used Windows since 95/98 days. ME, Vista, and 8 were a cakewalk compared to 11.
For osu!, I can't imagine any direct issues though (didn't try it personally). It should still start and run fine. Certain tweaks related to cursor acceleration and frame timing with full-screen optimizations
may differ though (I've heard you can't disable full-screen optimizations at all anymore on 11).