This is basically why I went to linux around the time of Vista. The amount of hurdles windows puts in your way is silly.
However, it's odd for the OS to work and Steam then not to work. I wonder if the windows store protections have been disabled?
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When I tried the early free upgrade from Window 10 to 11, half my games wouldn't work, and I couldn't fix the UI to what was comfortable. Also all the control panels had another layer of simplified facade before it would let me see the Windows XP control panel window.
Also the games that worked had a significant framerate drop.
I swtched back after a day of frustration and every once in a while my Windows 10 nags me to try upgrading again because Win11 is much better.
I need to stop being a coward and make my switch to Linux.
I'll need to find an equivalent to Autohotkey though. I'm left handed and depend on keyboard profiles to play games.
Never used W11. W10 works about 100x better than Linux and doesn't require me to memorize commands to punch into the CLI for mundane tasks or have 11 different types of program install processes.
I daily Linux for privacy reasons but you're delusional if you think Linux is easier to use.
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What were you doing? The windows 11 install is so simple compared to even the windows 7 one. Where you messing with things to bypass the Microsoft login or something?
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Took me 2 days to break my work laptop and now my brightness slider is gone. Absolutely hate it.
Yes. My previous job used Linux (and OpenVPN), but I started a new job recently, which involves Windows 10 (and three separate VPN apps) on my workstation, and it's driving me insane! I can't even find half the settings in looking for, the start menu is a mess (until I found OpenShell which introduces an XP like start menu!), and the eternal requests to restart the damn thing. It drives me nuts.
Oh you installed Windows 11? That's your problem right there. Go back to Windows 10