You're asking the wrong people. Everyone on here are sweaty for Linux.

No.

A Windows version becomes considered "good" the exact moment a next version is released. No sooner, no later. Those are the rules.

It's fine for Windows, I guess. They've made a bunch of UI improvements that I actually kind of liked. But they still try and force you to setup a Microsoft account when you install. And telemetry is hardly consensual. I think I turned off what I could by rooting around for privacy settings, but it still sends things like crash reports without asking.

I don't trust it. Just use it for games.

Since the question implies a change of state - I'm going to go with a no.

I have been using Windows 11 pro since it came out and it's fine. I'm not sure why windows is obsessed with trying to replace their older, functional menus with the new style settings apps (which usually just lead back to the old style ones) but I never get reinstalled bloat, ads, or anything remotely like people are complaining about.

For reference I do powershell for a living and use ArchLinux at work, and have windows 11 and arch machines at home, but use windows the most at home.

Not until they bring back the “never combine” taskbar option. What a dumb idea to omit it for years and not expect push back. You had one job Microsoft.

I still can't drag files to the task bar to open them with a particular program. Tabs on file explorer are a thing, but they don't behave predictabily so I almost never use them.

Overall still feels like a downgrade, but I'd have updated regardless just to get the little "update available" message to go away

Never will be my friend.

Use Linux.

No. I reverted back to Windows 10 Pro for my gaming machine after Windows 11 Pro prompted me that it was "international bubble tea day". Don't get me wrong, I love bubble tea, I just don't care for these distractions when I'm trying to use my PC.

Depends on what you mean by decent.

For privacy it's shit, it collects a bunch of data that's sent to MS. It also serves text ads on the lock screen, which might annoy you.

They also push their own products too much, like Bing AI and Edge, and sometimes an update can mess with the default apps, wich is annoying.

If you don't care about those things it's fine, doesn't get too much in the way of you doing what you want to do most of the time. I use it mainly because of gaming, but I can't tell you much about its performance because I have a powerful PC so everything runs just fine.

The start menu was dumbed down recently to a poor KDE clone, but I personally don't mind since I wasn't using it anyway.

I only changed from windows 11 to Linux mint there over the weekend. I was sick of having to update the laptop every day when I wanted to shut it down

No.

Lol

Bought days gone (game) on steam. Would not launch on windows 11. Tried to get a refund. But it had been two weeks. Launch d it on my steam deck and it worked great.

So. No.... It's sucks.

I got an ad even though I have all ad service things turned off. It came via my messages tray. It was for some screenshot app Microsoft wanted me to use.

If this doesn't answer your question, I can't be of much help.

Yep. Especially if you are just a regular user who likes gaming. Features like auto HDR and better support for 4k monitors are what made me love it over win 10. There are things that still annoy users but there is also a lot to like. I'm a fan of the centered Taskbar and the improvement to the right click menu.

Also if you are a power user there is always something you can download to fix annoyances. Just like Linux, win 10/7, there is always stuff to tweak and modify. If none of that really is your thing though you will be just fine as it has the easiest experience out of the box atm.

I use it on my gaming laptop and I like it. The UI looks more like my phone.

Only reasons for using it are games and work

It's fine for Windows. I highly recommend coughing up the money for the pro version so you actually control some of the OS, since MS decided to remove things like the group policy editor from regular users. You'll need that if you don't want Windows shoving updates down your throat all the time.

I like the UI more then Windows 10. I don't know why reddit had such a hard on for 10 but 11 is much faster and more responsive than 10 was.

No and it will never be

Use tiny11 builder from ntdevlabs on GitHub and Chris Titus's windows toolkit (from GitHub too) to clean things up further. But if you are putting so much effort might as well use linux

It’s been pretty alright for me, actually. Both with gaming and development using WSL2.