General consensus on Windows 11

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With Windows 10 EoL right around the corner, Windows 11 finally surpassing Windows 10, and [Windows 11 25H2](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/get-ready-for-windows-11-version-25h2/4426437) on it's way, what's the general consensus of Windows 11? Side note: Win 11 25H2 will share the same servicing branch as 24H2, so upgrades will be quick with an enablement package, but I don't know if that's a good thing at this point.

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CajunDreDog@reddit

Do all the versions of Win11 not update quick with the enablement feature? We're planning on going to 23H2, just cause I've seen lot of ppl with issues in 24H2. Then prob go to 25H2 later on. Am I planning this wrong?

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PDQ_Brockstar@reddit (OP)

Windows 11 23H2 is a different servicing branch than 24H2 and 25H2. If you decide to go with 23H2 first, then you'll have to do a full upgrade to either 24H2 or 25H2 later. If you go to 24H2 now, then you can eventually use an enablement package to go to 25H2.

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CajunDreDog@reddit

Frick man this sucks. Is the upgrade as long as going from Win10 to Win11 or shorter? I'm at a hospital, having pc's down for long periods is not optimal.

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CaptainFluffyTail@reddit

First big endpoint OS EOL? 10 year cycle so you'll go through this again and again in business, even if you are not directly involved the second and subsequent times. >what's the general consensus of Windows 11? If you're in a Microsoft shop and not running LTSC you should be be on 11 if it is supported by your LOB applications. It is functional enough. There may be a training period where people adjust to the new Start menu style. Make the jump now so you have a few months to iron out the issues that pop-up. I work in manufacturing and we still have ~1,200 machines worldwide that need to upgrade to 11 but cannot due to TPM chip. Budget shenanigans to re-allocate money to buy hardware earlier than planed but thankfully I'm not responsible for that. Getting vendor "support" for Windows 11 without having to upgrade the LOB software is the bigger challenge. We're doing a lot of internal justifications about "this just runs in the browser and the browser is supported..." but still a headache.

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D1TAC@reddit

It’ll be awhile before I allow 25H2 to get installed on end users machines. 24H2 broke a few things for my end users, so it would be a staged roll out. I like Windows 11 when we remove all the bloat; and it’s a clean install. Functions like it should. I feel like it’s a memory hog. Almost as if you have to toggle 16GB memory as a hidden requirement.

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awkwardnetadmin@reddit

To be fair 16GB has gotten so cheap I honestly feel like that is a minimum I would order on anything new these days for a workstation. Even an older personal laptop I have that is still on Windows 10 I have 32GB and Chrome will take advantage of a dozen or more GB if it is available. That being said I agree with your assessment to not jump to a new build before you really need to. For most software updates are dictated by when a new CVE requires you to update or a rare case of something that depends upon updating it.

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MedicatedDeveloper@reddit

We moved to 32gb for Windows 11. We were having so many issues with 16gb for our more demanding users. It's so much more responsive with extra breathing room.

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PDQ_Brockstar@reddit (OP)

Yeah, their minimum requirement of 4gb seems pretty optimistic.

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frac6969@reddit

We upgraded to Windows 11 then upgraded from 8 GB to 16 GB. TBH we noticed minimal differences and some computers we just left at 8 GB because lazy.

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IWantsToBelieve@reddit

I think this may just be a misunderstanding of modern memory management... If it's there it will use it.

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thefpspower@reddit

I know this is how it works but it honestly feels really counter-productive because it hits 90% so fast that its constantly swapping and the disk gets hammered, everything feels slow at that point. And I'm pretty sure that Windows 11 became more of a hug because it uses more VRAM per monitor, so machines with integrated graphics on 8GB of RAM feel really slow to me.

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rms141@reddit

>24H2 broke a few things for my end users, so it would be a staged roll out. It was supposed to. Microsoft retired some legacy subsystems in 24H2. Of all the updates, that was the one you actually needed to RTFM and test with. 25H2 is basically a patch that will activate features that Microsoft is shipping already but in disabled state. Less disruptive.

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