Lol. Remember when W10 was to be the "final" one?

Huh, and I've never even used Windows 11...

with a 64-bit chip operating at a frequency of at least 1000 megahertz continuing to meet the requirements

Wrong. The requirement for Windows 11 is "processor introduced on the market after the year 2018, with absolutely no regards on its computational power" (with a single exception to the specific CPU of the $3500 Microsoft surface studio because they continued to sell the machine with the same old processor for five years)

For example an i7-7700K is "unsupported" but the much slower and with less features atom-based Celeron j4005 is "supported".

The hardware requirements are completely artificial and clearly decided in agreement with Intel and AMD in order to sell more new computers

Remember when Windows 10 was "the last operating system"?

KDE developers: okay so we're gonna switch to a floating taskbar so we look less like a Windows clone

Windows developers: hey guys I have a crazy idea

Already??? Windows 11 just came out

Key features include subscription fees, only-online capacity, baked in popup ads in every folder and directory, is slower than windows 7, and also streams your webcam to anyone who pays them enough.

/hj

Nah, this is pure speculation. The only source is Microsoft saying they are working on some next gen stuff, could just as well be a major upgrade to W11.

Are they going to let us move the damn taskbar this time?

According to the source, Microsoft wants to make the taskbar appear to float above the desktop by separating it from the desktop and rounding off the corners.

...why?

They are necessitating 8GB of RAM. for what?! Like, it would be a struggle to find a machine with less than 8GB still being sold new, sure, but why does the OS need that RAM?

Why do they insist on dicking around with the taskbar?

Tired of windows messing their UI every next monday? You will love linux!

So 2025 is the year I finally move my desktop to Linux and run windows in a VM I guess. I still have a few apps that just do not play nicely in Wine that would make transitioning fully more difficult, but I've been full Linux on my laptop for years. Maybe I can finally make the jump on PC.

I'm not usually a "Windows is terrible" kind of peron, but dramatically changing the main UI every 2 years is the fastest way to get me to change to Linux on my daily driver.

Apparently they're going to move the system files to their own protected partition in 12, first good Microsoft change?

why are the comments on most news articles on here so negative or cynical :(

I think the floating tasbar looks nice

Oh boy, it'll only run on brand new hardware! Gotta make sure it can run integrated, unswitch-offable OpenClippy GPT or whatever.

highly anticipated Windows 12

Microsoft wants to make the taskbar appear to float above the desktop by separating it from the desktop and rounding off the corners

Who gets excited about that!?

Plus, all the (always online, storing everything we say, type and look at) AI features should be looked at critically and not with high anticipation.

chromeOS meets early KDE4. Weird. I don't like Windows 11 either so but I managed to get rid of most of the crap. Should've gone for Windows 10 on my gaming machine but since I use Ubuntu 99% of the time, it's not worth the effort. At least I figured out how to install and use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. I'd rather depend on Steam on Linux than use a computer with a Microsoft account hooked in.

I'm seriously wondering if we've hit rock button in terms of UI flatness.

...and we'll be calling it windowsOS 12. It has a revolutionary taskbar which is so new that we gave it an innovative new name: Dack!

Will they actually manage to put all options in a single menu this time? Because it's hilarious that I have to use Options and the a Control Panel in Win11

Looks like chromeOS a bit.

These are just the pictures of windows 11, just they made the taskbar float off the bottom

It seems suicidal of Microsoft to release the simplistic version as the first pictures again though...

Unless something changes, there will be options to move the buttons to the left of the bar and make it look closer to older versions again. Of course they could decide not to go that route, but they did this exact same awful release with 11.

New Windows release already? Looks like Microsoft has realised that its old model of selling major upgrades was more profitable than the Windows 10 strategy.

It will be interesting to know how much AI integration it gets. To me, I think Microsoft will use it as an excuse for telemetry and personal data. They already explored ads on the OS, so I can imagine selling you stuff while trying to use AI tools while trying to do your work. May be a subscription to copilot.

They know that they capitalize can capitalize on AI faster than any major OS developer, but how much value will be given by the user?

laughs in ubuntu

Windows 11 still feels like a beta... Have they completely given up on quality?

I dunno how I feel about it. My desktop which is a port of 10-> 11 is fine. My laptop which is a w11 native, is all fucked up. The file path is c/wahots/Onedrive/desktop, and onedrive is broken, so I can't save files to certain directories. Even remapping directories doesn't work. It's a miserable experience. I'm thinking of backing up everything and getting some sort of clean license, as this Asus one is all fucked up.