In this article, we will review another threat to Open Software Development – the Windows 11 garbage dump – the most bloated and insecure operating system ever created.
Windows 11 is a garbage dump of a program with two control panels, two (or more) web browsers and over 100 million lines of code. Windows 11 is so bloated that Microsoft was forced to raise the minimum hard drive size from 32 GB to 64 GB. Even 64 GB may not be enough after adding a few Windows updates which due to ever increasing security problems are getting bigger and bigger all the time. The Windows Hardware Requirements page openly admits: “Extra storage space might be required to download updates.”
Microsoft released Windows 11 on October 5, 2021 - marking the beginning of the end of Windows 10. It was also the beginning of the end for near any computer that is less than two years old as Microsoft announced that Windows 11 will only support Intel 8th Gen processors. This Windows 11 requirement eliminates over 90% of the computers in the world!
If you have a two year old computer, you will see a warning like this on your computer:
What Microsoft is forcing us to do is spend a thousand dollars or more buying new computers.
Even if you have a new computer with lots of space on your hard drive, you can still be subjected to major problems. As just one example, in October 2022, with the release of the October update, many administrators have taken to the Microsoft community forum to report problems. “All of our remote desktop users using Windows 11 are having problems [...] It just hangs at connecting.”
As reported by Bleeping Computer, the nature of the problem also appears to differ from user to user; some are having trouble with initial connection, while others are being disconnected mid-session or experiencing freezing issues.
There are a couple of videos on YouTube that summarize some of the worst problems with Windows 11. This 12 minute video has more than 1.2 million views and 12,000 comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg5xJtmCZbI
Here are a few of the comments:
Welcome to 2021: Where updates make your experience worse instead of improving it.
I noticed that things are slower, especially during boot it takes a much longer time to get into windows.
Someone needs to come up with a new OS that doesn't require a Computer Science degree to configure.
They aren't fixing anything that's broke, they're just breaking new stuff! Hoping I can run my (extensive) Steam library on Linux.
One issue I had is when using the option in settings to remove temporary files, it actually deleted my entire windows folder and I had to do a fresh install of windows. I lost everything on my main drive because of it.
Since installing Windows 11 my CPU core temperature has increased to an average of forty degrees centigrade when running U-Tube in Microsoft Edge.
I have noticed not only the loss of performance but I also have had my laptop freeze multiple times while just normal tasking like watching videos to browsing the web.
Since downloading windows 11, nothing but constant crashes. It’s been an awful experience and now I don’t know what to do
My windows boot.efi corrupted 6 months ago. tried fixing it, all repairs failed. threw my hands up and installed linux. It works flawlessly.
I’m so glad I switched to Linux.
This next video, called “Windows 11: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is 14 minutes long and has 519,000 views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH0bAeEm1Jw
Here are a couple of screen shots from this video:
As we explain in the next article, Windows 11 is forcing us to use UEFI BIOS instead of Legacy BIOS… bad because UEFI places a remote kill switch on your computer!
The author of the video concluded:
“This is an absolute disgrace and an aspect of the ugly side of Windows 11… The hardware constraints are shameful… It will result in hundreds of millions of computers going to landfills. We are all victims of monopoly.”
Finally, Windows 11 not only requires UEFI BIOS but it requires Secure Boot. Neither of these offers any security benefit.
Both Secure Boot and UEFI make it easier for hackers to remotely lock up your PC. We will review the drawbacks of UEFI and Secure Boot in our next article.
Thankfully, there is another option. You can end your Microsoft Addiction and gain your computer freedom by learning how to convert your current computer to a Linux computer.
What’s Next?
If you are still not convinced that you should use Linux instead of Windows 11, please take a few minutes to read the next article, where we review the ugly history of UEFI and Secure Boot.