What's everyone's opinion on Windows 11?
What's everyone's opinion on Windows 11?
It varies greatly depending on who you talk to. Recently a demo launched featuring DirectStorage achieved impressive speeds—almost 30 seconds down to under 2 seconds. Comparisons showed 22.5 seconds with traditional SATA HDDs and just 1.9 seconds with NVMe paired with DirectStorage. This represents a significant improvement, though the extremes remain: HDDs with DirectStorage take 21.5 seconds, SATA SSDs 4.5 seconds, NVMe SSDs 2.1 seconds. Even with DirectStorage on NVMe, real-world gains are minimal—only about 0.2 seconds over other options. Adding roughly 10 frames per second to a game already running at 500 FPS feels negligible. Loading times matter less in single-player games unless the developer is known for quality. In open worlds, seamless loading is common even with slower drives. Multiplayer games see less impact from loading delays compared to the tiny difference between your own storage and others'. DirectStorage is expected to be integrated into Windows 11, with optimizations for storage efficiency. The actual performance gap between DirectStorage and older methods is likely just a fraction—perhaps under 0.1 seconds—so the difference probably goes unnoticed unless someone experiences it firsthand.
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Also, considering MS's decision to phase out support for many current Windows users on systems lacking TPM 2.0 seems dismissive of existing customers. It appears MS may have relaxed its requirements, but I’m not too interested in verifying this after being let down by Windows 11 initially.