ccronk wrote on 2024-03-18, 02:06:
Windows 11, the more I use it, has shown to be an annoying buggy dumpster fire of an os. I'm thinking of downgrading to 10.
Honestly? I wouldn't bother. Most of the bad stuff in Windows 11 (except for the stupid context menu) has been backported to Windows 10 now. Bonus, you only have 18 months of Windows 10 left anyway, and the only way to downgrade is a complete re-install. Plus, Windows 10 does not tolerate 4GB ram and eMMC much better than Windows 11 does.
It's a pity. If Microsoft added the CPU Scheduler from Windows 11 (needed for asymmetric multiprocessing) to Windows 10 LTSC 2021 and restored it's 10 year lifecycle: it would be pretty much a perfect* OS. No AI, no adverts, no bloatware - literally nothing more than a stable, reliable OS to build from.
Now would be a great time to explore something like Mint Mate. Relatively efficient, and has support till 2027; plus the next version is likely to be fine on your machine too. Obviously the software installable on a low-resource linux are not the same as Windows 11, but it's an option.
* As far as contemporary Windows is concerned anyway. It's a source of some irritation to me that MacOS has been going downhill since 10.4, Windows since 2000 and most Linux distributions since April 6th 2011 (if you know, you know). General software quality has improved, mostly. But the UX quality has been on a death spiral. Anyway. off-topic.