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Jul 13, 2023 16:06 |  #1

MS has been pestering me weekly to update my PC from W10 to W11. I have spent hours reading all the review sites and doing my due diligence as well as taken a look at the scant threads here on POTS and have nearly come to a decision. But one thing that all the review sites lack is the perspective from photographers and the few threads here seemed old and negative. So...


  1. Have you made the switch and what was your experience?
  2. Is it worth the change or are you frustrated.
  3. Does the new interface both you?
  4. Do all your tools still work? Mostly interested in the CC suite, Adobe Premier, and the Canon suite, DPP and EOS Utility
  5. What about other gotchas?
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Jul 13, 2023 16:52 |  #2

I had an old computer with Win 10 and bought a new Dell with Win 11.


  1. I made the switch, and found that MS cloud is turned on by default. I sucked up all my bandwidth because it decided to move everything to the cloud. Make sure that is off! The cloud works fine for me at work but I don't need it at home!
  2. Change happens, it didn't frustrate me except for it deciding it needed everything on the cloud. A recent update turned the cloud back on, and started saving my files there again, even though I used "Save As" and though I was saving to my local drive. I had to disable the cloud again.
  3. They moved some things around- it is accessed from a little icon that looks like 4 squares at the bottom of the screen (windows icon). Your apps and power are down there. Cut/copy/paste are little scissors, two overlaid squares, and a clipboard with a square. It takes some time getting used to it.
  4. CC works, and works better on a new computer. I can't say anything about the other software.
  5. I mentioned how it tries to move everything to the cloud, and when it gets full, it wants you to pay for more space.

I'm neutral on it.



  
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Jul 13, 2023 16:55 |  #3

Capn Jack wrote in post #19539959 (external link)
I had an old computer with Win 10 and bought a new Dell with Win 11.

  1. I made the switch, and found that MS cloud is turned on by default. I sucked up all my bandwidth because it decided to move everything to the cloud. Make sure that is off! The cloud works fine for me at work but I don't need it at home!
  2. Change happens, it didn't frustrate me except for it deciding it needed everything on the cloud. A recent update turned the cloud back on, and started saving my files there again, even though I used "Save As" and though I was saving to my local drive. I had to disable the cloud again.
  3. They moved some things around- it is accessed from a little icon that looks like 4 squares at the bottom of the screen (windows icon). Your apps and power are down there. Cut/copy/paste are little scissors, two overlaid squares, and a clipboard with a square. It takes some time getting used to it.
  4. CC works, and works better on a new computer. I can't say anything about the other software.
  5. I mentioned how it tries to move everything to the cloud, and when it gets full, it wants you to pay for more space.

I'm neutral on it.

I had the cloud thing happen on an old laptop I re-purposed. I did a clean install of W10 and when I looked, all my files were in the cloud. Not sure I like that, but I copied them all to the local disk and just use the cloud when I want to do file sharing between my various PCs.


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