▲ 111 ▼ AI PCs aren't driving sales — The need to upgrade from Windows 10 will drive 2025 laptop sales (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 2 years ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (2 children) I'm switching to Linux before I ever touch win11 permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children) Just got a W11 laptop new from work, (replacing a dead W10 machine). It is such a mess. It is trying hard to be a modern desktop like KDE Plasma or GNOME, but without a cohesive setup. And bluescreened twice already, had a WebApp failure error, and locked up completely another time at login. This is brand-new Out of the Box. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] daellat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) That sounds like a faulty install or machine. Win11 has issues but that's not a regular experience that you're describing permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I would have thought so too but a few colleagues had a few bluescreens, and the machines are not all the same make or model. permalink fedilink source parent [–] keyez@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Happened a lot for my win11 laptop my company refreshed for me. 16GB dell laptop and WSL running plus zoom, firefox and obsidian and it kept getting blue screens for running out of memory. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Lmao epic, thanks windows permalink fedilink source parent [–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Hmmm. I don't really like Windows myself and haven't setup a machine without for me in one a decade. But neither my work "development" laptop (in quotation marks because I'm not a developer) nor a mini PC I installed for my dad ever had bluescreens. They can still happen, of course... but it almost seems to require effort with really bad drivers or broken hardware. The obvious Windows issues nowadays are a different category from 20 years ago in my opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They still happen even on W10, but we support a lot of customers, that have a lot of users, so I probably encounter them more than a person with one or two PCs ( just statistically) Often it were would be network or monitor connection. HP workstations laptops I could blue screen consistently by plugging in my phone set to USB network tether. Immediate NDIS bluescreen. I don't blame windows 100% for that, it just didn't like seeing a new network device in the Kernel permalink fedilink source parent [–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago zorin os baby permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children) Just got a W11 laptop new from work, (replacing a dead W10 machine). It is such a mess. It is trying hard to be a modern desktop like KDE Plasma or GNOME, but without a cohesive setup. And bluescreened twice already, had a WebApp failure error, and locked up completely another time at login. This is brand-new Out of the Box. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] daellat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) That sounds like a faulty install or machine. Win11 has issues but that's not a regular experience that you're describing permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I would have thought so too but a few colleagues had a few bluescreens, and the machines are not all the same make or model. permalink fedilink source parent [–] keyez@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Happened a lot for my win11 laptop my company refreshed for me. 16GB dell laptop and WSL running plus zoom, firefox and obsidian and it kept getting blue screens for running out of memory. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Lmao epic, thanks windows permalink fedilink source parent [–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Hmmm. I don't really like Windows myself and haven't setup a machine without for me in one a decade. But neither my work "development" laptop (in quotation marks because I'm not a developer) nor a mini PC I installed for my dad ever had bluescreens. They can still happen, of course... but it almost seems to require effort with really bad drivers or broken hardware. The obvious Windows issues nowadays are a different category from 20 years ago in my opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They still happen even on W10, but we support a lot of customers, that have a lot of users, so I probably encounter them more than a person with one or two PCs ( just statistically) Often it were would be network or monitor connection. HP workstations laptops I could blue screen consistently by plugging in my phone set to USB network tether. Immediate NDIS bluescreen. I don't blame windows 100% for that, it just didn't like seeing a new network device in the Kernel permalink fedilink source parent
[–] daellat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children) That sounds like a faulty install or machine. Win11 has issues but that's not a regular experience that you're describing permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I would have thought so too but a few colleagues had a few bluescreens, and the machines are not all the same make or model. permalink fedilink source parent [–] keyez@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Happened a lot for my win11 laptop my company refreshed for me. 16GB dell laptop and WSL running plus zoom, firefox and obsidian and it kept getting blue screens for running out of memory. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago I would have thought so too but a few colleagues had a few bluescreens, and the machines are not all the same make or model. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] keyez@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago Happened a lot for my win11 laptop my company refreshed for me. 16GB dell laptop and WSL running plus zoom, firefox and obsidian and it kept getting blue screens for running out of memory. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Lmao epic, thanks windows permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Hmmm. I don't really like Windows myself and haven't setup a machine without for me in one a decade. But neither my work "development" laptop (in quotation marks because I'm not a developer) nor a mini PC I installed for my dad ever had bluescreens. They can still happen, of course... but it almost seems to require effort with really bad drivers or broken hardware. The obvious Windows issues nowadays are a different category from 20 years ago in my opinion. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They still happen even on W10, but we support a lot of customers, that have a lot of users, so I probably encounter them more than a person with one or two PCs ( just statistically) Often it were would be network or monitor connection. HP workstations laptops I could blue screen consistently by plugging in my phone set to USB network tether. Immediate NDIS bluescreen. I don't blame windows 100% for that, it just didn't like seeing a new network device in the Kernel permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They still happen even on W10, but we support a lot of customers, that have a lot of users, so I probably encounter them more than a person with one or two PCs ( just statistically) Often it were would be network or monitor connection. HP workstations laptops I could blue screen consistently by plugging in my phone set to USB network tether. Immediate NDIS bluescreen. I don't blame windows 100% for that, it just didn't like seeing a new network device in the Kernel permalink fedilink source parent