Building New Rig for Flight Sim: Win 10 or 11

[Cavemanhead]

Building a new rig and may install OS as early as this weekend.  I'm generally not one to use a new OS and particularly since the Win 10 telemetry mess which I can only imagine is more so with Win 11.  That said, are there any arguments FOR using Win 11?

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

I would definitely go 11 if a new cpu. The latest OS tends to be most optimized for the latest hardware and I'd say 11 is now mostly stable and getting better. It's also a much better OS IMO.

[senseispcc]

Win 11 is improving and a little faster with the game!

[AEthelraedUnraed]

If you're building a brand new PC, I'd definitely go for Win11. Win10 is going end-of-life in about 2.5 years, so you'll have to upgrade before that anyway. Best save yourself a lot of trouble later on by installing Win11 out-of-the-box rather than going through the hassle of upgrading.

 

Regarding the OS itself, it looks and behaves pretty much like Win10 (especially if you move the start menu button to the bottom left corner, which was the first thing I did on my Win11 work PC). It also has some nice features compared to Win10; e.g. something that I personally like is the ability to run GUI applications under Windows Subsystem for Linux.

[ShamrockOneFive]

I went to Win 11 with my new PC build. I usually go with the latest OS whatever it happens to be and if you're buying a new CPU (like I did) you need Windows 11 for the scheduler or you'll hamstring the performance of your system. Windows 10 doesn't know what to do with big and little cores.

 

It took a bit of adjustment but that's par for the course. IL-2 runs great.

[RyanR]

Zero trouble with Win 11 running IL-2 and all kinds of workstation software..... Maya, ZBrush, Creative Cloud, 32GB voxel/polygon datasets in specialty software.

 

There are some UX niggles that MS put in, but whatever.

 

-Ryan

[S10JlAbraxis]

Using Win 11 with no problems at all.  Very stable and havent had a single blue screen or any other problems.  Sim performance is equivlent or slightly better than Win 10. Transitioning from 10 to 11 is easy as the changes are largley minimal. Just make sure to turn off all the data gathering options under privacy.  

[PatrickAWlson]

First thing: I would never advocate putting old software on a new system except for very explicit circumstances.  It is IMHO a path to problems.

 

Having said that, I  was running Win 10 until about 30 minutes ago.  I had previously abandoned the upgrade because of the need to enable TPM.  This thread motivated me to try again.  Microsoft's instructions are pretty clear for a change, so enabling TPM went well.  Then I ran into an issue where I passed the health check but my upgrade screen still said that my computer was not  properly configured.  The solution to that problem was to download the Win 11 installer from Microsoft instead of upgrading from Settings.  Took less than an hour for the upgrade to proceed and it went (seemingly) flawlessly.  After the upgrade my system really does feel like it performs better.  Everything from opening Eclipse to doing things in Chrome seems a bit faster.

[kissTheSky]

I’m at the “still on the fence” crowd, despite running W11 since early December. 
 

One thing I did different compared to all, I installed W11 on a (new) build offline so I have a local account instead of having to go with Microsoft’s “online” account. Now, every once in a while, I have IL-2 and iRacing crash to desktop with dll problems, while windows repair saying everything’s fine. 
 

I have yet to reinstall windows with the online account setup, but just throwing it out there as a data point. 

[RyanR]

22 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

After the upgrade my system really does feel like it performs better. 

 

 

Nothing like a squeaky clean (or relatively so) registry. I had the same experience upgrading a Win 7 laptop to Win 10. By that stage, the laptop had become a test bed for trying out new software, with lots of install/uninstalls... it was a bit moody at the end of its Win 7 days. Windows 10 perked it up a bit. I was surprised.'

 

I do get frustrated with MS's online accounting. I feel like an OS should "stand alone". I run Office/Sharepoint/whatever from work on my own computers. Windows is fine 99% of the time, but occasionally gets weird trying to resolve several "ID's" on the same machine.

 

-Ryan

[dburne]

Windows 11 - hands down.