Re: gave up and bought a edu windows computer /// Re: FT817 and iPad??
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There are 10s of millions of windows 11 users, but there are not 10s of millions of people complaining about problems with windows 11, why is that? Because people expect it to work fine, and when it does they rarely post or brag about it online. But if one person runs into a problem, they post about it and everyone that reads their complaint goes out and spreads that one incident as if it happened to them. (This was in full-effect when Icom had an issue with a batch of displays in their IC-7610. The actual percentage of units with the display issue was very low, but based on web reports you'd think the issue impacted 100% of units and people that were never in the market for a $2,500 radio suddenly took to the web to slam Icom and declare they would never buy an IC-7610.)
Every day major computer manufacturers ship thousands and thousands of Win11 devices, and sure, some corporate users will downgrade to win10, but the vast, vast majority stick with Win11 and they never feel the need to post "Win11 works great here!" Comments, unless the anti-Win11 FUD gets too loud, then they make a post like Ron, N4RRT did, noting zero issues in their personal experience.
Choosing to stick with Win10 is fine, it's still an actively-supported OS and will be for two more years. I personally know of no reason to upgrade besides wanting to have the latest/greatest, most up-to-date OS out there. (I've yet to see an application that required Win11, but to be honest I haven't really been looking for one either.)
A previous commenter mentioned incompatibilities with "major software" - I'm curious what specific software packages those are? I've had no issues with anything I've tried to run - radio programming software, digital mode software, ham radio suites, remote control software, and open source office suites. The only software I imagine would have issues would be software that was written for Windows XP and ran well up thru Win 7/10, but struggle with Win11 due to support being dropped for certain libraries or being targeted for a specific Windows OS level to fix a certain issue.
My personal 'stress test' for Windows 11 compatibility was installing Quicken 2014 on a new club laptop - it installed (from CD-ROM!) and is working perfectly.
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I am serious, I would be interested in hearing what major software packages are incompatible with Win11, but perhaps it would be best to continue this thread direct, off-list.
And Beta Testers finding issues is to be expected - beta testers choose to be exposed to software that the developers themselves don't feel is production-ready, that's why they have a Beta program.
