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I really like Windows 11. Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about, as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten. It's better to view this as a Windows 10 Refresh with alot done behind the scenes and a new UI. Not much of this is talked about though, outside of really niche highly technical circles.

There's some false narrative about it which is bizarre.

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> Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about, as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten

Maybe be the change you want to see... Try talking about those things.

I've heard nothing about either one, do you have an article or articles? Microsoft hasn't done a very good job communicating the non-UI changes. Insiders have measured performance losses but no significant gains yet.

Hard to call people criticizing other things a "false narrative" when there's been near no communication on the things you're bringing up, and they don't mitigate the complaints.

Can't think of a single "MASSIVE" update since transition to win7 64bit.

It's all fluff for what it is.

There basically hasn't been a good reason to upgrade windows other than arbitrary security update cutoffs, and mostly arbitrary caps to max DirectX version you can run.

I wouldn't be surprised if it would be a downright downgrade overall performance and responsiviness wise.

I would caution against being giddy about rewrites. As an end user, you should always be skeptical of brand new fresh off the factory bugs in rewrites, especially when the rewrite is of something as complex as a network stack.

> as well as stuff like the network stack being rewritten

I would be very interested in learning about this. Do you have any references ?

The ui alone is basically enough for me to not touch it for a while. I dont need any of the new features and there are loads of anti features i tthe ui (rightclick menu, taskbar icons for more than 1 window, changing default apps, etc)

I dont understand what's driving these changes, but they seem so use hostile that it puts me off the whole os.

> Hyper-V has some MASSIVE updates which noone talks about...

Have a URL for this?

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