Or death by a thousand cuts, if you prefer.
I have a new PC. It’s mere months old, and yet already Windows 11 is bugging out and acting weird. Some examples:
- The context menu you get by right-clicking will randomly switch between the new Windows 11 style and the older version used in Windows 10.
- Snipping Tool will sometimes fail to open, producing a dialog to find another app in the Microsoft Store (trying again usually works).
- Other random applications will just stop working, needing to be ended via Task Manager. The main culprit remains File Explorer, which will occasionally stop responding, even when opening a window with as few as two files in it. Sometimes it eventually recovers, sometimes it just needs a full restart.
- General snappiness is already eroding as Windows does whatever it does to make everything slower.
- Even the usually sturdy PowerToys sometimes has its tools fail to work (like Preview) until you recite the proper incantation.
Anyway, rather than just complaining, this may finally inspire me to move the drives from the old PC into the new one, and get a proper dual boot system going again. That way I can install Windows XP, a stable operating system.
Just kidding.
(Although it wasn’t bad once you had all three service packs and patches installed.)
I’m going to install some Linux distro. My short list is:
- Linux Mint (I’m most familiar with it)
- Kubuntu (because I like KDE Plasma and this is one of the more mainstream distros to use it)
- ??? A lot of others could go here. My bootable USB stick is ready.
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