Not really an option for me, the work I usually do is very technical. I'm effectively tied to the limitations of the software and the way they work together (photoshop and illustrator), but these limitations are miles away from the limitations of the competition, trust me on that.
Not to mention that changes in expected behaviour can cost money.
I don't drawn and paint, but yeah, Photoshop is not that good for something like that. Passable at best.
Previously, I've used MacOS since 2003 becuase Windows was shit/going nowhere and I could automate the workflow much better on it. Windows didn't improve a lot in these years, but MacOS got worse/staler, then the walled garden was closing up and with the M1 switch, unreasonable prices and an expected decrease in support for outdated machines I decided to bail out of it.
Without Linux running these apps as if they were native I'm stuck with either MacOS or Windows.
Windows 10 works for me.
Windows 11 absolutely doesn't. "Previous versions" support is scaled down and I use it for everything and I do use the taskbar on top, because think of it, you do miles on a windows PC to click on things when you don't in any other OS, the bar you use constantly should be right next to the other bar you use constantly, in windows case that's the file bar. Even closing apps with the mouse makes you basically swim pools in windows it's in the corner you don't use for anything.
Powertoys is awesome right now, and adds a lot of productivity with it's quick search bar tool (alt+space) works almost like a poor man's Apple Spotlight, it's kinda crazy to me that they're not rolling these functionalities into the OS and instead playing centered start menus with rounded corners.
Rounded corners are shit in any desktop operating system might I add. Apple also dropped the ball on that one.
You have to have a 8th gen intel processor or better, the first Zen generation is also unsuported and you need to have TPM 2 and enable it. If you have a 6th gen and TPM2? (it's possible) well fuck you.
This for it to tell you that you're eligible for the upgrade that's actually a downgrade. In reality you don't need to have any of that, the OS runs
without problems and even updates on a Pentium 4. And they made an exception for some 7th gen Intel processors because they were still selling Surface's with them.
They should have gotten an antitrust lawsuit, it's almost like they earn money from people buying new PC's.
It does, it's just that it is TPM 1.2, which is actually the hidden baseline Microsoft originally considered then hid because millions of "old pcs" could fully support it. About as secure as TPM 2 (spoiler: not much) and it's probably disabled for that reason.
If you really want to go for it,
here are the instructions directly from the horses mouth.