The multitasking is awesome (especially window and monitor management, it's a huge improvement over W10), everything is snappy, the ARM64 battery life (especially in standby) is Macbook-like, I never have issues with USB-C docks and monitors (unlike Fedora where I always have to tinker with the terminal at some point), and the Windows version of Microsoft Excel is still unmatched.

There have also been great updates to PowerToys recently that I wish were easily available on other systems, but that's not a W11 specific thing.

Finally, I really like the UI (but that's obviously subjective! and if you really care about customization, Linux clearly is the best pick for you).

If not for being forced off, most people would never have left windows xp… many medical practices and industrial facilities still are in it.

The Start menu now allows me to do what I have been doing since, like, XP, using shellinks and folders in the taskbar: Sort the Program icons in categories (like "Coding", "Sys", "Tweak", "Web"), to find them easier. This is not totally buggy any more (On Windows 10 the start menu became unusable at some point).

In the taskbar I only have the most used icons. And the opened program instances are separated from the icons. That was doable on Win 10 and I think Win 7 too, using 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, which is now dysfunct. But the same author has created Windhawk, which does the same plus some other cool things.

The Explorer is useless as ever. I am still using Total Commander with its filter-as-you-type, rename tool and button bars.

What I still miss is a tool like Timeshift on Linux Mint.

* notepad with multi tab (but without copilot!) * New screenshot/screen recording tool * Windows terminal

If I can get all these on Windows 10, that would be wonderful.

Windows Key + P to change monitor configuration quickly.

Well Windows 11 is much better than Windows 10 on ARM devices.

Otherwise off the top of my head I don’t find Win11 much better or worse than Win10.

It seems like partially moving an app from one monitor to another is improved. Previously, this operation was quite laggy as Win10 must have been doing some involved calculations balancing the DPI between different resolutions.

It just works.

I can't point to a single thing that Windows 11 does particularly well.

With my Mac mini M2 Pro, there's just too many bugs. It needs an annoying turn-off-turn-on workaround for it to even output to the second monitor. The liquid glass update initially made things even less stable.

Linux I swore off years ago, no distro ever survived either their system updates or my dissatisfaction after a year or so.

So here I am using Windows 11, and thanks to the more powerful hardware, it's pretty fast and smooth, outputting at 240 Hz.

The Xbox app is bad and I don't like the Microsoft store, but other than that I have no major complaints.