Topic: Windows 11

[dactylus]

Has anyone here made the jump to Windows 11 yet?  I have a desktop and a laptop that were both purchased within the last year and I'm considering the "free" upgrade, if all of my current audio processing software will still function as intended.

[Gordon]

I have a brand new laptop and did a clean install of 11.  I have not processed a full show yet but all my software works.  iZotope RX, Wavelab 6, TLH, CD Wave, Foobar.....

I may do a clean install on my main desktop in the next few days.

[dactylus]

I have a brand new laptop and did a clean install of 11.  I have not processed a full show yet but all my software works.  iZotope RX, Wavelab 6, TLH, CD Wave, Foobar.....

I may do a clean install on my main desktop in the next few days.

Thanks Gordon!  That is what I wanted to hear.

[rocksuitcase]

studying Windows 11 for work and feel the new dock is stoopid. I still haven't deployed it on any machines yet. I can't wait for all the end user complaints about where is the start menu, etc. 

[Gordon]

I moved it to the left so it's in the standard start spot.  I pin most used programs to taskbar and like 10 the search works great for finding and opening apps.  So my time in the "start menu" is very limited.

[rocksuitcase]

I moved it to the left so it's in the standard start spot.  I pin most used programs to taskbar and like 10 the search works great for finding and opening apps.  So my time in the "start menu" is very limited.

+T for this tip

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

Got Windows 11 installed on my "unsupported" machine.

I first got Win 11 working as a Virtual Machine using Virtualbox. That required me to edit the Registry to complete which wasn't hard, but I prefer to avoid RegEdit if I can. I ran like crap in the VM. Pretty much unusable. So I bought a new 1TB SSD and installed Win 11 on that (keeping my old drive with Win 10 on it in case Win 11 didn't work well).

I found a guide that will allow you to install the ISO to a USB drive and make the installer not check for the TPM chip that is required. I used this guide with Rufus. Piece of cake. No RegEdit this way.

https://newscutzy.com/windows/create-bootable-usb-windows-11-unsupported-hardware/

Only have Brave Browser installed so far. I will get the rest of my programs installed soon. I don't see why anything that worked on Windows 10 wouldn't work on Windows 11 as there isn't a huge change in the actual OS.

Liking it so far. I'm sure that, as with Windows 10, it will take a bit of time to find things again. I've found the search function in Windows 10 found what I was looking for most of the time.

So far things seem just as fast as Windows 10. FWIW, my machine has a Intel Core I5 6400T with 16GB of RAM. Graphics are pretty basic. Intel HD Graphics 530 integrated chip.

[Gordon]

I ended up doing a clean install on my desktop.  Processed last nights recording with no issues.  Used RX 9, CD Wave, TLH and foobar.  Wavelab 6 works fine as well.

On a side note I built this rig in April with an 11th gen  i7.  At the time I used my old evo 970 nvme 500gb.  I just got a 1 tb WD Black sn850 to take advantage of pcie 4.0.  Check out this benchmark!

[AlexRobbinson]

I recently made the jump to Windows 11 on my machine, and so far, it's been a smooth experience. However, I can understand your concerns about compatibility with audio processing software.