Of those brave and hardy souls who have taken the plunge and made the leap to Win 11 v. 25H2, I ask: what has your experience been? How did the upgrade process go? I'm on the previous version.
Reading the list of changes (I won't go so far as to style them "improvements" or "upgrades" without some feedback) I see very little by way of value-to-me. I couldn't be any less interested in CoPilot, for example, nor in the zillion other things they admit to having done.
My experience so far (since July 2025) has been rather less than satisfactory, as the network / internet performance degrades rapidly if the machine is allowed to enter Sleep mode. The only way forward that I'd found is a complete restart, so I've gotten into the habit of powering the system off if I'm going to be away from it for more than a couple hours. Is the new version any less prone to that irritating behavior? The things I've read and tried (manually and explicitly configure the DNS gateways) made no difference at all.
Incidentally and secondarily, even in its "powered off" state, it seems to spontaneously power itself back up smetime overnight because in the morning when I come back to it it's sleeping rather than completely shut off. I haven't looked at the event logs to see if I can spot the culprit but I assume that MickeySoft has decided "Off" doesn't really mean "OFF" and chooses to restart the system to run update checks, scan my browsing history, rearrange my sock drawer, or whatever the hell else they see fit to do without telling me or giving me a chance to intervene. Pretty soon, OFF is going to be backstopped by plugging the thing into a switchable power strip (which will in turn be plugged into the UPS, where the CPU is currently plugged in, so that I can deprive the computer of any and all access to 110 volt power from the house mains unless and until I choose to grant it.
Does 2025H2 make the self power-up "feature" any more transparent, discoverable, or controllable? This is also a behavior I've not bothered to research, so the answer may be out there waiting for me to come asking.
TIA for any and all input as it relates to the upgrade. I don't need to know that Unix, iOS, Solaris, or whatever other o/s you may be using doesn't have those problems. I'm well aware of the cost / price of being in bed with MickeySoft but it's where I am and that's not going to change.
Reading the list of changes (I won't go so far as to style them "improvements" or "upgrades" without some feedback) I see very little by way of value-to-me. I couldn't be any less interested in CoPilot, for example, nor in the zillion other things they admit to having done.
My experience so far (since July 2025) has been rather less than satisfactory, as the network / internet performance degrades rapidly if the machine is allowed to enter Sleep mode. The only way forward that I'd found is a complete restart, so I've gotten into the habit of powering the system off if I'm going to be away from it for more than a couple hours. Is the new version any less prone to that irritating behavior? The things I've read and tried (manually and explicitly configure the DNS gateways) made no difference at all.
Incidentally and secondarily, even in its "powered off" state, it seems to spontaneously power itself back up smetime overnight because in the morning when I come back to it it's sleeping rather than completely shut off. I haven't looked at the event logs to see if I can spot the culprit but I assume that MickeySoft has decided "Off" doesn't really mean "OFF" and chooses to restart the system to run update checks, scan my browsing history, rearrange my sock drawer, or whatever the hell else they see fit to do without telling me or giving me a chance to intervene. Pretty soon, OFF is going to be backstopped by plugging the thing into a switchable power strip (which will in turn be plugged into the UPS, where the CPU is currently plugged in, so that I can deprive the computer of any and all access to 110 volt power from the house mains unless and until I choose to grant it.
Does 2025H2 make the self power-up "feature" any more transparent, discoverable, or controllable? This is also a behavior I've not bothered to research, so the answer may be out there waiting for me to come asking.
TIA for any and all input as it relates to the upgrade. I don't need to know that Unix, iOS, Solaris, or whatever other o/s you may be using doesn't have those problems. I'm well aware of the cost / price of being in bed with MickeySoft but it's where I am and that's not going to change.
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