Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2
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@George-K said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:
what model, how old?
Bought on 9/21/16 Mac Mini /2.6 Ghz/8GB/1TB $740 including tax
Upgraded from Early 2009
It doesn't get much use these days. If I start up the dev environment to play with some code it is very slow - it takes minutes. Once it gets going it is usable.
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I don't think I've had a Windows patch that took more than 5 minutes to install. Hell, Windows 11 only took about an hour. Apparently, I installed this one back in July
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:
I don't think I've had a Windows patch that took more than 5 minutes to install. Hell, Windows 11 only took about an hour. Apparently, I installed this one back in July
Same experience I have with Windows 11. Very stable too.
22H2 installed on 5/10/23
23H2 installed on 11/22/23 -
The speed difference is very nice.
Little stuff like reading tncr is about the same, no big deal.
Copying lots of big files takes probably less than 10% of the time on the old HDD.
MS Flight Sim install went from 9+ hours to 3+ hours.
Boot time now is maybe a minute or so, it used to be 10-15 minutes.
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@Copper said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:
Boot time now is maybe a minute or so, it used to be 10-15 minutes.
I just checked. My 2023 Mac Mini (M2 chip) booted from its internal SSD.
From startup chime to functioning desktop and all external devices mounted.
23.05 seconds.
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Yeah, it's definitely worth shelling out from time to time - my 2-3 year old PC boots in about 15 seconds. NVMe FTW.
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You know how you format the drive and install Windows
Then you install about a million Apps that go back for years and years
And after about a day and a half you install something that won't let the machine run for more than a few minutes before hitting the "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH".
And over the next 2 days you reboot about several hundred times.
Then you finally reformat and start over again.
That is what I have been doing.
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@Copper said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:
You know how you format the drive and install Windows
I stopped doing that after Windows 7, for the reasons given in the rest of your post.
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After several days and hundreds of re-boots the problem is finally fixed.
I wiped out both the HDD and SSD and made the system completely unusable.
My best guess is that I had some kind of hardware error that made the problem show up a failure of, mouse, keyboard, video card, memory, system software, cooling system, and both drives.
Solution: unplug everything and put the machine in the closet.
Go to Costco and get a decent gaming PC, the kind with the see-through case that appeals to middle school gamer types. Lucky that I keep lots of backups.
Problem solved.