Microsoft Windows 11 Home (USB)

Overall Review: Installing it was a nightmare
Mostly because I didn’t fully read Microsofts system requirements. Let’s just say you’re definitely wanting to fully read and understand everything that they go over because I definitely did not
What really got me was when I got hit with the “your system doesn’t meet the needed requirements to run windows 11” when I tried to install for the first time
After looking around for a bit as to why I figured out most new motherboards don’t come with some of the needed settings turned on in bios
Easy enough to fix I guess
Well it took me about an hour to find everything and get it turned on and then it booted up fine but basically all I’m saying is
Make sure you read how to turn on TPM and secure boot
Microsoft has links in their system requirements page on how to enable both of these

Pros: Can take advantage of the new architecture in 12th-gen Intel processors. Cons: Windows 11 is a lot like Windows 10, except without all the great things that made Windows 10 great. Customizations are gone. Features and utilities for power users are gone. You can’t even display taskbar tray icons by default anymore! The OS is slightly faster, but everything takes longer to do because things have been buried in too many menus. What used to be 2 click is not 4-5 clicks, and some stuff you can’t even do at all anymore. Overall Review: It feels like this OS was designed for the computer illiterate in mind. Microsoft claims to have designed it based on feedback from users, but if you look at the Feedback Hub, it’s nothing but people asking for the options they had before. Microsoft clearly thinks all their users are unintelligent now, and they’ve made an OS that makes you work inefficiently whether you want to or not.

Pros: It installs and boots
potentially is needed for effective use of P and E Cores with Intel 12th and 13th generation processors. Cons: to start with a local admin account instead of windows hello Shift-F10 kill netflow until it works.
get used to running powershell and Get-AppxPackage -allusers *name of something to uninstall* | Remove-AppxPackage to remove bloatware. Came with tiktok and instagram installed like it was a phone, disgusting.
Good luck configuring it the way you want it without using regedit or third party software, they’ve intentionally removed options in the UI that windows is still capable of doing and users want.
Considering the amount of hours ive already spent just trying to configure windows to not spy on me and have the functionality i want Microsoft should be paying me to use this software not the other way around. Overall Review: Don’t use this garbage unless you need to for hardware reasons. And to whatever software engineer at microsoft that decided to gut the UI to this point please report to the hague for crimes against humanity, the collective amount of time being wasted because of your decision should be punishable by equal time in prison.

Overall Review: I built a new computer and did a fresh install of Windows. The USB drive boots right up into install. The install requires an internet connection, but because the compute was new there were no drivers loaded, so I was left with a “Select Network”, but no options. I was able to find that I had to download the network drivers from my motherboard manufacturer and there is a screen during the initial install that says “Load Drivers”. Once I did that, the install was smooth sailing.