I understand completely. Not only the time consumption, but also the loss of available space on the hard drive that the updates cause. Fortunately, there is a way to disable automatic Windows updates permanently, and it is working for me. The video below provides the details.
You just bought a brand new machine and it's fast. That's quite normal. Give it a few hundred days of use then see what the changes are. Guaranteed it will be significantly slower booting depending upon how many boot-up apps you fire up. Also, including cache maintenance and file access/bloatware. You could most probably clean up your old machine to be competitive hardware aside.
Unless your old machine is too old you might be able to ramp it to Win11. I've heard through the rumor mill that Win11 requires a very recently released processor but I have no details on that and replacing the old one might be more expensive than you want to spend.
Many newer kinds of hardware are not directly supported / compatible with Win 7 unless added drivers are installed. if you are using newer hardware, then you have to have 10 or 11 versions of Windows unless you are very good at driver installs.
My time has a lot of value, even though I'm now retired. Linux > Windows (and let's not even go into MacOS). I spend little time administering any Linux machine. The days of mode lines, manual disk partitioning, configuring a window manager, and swap files are long in the past.
The PC Health Check tool (downloadable from Microsoft) will indicate if your computer is able to update to Windows 11. I think if it is from 2016 or newer you should be good to go.
In some cases you're right, but Win11 and an SSD drive, automatically increases the boot and load times over a machine running Win10 and a spinning disc.
Can't remember what you have to type into the command line, but there is a way to see if the hardware is compatible with Win11. Most systems more than two years old, probably aren't.
You lose all of the hardware security interactions by doing so.
That is primarily what I meant by "supporting software" in my previous message. Most new drivers still support Win7 but I can see where that might eventually fade away. If it does, and I need to support that hardware, I'll either need to update my OS or, and most likely, go to a more modern machine than my current one (about 5 years old built-it-myself). For now Win7 and my machine fit all my requirements so I'll stick with them until they don't.
Web site says the tool will only download/install on Win10 machines. I didn't try it as I'm still on Win7.
If your computer originally came with Windows 7 it is too old to support Windows 11.
Exactly. Many that came with Win10 too.
My computer came in many boxes. I built it from scratch about 4-5 years ago.
And if you build your own, you don’t get all the bloatware that ready-made units come with. Plus you can check easily what apps and drivers are running and delete unneeded ones.
You can go to the Windows update utility and it shows compatibility and asks if you want to upgrade.
Same Here. I have 5 running units for my website, one for each scanner and a main unit for processing. None has a CPU older than 3 years… oldest is Ryzen Threadripper 3960, up for replacement in about January with new Threadripper.
I think you have that backwards. I don't have any experience with Win11 or Win10 but a PC with a SSD as the boot drive should be noticeably faster than one with a hard disk.
