Tech Tonic | It is nigh impossible to use Windows 11 on a work machine

It’s been a sort of consistent trend through the past few months, as I’ve written about how Windows PCs are evolving rapidly. That is, you’ll be better off with a MacBook Air or a MacBook Pro, instead of an expensive Windows 11 laptop from Dell or Lenovo, for example. A former Microsoft engineer, Andy Young, called out Windows 11’s performance “comically bad” in a post on X, at some point last month. Microsoft’s directional problem with Windows For all the goodness of artificial intelligence assistance that’s envisioned as Copilot gets embedded into Windows 11 and all of Microsoft’s services that you use regularly, there are experience gaps that the operating system has at its core. In this period, I have made multiple genuine attempts to use a Windows 11 laptop or convertible as my primary work machine, but that’s never been a successful pursuit.