Question FOMA: Top 3 Windows 11 features that Windows 10 does not have?

[Joe NYC]

Setting up a new PC. Deciding between Windows 10 and Windows 11.

I have a Fear of Missing Out. What are Top 3 features I will be missing out if I install WIndows 10?

I am mainly concerned about gaming performance, drivers, driver updates etc.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Specs of the new PC?

If it's Ryzen non-X3D, you won't be missing out on much. With Win10, you will actually be saved from the carpet being pulled from right under you where entire features get changed without notice.

Two examples (very annoying for me)

It used to be that you opened a file in Notepad, pressed CTRL+P and then Enter and the file would go to the default printer. In Windows 11 after some update, pressing Enter now opens up the Printers list. I have to manually point the mouse button on the Print button to print! I'm sure there is a shortcut for that but why the hell did they change it without any sort of notice? A little message saying "This is what we changed. This is how things will work now" would have been very appreciated.

Dragging a text file on Notepad would open the file. In Windows 11, they introduced multi tabbed Notepad with some update and now a new tab opens for every dragged file. AGAIN, they did this without any notice, did not inform existing users how the change would impact them and did not inform them how to revert to the previous behavior. EXASPERATING, to say the least.

In short, if you have vanilla Ryzen 5000 or 7000, stick with Windows 10 for the time being.

 

[Joe NYC]

Specs of the new PC?

If it's Ryzen non-X3D, you won't be missing out on much. With Win10, you will actually be saved from the carpet being pulled from right under you where entire features get changed without notice.

Two examples (very annoying for me)

It used to be that you opened a file in Notepad, pressed CTRL+P and then Enter and the file would go to the default printer. In Windows 11 after some update, pressing Enter now opens up the Printers list. I have to manually point the mouse button on the Print button to print! I'm sure there is a shortcut for that but why the hell did they change it without any sort of notice? A little message saying "This is what we changed. This is how things will work now" would have been very appreciated.

Dragging a text file on Notepad would open the file. In Windows 11, they introduced multi tabbed Notepad with some update and now a new tab opens for every dragged file. AGAIN, they did this without any notice, did not inform existing users how the change would impact them and did not inform them how to revert to the previous behavior. EXASPERATING, to say the least.

In short, if you have vanilla Ryzen 5000 or 7000, stick with Windows 10 for the time being.

I have Ryzen 7800x3d, which (I am assuming) should not have any need for enhanced scheduler, which 7950x3d might have.

Edit: the GPU is Navi 32, Radeon 7800 XT which is the one I am wondering may not get all the same driver updates under Windows 10 as it might under Windows 11.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Correct on the 7800X3D. It won't need any scheduler updates to work properly.

7800 XT is getting the same driver version on WIN10/11 so I don't think you have anything to worry about with Windows 10 till 14 October 2025. Afterwards, Windows Update will offer you the choice to update to WIN11 to take advantage of the latest features. I highly doubt that AMD will abandon WIN10 before Microsoft's end of support in 2025.

 

[lantis3]

Running Android APP?

 

[Joe NYC]

Running Android APP?

Thanks. I didn't think of that, but I am not planning on doing that.

 

[mikeymikec]

Setting up a new PC. Deciding between Windows 10 and Windows 11.

I have a Fear of Missing Out. What are Top 3 features I will be missing out if I install WIndows 10?

I am mainly concerned about gaming performance, drivers, driver updates etc.

AFAIK the only good reason to pick Win11 is because Win10 doesn't get any more security updates as of October 2025 (normally a given version of Windows gets ten years of updates from the day of its release).

 

[balloonshark]

I absolutely hate Windows 11. If I didn't have a 12th gen Intel chip I would downgrade the OS.

When my PC wakes up from sleep sometimes most of my taskbar icon disappear. Igor already mentioned the notepad thing plus it now saves automatically. it's going to take me a while to re-learn to close the tab instead of closing notepad like we did for 20+ years. The internet is also slow to wake after sleeping and shutting down takes longer than it should.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Igor already mentioned the notepad thing plus it now saves automatically. it's going to take me a while to re-learn to close the tab instead of closing notepad like we did for 20+ years.

OMG! That's the thing I hated the most on MacOS!!!!

Guess I'm gonna need to find a notepad replacement in a few years when Win10 is put to rest.

 

[balloonshark]

OMG! That's the thing I hated the most on MacOS!!!!

Guess I'm gonna need to find a notepad replacement in a few years when Win10 is put to rest.

This may help. I didn't see the little gear icon in the top right of notepad.

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Turn On or Off Automatically Save Session State for Notepad in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Notepad automatically saving the session state to open and continue where you left off for your account in Windows 11. Notepad is a fast and simple text editor that can be used to view, edit, and search through plain text documents instantly...

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