You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went
You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went
你们付钱让我这个资深 Linux 用户独家使用 Windows 11 一个月：体验如何？
You all donated en masse to have me use Windows 11 for a month, and so I did. What was it like for a long-time Linux user to go back and experience Windows as it exists now? Is it really as bad as we’ve collectively made it out to be? Did my month with Windows 11 consist of nothing but pain and misery, or are there good things to say, too? Or, was it an unexpected pleasant surprise? And ultimately, did I stay with Windows 11, or move back to the Linux world?
你们大家集体捐款让我使用 Windows 11 一个月，所以我照做了。对于一个长期使用 Linux 的用户来说，回归并体验现在的 Windows 是什么感觉？它真的像我们大家所说的那样糟糕吗？我这一个月使用 Windows 11 的经历是充满了痛苦和折磨，还是也有值得称道的地方？又或者，它是一个意想不到的惊喜？最终，我是留在了 Windows 11，还是回到了 Linux 的世界？
This year, I’m celebrating the milestone of having posted 20000 stories on OSNews during my 21 years as managing editor of OSNews. This is my full-time job, and since nobody is going to give me any bonuses, stock options, or golden pens, we’re running a big fundraiser to keep OSNews going. To add some spice to the whole thing, I added some incentives, with the first being using Windows 11 for a month. We’re slowly but steadily approaching the next incentive, too, which is a proper video tour of my office, (unique) computers, and massive devices collection. There’s a similar incentive to this Windows 11 one, but for macOS. Yikes.
今年，我迎来了在 OSNews 担任主编 21 年来发布 20,000 篇文章的里程碑。这是我的全职工作，由于没有人会给我奖金、股票期权或金笔，我们正在进行一场大型筹款活动以维持 OSNews 的运营。为了增加趣味性，我增加了一些激励措施，第一个就是使用 Windows 11 一个月。我们也在缓慢而稳定地接近下一个激励目标，即拍摄一段关于我的办公室、（独特的）计算机和海量设备收藏的视频导览。还有一个类似于 Windows 11 的激励计划，但针对的是 macOS。天哪。
The rules for the Windows 11 incentive are simple: use stock Windows 11 for a month for my computing tasks (with the exception of gaming – converting my Linux gaming PC to Windows just to play the same games seemed silly). I wasn’t allowed to use any debloating tools, but as an EU citizen, I do have the ability to remove a ton of Windows stuff thanks to the success of the Digital Markets Act. I also tried to stick to Microsoft’s own applications as much as possible, for that true “ecosystem experience”, and wasn’t allowed to hack my way into a normal local user account. I was all-in.
Windows 11 激励计划的规则很简单：在一个月内将原生 Windows 11 用于我的日常计算任务（游戏除外——为了玩同样的游戏而把我的 Linux 游戏 PC 改成 Windows 似乎很傻）。我不被允许使用任何精简工具，但作为欧盟公民，多亏了《数字市场法案》（DMA）的成功，我有权卸载大量 Windows 自带软件。为了获得真正的“生态系统体验”，我也尽量坚持使用微软自家的应用程序，并且不允许通过黑客手段绕过限制去创建普通的本地用户账户。我这次是全身心投入了。
Setting it all up
设置过程
The installation process posed a number of challenges and issues. First and foremost, the Windows 11 installation process is incredibly barebones, and basically assumes no other operating system exists in the world. It has no clue anything other than Windows’ filesystems exist, making it dangerously easy to accidentally damage or outright delete any other operating systems you might have installed. My laptop happens to have two M.2 SSDs in, so I could safely dedicate one of them to Windows 11 without interfering with the other SSD with Fedora installed on it, but if you’re experimenting with Windows 11 on your Linux machine with just one drive, you might want to reconsider.
安装过程带来了一系列挑战和问题。首先，Windows 11 的安装程序极其简陋，基本上假设世界上不存在其他操作系统。它完全不知道 Windows 文件系统之外的任何东西存在，这使得你非常容易意外损坏甚至彻底删除你安装的其他操作系统。我的笔记本电脑恰好有两个 M.2 SSD，所以我可以安全地将其中一个专门用于 Windows 11，而不干扰安装了 Fedora 的另一个 SSD。但如果你是在只有一块硬盘的 Linux 机器上尝试 Windows 11，你可能需要三思。
I also had to perform the first portion of the installation process – the WinPE section – with just my keyboard, since apparently, my trackpad was not supported and did not work at all. Once the system went through its first of what would be many reboots to come and loaded into the phase of the installation where you’re actually already running Windows 11, my trackpad came to life, but without any gestures support – so no scrolling. Not a gamebreaker or anything, but definitely annoying.
我还必须仅用键盘完成安装过程的第一部分（WinPE 阶段），因为显然我的触控板不受支持，完全无法工作。当系统经历了第一次（未来还会有很多次）重启，并进入实际运行 Windows 11 的安装阶段后，我的触控板恢复了工作，但没有任何手势支持——所以无法滚动页面。这虽然不是什么致命问题，但确实很烦人。
A bigger issue was that the Wi-Fi 7 Intel BE200 chip in my laptop was not supported out of the box by Windows 11. This meant that I had to install these drivers during the installation process, which involves going to the Intel website and finding the correct drivers to use. To make this process more obtuse and less intuitive, you can’t use the normal driver installer; you have to specifically opt for the “Intel® PROSet/Wireless Software and Wi-Fi Drivers for IT Administrators“, download the ZIP, unpack it on a different computer, put the unpacked drivers on a USB stick, and point the Windows 11 installer to this USB stick.
一个更大的问题是，我笔记本电脑里的 Wi-Fi 7 Intel BE200 芯片在 Windows 11 中无法直接使用。这意味着我必须在安装过程中手动安装驱动程序，这需要去英特尔官网查找正确的驱动。为了让这个过程更加晦涩难懂，你不能使用普通的驱动安装程序；你必须专门选择“面向 IT 管理员的 Intel® PROSet/无线软件和 Wi-Fi 驱动程序”，下载 ZIP 包，在另一台电脑上解压，放入 U 盘，然后引导 Windows 11 安装程序指向该 U 盘。
Mind you, the BE200 chip was launched almost three years ago, and there’s no excuse for Windows 11 not supporting this chip out of the box – like Linux does.
请注意，BE200 芯片几乎是三年前发布的，Windows 11 没有理由像 Linux 那样不支持这款芯片。
The remainder of the installation process involved dodging a lot of tracking and telemetry prompts, reboots, a lot of waiting, setting up the dreaded online account, waiting some more, and then finally ending up at the desktop. I then set out to enjoy my EU privileges by removing whatever applications I didn’t need and turning off features I didn’t want, as well as making sure all the drivers were up to date. This mostly involved installing the Intel Driver & Support Assistant and the Intel graphics drivers. Curiously, this is where I hit a returning issue: after installing the Intel GPU drivers for the first time, as well as after every subsequent update, the screen would go black and stay that way, forcing a reboot. Windows’ graphics stack is supposed to be able to gracefully handle driver updates, but clearly, some bug or problem was preventing the updated Intel driver from being reinitialised.
安装过程的其余部分涉及躲避大量的跟踪和遥测提示、重启、漫长的等待、设置令人讨厌的在线账户、继续等待，最后终于进入了桌面。随后，我开始享受我的欧盟公民特权，卸载不需要的应用程序，关闭不想要的功能，并确保所有驱动程序都是最新的。这主要涉及安装 Intel 驱动程序和支持助手以及 Intel 显卡驱动。奇怪的是，我在这里遇到了一个反复出现的问题：在第一次安装 Intel GPU 驱动程序后，以及随后的每次更新后，屏幕都会变黑并保持黑屏，迫使我重启。Windows 的图形堆栈本应能够优雅地处理驱动程序更新，但显然，某些错误或问题阻止了更新后的 Intel 驱动程序重新初始化。
Once those initial setup tasks were behind me, I experienced two more problems. First, sleep/wake was entirely broken and simply did not work. It turns out Windows 11 really doesn’t like S3 sleep, and I had to specifically go into my laptop’s Dasharo Coreboot firmware to switch to S0ix get sleep/wake to work on Windows 11. Windows defaults to something it calls “Modern Standby”, which requires the S0ix state to be enabled. You can also disable Modern Standby which would presumably make sleep/wake work with S3 (?), but this is a whole ordeal and clearly not something Microsoft wants you to do.
完成这些初始设置任务后，我又遇到了两个问题。首先，睡眠/唤醒功能完全损坏，根本无法工作。事实证明，Windows 11 确实不喜欢 S3 睡眠，我必须专门进入笔记本电脑的 Dasharo Coreboot 固件切换到 S0ix，才能让 Windows 11 的睡眠/唤醒功能正常工作。Windows 默认使用它所谓的“现代待机”（Modern Standby），这需要启用 S0ix 状态。你也可以禁用现代待机，这大概能让 S3 睡眠/唤醒工作（？），但这非常麻烦，显然不是微软希望你做的事情。
Of course, the correct way of handling this would be for Windows 11 to adapt its sleep/wake settings to what the firmware reports, but alas. Another problem were the laptop’s cooling fans seemingly leading lives of their own, spinning up loudly at entirely random times, irrespective of use. It was so bad and loud I assumed the laptop was damaged somehow, and nothing I tried alleviated the issue. However, a day after installation, a massive Windows update came in that somehow fixed the issue.
当然，正确的处理方式应该是 Windows 11 根据固件报告的内容自动调整其睡眠/唤醒设置，但可惜并没有。另一个问题是笔记本电脑的散热风扇似乎有自己的想法，无论是否在使用，都会在完全随机的时间大声旋转。声音大到我以为笔记本电脑坏了，我尝试了各种方法都无法缓解这个问题。然而，在安装一天后，一个大型 Windows 更新推送了进来，不知何故修复了这个问题。