Gettting a new boot drive since last one died, with a fresh install should I get windows 24H2 or stick with 23H2?
Before anyone says it, I already have Fedora in another drive (which I will remove to install windows, dont worry) so no need to suggest linux.
Basically the last time I tried 24H2 was earlier this year from a forced update and it sucked balls, major performance issues in most games. I heard that a fresh install could fix this but I really couldnt be bothered so I reverted and blocked updates. But now thanks to my shitty chinese NVME that died with 30TBW with 2 years of use, I have an opportunity to install windows fresh. Should I even try 24H2 again? Better to install 23H2 offline and block feature updates again?
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Just go for it. It's not significantly different. We've pushed it to hundreds of PCs at work with very, very few issues. And most of those were resolved just by rolling back and trying again.
I also didn't have any (major) issues except for gaming, wanted to know if that is better now
if you're set on windows, I would advise on 24H2 for the technical improvements to areas like multiplane overlay and hardware accelerated graphics scheduling. There have been recent issues with the latter (specific to hardware flip queue on applicable hardware) but have been eliminated with the most recent cumulative updates.
The context menu is ever so slightly improved with actual text labels for cut, copy, paste etc, though these are tiny and would still fail accessibility requirements. General shell experience is still way worse than Win10 in terms of responsiveness.
I see, how about gaming performance? I might give a try from what you told me but any stuttering would just mean wiping clean for 23h2 tbh
between the two, maybe margin of error in favour of 24h2?
Can you tell us the contexts in which you encountered stuttering? Was it just gameplay on its own? Did it involve video playback simultaneously? Maybe streaming gameplay or something like that?
I do always have a twitch tab open but I don't stream myself
I see, that could be relevant to the areas above. The Chromium project has at least one high-impact open issue pertaining to Windows multiplane overlay implementation.
Am I right in presuming you used a chromium derived browser?
Was using Vivaldi, so chromium. Can that multiplane overlay be disabled?
you can disable it via windows registry but it's not a method I like to recommend, given that it's a beneficial technology.
If it causes stutters than it isn't beneficial to me though