How important is it to upgrade to Windows 11?

I have a computer that meets the minimum system requirements and more including a TPM2 .

I want to know if it is necessary to upgrade to Windows 11 or if it is just an option. Will applications drop support, will I lose features, etc.?

Not at all, at the moment. To be honest, I wouldn't recommend upgrading until Windows 11 has been tested by more people. At some point in the future you will be forced to if you want to use an application that requires Windows 11 and will not run on 10. But that day is a long time away. Microsoft is pretty good with backwards compatibility (even though that has many downsides).

I haven't found any must-have features in Windows 11 so far.

In October 2025 Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 10 though so you should switch before then.

How important is it to pound nails into your skull? Win11 has several degradations and nothing other than eye-candy as "upgrades"

The TV commercials imply that downloading or playing games is much faster with less buffering in Windows 11...can that be possible? I doubt Microsoft would make a blatant lie, so is there some improved hardware optimization?

@bobuhito If they made significant changes to the VFS layer (like, for example, not blatantly hooking the integrated AV software into every single VFS call as seems to be the case in W10) or the networking stack it actually is possible. Of course, it’s not really that much of a practical benefit given that many big-name games have actual issues at runtime on W11 (either performance problems compared to W10, or actual stability issues).

How important is it to upgrade to Windows 11?

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