@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Also. *puts on sniveling glasses* But didn't they actually discuss this like years ago and found little to know real-world impact?
The real-world impact it's had on me is that I had to waste hours fixing my sister's computer when it stopped booting. This particular computer is a laptop that almost never leaves her desk, much less the house. Upon booting to a Windows install USB, it required us to enter the Bitlocker key to get access to the drive. She wouldn't know what it was or how to enable it, so it probably came enabled by the vendor or she unknowingly enabled it during OOBE.
Anyway, getting the Bitlocker key required us to go on a different computer and log in to the Microsoft Account attached to her laptop. You know, the Account that Windows goes out of its way to get you to not use the email/username and password to log in to Windows, so you don't have a daily reminder of the username and password needed?
It took us a couple hours of going through every email address she could remember using, doing password resets and verifications and whatnot, and then checking to see if there were any Bitlocker keys attached to the Account to find the right one. After getting access to the drive, fixing the boot process took about 30 seconds.
After we got back into Windows I left it decrypting the drive, which probably meant it had poor performance until it was finished.