Windows 11 is mostly fine. Other websites have struggled just as much to get consistent performance out of Zen 5 on Windows 11 and this is 100% on AMD who have completely botched the Zen 5 launch. German ComputerBase is a very AMD-friendly site ("AMDbase") but their editors have written some lengthy rants about the difficulties of reviewing Zen 5 CPUs in a consistent fashion.
For example, it seems like you really need to clean install the OS for certain things to be applied properly. An image will not do. It needs to be an actual install because only that will apparently trigger the correct post-install routines to activate core parking on the multi-CCD CPUs. They encountered many such oddities in their testing.
It is insane. CB were quite unamused and one of the most frequent requests by the community recently has been a Zen 5 install guide. AMD done fucked this up real good.
Aside from my Intel CPU being a degraded piece of shit and some Win 11 concerns aside (that also apply to Win 10 cuz Microshit is Microshit), I really can not complain about Win 11 at all. Fixing the context menu to work as it did in previous Windows versions was a regedit "hack" that took all of 30 seconds to apply.
I've also gotten used to the taskbar in the center in less than five minutes and the position can be changed easily still. Everything else is just like Win 10. No difference.
For big.LITTLE Intel CPUs, Win 11 is kind of a "must" anyway because Microsoft and Intel have put quite a bit of work into Win 11's scheduler for it to cooperate better with Intel's hardware scheduler (a.k.a "Thread Director"). If you want to get the best performance and efficiency out of those P and E cores then Win 11 is basically mandatory.
-=Threadcrappeur Extraordinaire=-