Seriously - this machine crashes several times a day, FF in W11 takes WAY more resources than needed - and when I am browsing simple websites on a premier gaming laptop it thinks it needs to drop into 'top gaming performance mode'
and TABS! actually crash on this machine.
I go through at least 3 reboots a day just browsing the web.
Windows 11 is absolute dogshit.
And not to mention they are putting news and ads on my fucking start menu?
Also trying to get me to use microsoft outlook 365/whatever as my primary login initially...
F that. W11 is hands down the worst microsoft product ever made, that I am aware of.
Weird. I'm running Windows 11, and I reboot every week or two, if that. I have no problems with performance whatsoever. Mind you, I'm not a big fan of 11, but I certainly haven't seen the issues you're describing.
Honestly, my Windows machine needs no more attention than my Mac OSX machine. Technically, more, but I do a lot more heavy lifting on my Mac (so I need to reboot more often to free up memory and such).
When something ubiquitously used breaks that often you should stop to consider if maybe your experience is not normal, and so seek to find what's wrong with it.
Hint, there's likely a problem with your hardware.
That's not normal at all. I have a healthy amount of hatred for Windows 11 myself, with its awful push to Microsoft accounts and the preinstalled crapware, but full system crashes are very rare in my experience. That sounds like a hardware issue (bad RAM?) or a broken driver to me. Gaming mode being triggered by browsing tabs does make it sound like some preinstalled tool by the laptop vendor is messing up.
Run the memory test that comes with windows. It takes like an hour or something, and will tell you if the memory is malfunctioning - that would explain all the mysterious crashes.
I've had this problem out of nowhere one day (computer would not stop crashing randomly) and it turned out to be a defective memory stick. All good after replacing it.
Sometimes bad quality ram chips, or set with the wrong timing in UEFI, or just not properly seated ram, can cause problems similar to what you've described. Anecdotally I have W11 installed on 5 different machines and none of them have the issues you're describing.
Worst is I’ve ever used. Absolute dog poop
Seriously - this machine crashes several times a day, FF in W11 takes WAY more resources than needed - and when I am browsing simple websites on a premier gaming laptop it thinks it needs to drop into 'top gaming performance mode'
and TABS! actually crash on this machine.
I go through at least 3 reboots a day just browsing the web.
Windows 11 is absolute dogshit.
And not to mention they are putting news and ads on my fucking start menu?
Also trying to get me to use microsoft outlook 365/whatever as my primary login initially...
F that. W11 is hands down the worst microsoft product ever made, that I am aware of.