The weird thing about rants like this is I tell customers that there are very few business-oriented new features in Windows 11 that justifies the upgrade, but there are quite a few developer-oriented features that are unique to it.
Windows Terminal is a nice example, but proper support for Windows Containers is huge. It was “technically possible” to containerise workloads on Windows 10 but you had to maintain the exact same patch level as the server OS the containers would run on! Windows 11 removed this restriction.
There’s also Dev Drive and a bunch of other small things like HTTP/3 and TLS 1.3 support and whatnot.
At $dayjob I have to hold the hand of helpless devs mired in corporate miasma complete with out-of-date Windows 10 desktops. I regularly have the issue of trying to show them something and failing because I forgot I have Windows 11 and they don’t.
Windows Terminal is not unique to Windows 11. You can install it on Windows 10.
As for containers, you can install Docker or Podman or some other container infrastructure. The Windows versions of them have hooks into the Windows OS too.
TLS 1.3 can be enabled in Windows 10 by toggling a registry key.
Windows Terminal is a nice example, but proper support for Windows Containers is huge. It was “technically possible” to containerise workloads on Windows 10 but you had to maintain the exact same patch level as the server OS the containers would run on! Windows 11 removed this restriction.
There’s also Dev Drive and a bunch of other small things like HTTP/3 and TLS 1.3 support and whatnot.
At $dayjob I have to hold the hand of helpless devs mired in corporate miasma complete with out-of-date Windows 10 desktops. I regularly have the issue of trying to show them something and failing because I forgot I have Windows 11 and they don’t.