Any brave upgraders?
I haven't had the courage to risk the sanctity of my gaming rig just yet (especially since Windows 11 apparently had some pretty serious performance issues with Ryzen CPUs at launch) but I decided to dual-boot my Linux laptop with it and play around with it.
AMD issues aside, it feels like it's in a much better place than Windows 10 was at launch. As far as the visuals are concerned, it's incredibly derivative. It really looks like what would happen if macOS and GNOME had a love child. It does have a certain "slickness" to it that Windows 10 generally lacks, and at least they didn't remove the ability to left-justify the taskbar icons (though it was shitty of them to remove the ability to dock it to other screen edges...sigh).
The huge spike in system requirements is still unforgivable, though. The fact that computers that are less than 5 years old are listed as incompatible is beyond dumb. Apparently the TPM/CPU requirements are just soft requirements, but there's no telling how long that's going to continue to be the case.