It's a breath of fresh air for Windows that attempts to throw out much of the old UX in favor of a more modern, fluid, and simplistic interface. Windows 11 prioritizes simplicity, sometimes at the cost of burying functionality behind menus or inside the Settings app. However, if you usually have your Taskbar at the top of your display, or don't like the sound of having to click a few extra times to access a function that was previously available in a single click, then Windows 11 is not going to be for you at this moment. It feels ready for production use, and I've enjoyed every minute of using this OS. It's not slow, unstable, or buggy in my usage. If you've read this review and not considered any of the problems mentioned to be a deal-breaker, I think Windows 11 is going to be great for you.
Microsoft has achieved its goal of trying to simplify the top-level Windows UX, but at the cost of functionality which many consider essential to their workflows. Windows 11 is what you'd call a "version 1.0" product, which means it's just getting started, and while there's lots of great things here, there's also a lot missing (especially around the Taskbar) that long-time Windows users may struggle with.
Most pertinently of all, perhaps Zac Bowden's, since he's been covering Windows 11 since way before it was even announced: We also have some reviews of Windows 11 in. Helpfully, there's a Microsoft compatibility tool to advise you here. I'm sure that such glitches won't apply here because this is an official release, but I'd say that it's only worth even thinking of downloading Windows 11 using the routes above if you're 100% sure that your PC meets all the requirements (so a machine built since the start of 2019, I'd say).
I'd warn readers that I did try all this a few weeks ago with a preview edition on an older (2015) PC and it all went horribly wrong, with Windows 11 failing to install because the hardware wasn't fully supported, and then still trying to download over and over again.
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