AMD Ryzen 7.
In my case, I do IT support for a living. The more experience I get with Windows 11 before I have to support it professionally, the better off I’ll be. I did the same thing with XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10. (Though Vista was especially painful as there was little support for it by hardware manufacturers and I couldn’t get drivers for many components, and Windows 8 was awful until 8.1 came out and made it much easier to use.)
No I didn’t know that, my question related to the only one I know about and how it works, and that’s snip tool. The last think I want to do is experiment with other stuff electronically and and find they’re possibly worse than nothing.
Experiment with stuff… electronically…
Okay, I officially give up on trying to help you. 
Well, I’m not about to experiment with “hundreds” of other snip tools when one that many use has worked fine. That’s just silly, IMHO. I guess I didn’t find that suggestion helpful, but that may be partly the fact that I come from the generation where we commonly believe in “change” where the change is a proven improvement as opposed to “change, for the sake of change” with much of this computer shat is all about.
That’s probably the best reason I can see for upgrading. But I know I personally just run Windows 11 in a VM, to make sure it can’t actually get in the way. I learned the hard way with Windows 10, after an update made it unusable. Plus I can also easily run other OS versions in VM, too.
But I also only “support” those OSes in the sense that I help others fix problems. I’m not programming for them or anything, nor is it my job. So I get making it your daily driver if you can.
I just don’t recommend it for most people.
The other day, the Windows Update screen said it was ready for the Windows 11 update but there was an option to select that I wanted to remain on Windows 10 for now.
I’m curious if you’re using a legacy snipping tool or if you are using the Windows app. To trigger the app I do Windows Key+Shift+S. It works fine in Windows 11 on my system.
If that app itself was what wasn’t working for you, that is a known issue that KB5008295 is supposed to fix through Windows Update.
On the other hand if you switched back to Windows 10, everything is now working, and you have no reason to go back to 11 I would advise just do what works for you. 
Yes, going back to 10 instantly fixed the problem. However, at some point we’re not doubt “forced” to change so I’m hopeful snipping tool is working by then without a bunch of convoluted BS.
Just as an aside, my apple phone just had an update and now a bunch of crap there is wonky so i’m in the midst of trying to get the usability of stuff back in order.
Very interesting, thank you. Reason I asked is that my son built a gaming system a couple of years ago where he took pride in using the latest and best components, and the processor was a Ryzen 9 12-core. When Windows 11 first came out he heard from friends that some AMD processors like the Ryzen had performance issues with it. I told him I thought this was very unlikely since his processor model is explicitly on Microsoft’s list of fully supported processors for Windows 11.
He’s still running Windows 10 on it and I see no great advantage in “upgrading” to Windows 11, but I’ll pass on this information. Personally, as an old fart who doesn’t do gaming, I’m still perfectly happy with Windows 7 myself. 
No, he was entirely correct. There was a huge bug when it first came out that slowed down AMD processors by up to 15% in games. It took more than a month for them to iron it out.
Most assume it had to do with the changes Microsoft made to the scheduler to accommodate Intel’s latest chips, which use a different architecture design (two different types of cores).
This sort of thing is exactly why everyone recommends you wait a bit. These sorts of bugs crop up with this sort of thing—especially after Microsoft gutted their testing department.
Thanks for the further info. I think I did some cursory Googling at the time and was not able to uncover this information. But absolutely agree that not rushing into the first major new OS version and waiting a while is a good idea.
I signed up for W11 today. Now the laptop takes 6 minutes to boot up and then let me search or email or anything. Then, when trying to log into SDMB, it (SDMB) didn’t recognize me so I tried to create a new account with my earlier creds and got “That’s already in use!” So I had to try my old pw (for the first time in years) to log in.
Oh lovely…