GET YOUR DRIVERS

Before you pull the trigger and start installing Windows 11, we’d recommend grabbing your drivers. There’s nothing worse than installing a fresh new OS only to realize your ethernet ports no longer work, or your GPU driver has defaulted to 800x600 on your 34-inch superwide screen.

Head to your motherboard’s product page, and grab a few basics, including the Ethernet and Wi-Fi drivers, sound drivers, and chipset (the rest you can get later if you need them). One last thing to note is the graphics driver: currently, only Nvidia has officially released drivers with support for Windows 11. That said, the majority of the operating system is based on Windows 10, so program and driver incompatibility should be fairly minimal.

We’ve installed everything we’d usually do for a test build with this tutorial, and there haven’t been any compatibility issues, apart from a few UI bugs, something we expect with an insider dev build.