Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windows 11

Re:Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windo... by userbinator on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:40PM (#28226133)

They also take disturbingly long to load, and every interaction is noticeably delayed. At least in Win10 you can compare how long they take, since it has both. I don't think I've ever had to wait for Control Panel to load on every version of Windows prior to 10, but Settings needs a loading screen.

The responsible monstrosity is none other than UWP, which also added a loading screen to the Calculator.

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Re:Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windo... by watermelon0 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:51PM (#28226262)

At least it's not an Electron app. :D

I believe that animations are partially responsible for the slowdown, and Windows is not the only offender here, iOS and Android are just as much guilty of this. In most cases, animations when opening apps, switching screens, etc. don't add anything to the UX.

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Re:Switching from Microsoft Edge gets more annoying in Windo... by salamandersauce on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:49PM (#28226932)

I always found it wild that reading an ebook in the UWP Kobo app on my quad core, 16GB RAM laptop with a SSD is a slower worse experience than using a 1GHz single core eInk reader with a microSD card for storage. Legitimately takes it longer to load the same book.

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