Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse

Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by klodolph on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:17AM (#28852373)

It’s only Me/Vista/8 that people didn’t like.

Me was just a buggy piece of trash, maybe it would have gotten fixed, but XP was around the corner. Speaking purely from personal experience—had a desktop running Me, it’s the only time I ever saw Explorer crash.

Vista’s actually a decent Windows. The changes to security that broke a bunch of apps and made pop-ups everywhere stuck around, they just got polished a bit in later Windows, it would have been fine if Vista had a longer life.

Windows 8 had the Metro UI and introduced a ton of misguided changes around the assumption that people will be using touch—changes which were often half-implemented at best, so even if you had a touchscreen (I developed for these), you had to constantly switch between the Metro and desktop interfaces. A lot of those changes got unwound in 8.1 and 10.

IMO the bad ones are Me and 8. Anything that fixed 8’s problems would have gotten a new version number.

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Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by occamrazor on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:19PM (#28854136)

In my memory also 98 was horribly unstable until 98 SE.

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Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by klodolph on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:06PM (#28855411)

Early XP was also a horrible experience. If you installed an early version Windows XP and connected to the internet to update, you might get malware from remote vulnerabilities before the updates finished downloading.

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Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by xxs on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:39PM (#28854374)

likewise w/ 95 osr2. To me 8.1 is the better version - no telemetry junk compared to 10.

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