Re:X is justifiably slow
by raverbashing on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:51AM
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Yeah Windows 11 is a bag of delays and buggy interfaces (and telemetry)
It's frankly ridiculous how everything "kinda seems to work" but not really
Yeah. Re the
>yet computers don't feel much faster
it depends on the computer rather. The slowest I've experienced was a cheap laptop with Windows Vista where just right clicking on an icon to see the menu could take like 30 seconds. I'm now on an M1 macbook air where everything is pretty much instant. That said the other instant computer I had was a Psion 3 which came out 33 years ago so it's down to the individual design I guess. Windows has always been kind of bad to varying degrees.
the most important part of speed these days is NVRAM not just a SSD. If you are using a standard SSD things will still be much slower.
I think something is very wrong when a Linux installation gets more responsive and Windows installation gets slower as time passes and software gets updated.
I can still run a Debian 12 with KDE on a standard SSD way faster than a Win 11 installation on a NVMe, and that installation is 8 years old, and runs tons of applications at any given time.
It still does take several seconds to open start menu, same for calculator. Explorer takes sometimes a minute so I have a different file manager open constantly.
The trick is to combine windows with any type of DLP enterprise software. It consistently delivers this horrible experience.
But aside from poor enterprise setups, try opening win11 start menu on a computer that has internet, just veeery slow. Suddenly you will miss those times of win95 loading start menu icons one by one, with a soundtrack of scrubbing HDD.
I don't miss those times purely because of huge stability differences. 20 years ago or so, systems crashed all the time and filesystems had to be repaired constantly. I even clearly recall how often was a kernel panic on random Linux distro, when you tried early docker.