On my 5 year old work laptop it was so bad it was nearly unusable. I found that disabling the shell extensions they used to implement the new file explorer UI helped a lot with that.

Now that we're ranting, I wonder what's up with the right-click context menu in Windows 11 on my machines. It literally takes a noticeable fraction of a second (in the order of several hundred ms) for the menu with fewer than ten items to appear. (The first time might take around a second, I'd suppose due to disk I/O. But subsequent clicks also have a noticeable delay.)

All the computers with Windows 11 that are available to me are fairly similar so I don't know if it's just these particular software/hardware setups. But it seems absurd that a device capable of billions of operations per second even on a single core somehow takes hundreds of milliseconds to display a few menu items.

Your clicks need a round-trip to Redmond so they can sign off on it. It's for the greater good you see.

> The fucking start menu used to be an actual windows component that opened instantaneously. It's a web app now

This is disgusting! Who even comes up with ideas like that?

intern supervised by copilot most likely.

Only the Recommended section is react. The rest is WinUI.