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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by sunaookami on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:58PM (#48141164)
Aside from the start menu no, not really. Windows 8 is the most performant operating system. No laggy animations (thanks to DirectUI), fast boot time, especially fast on older systems. Windows 10 started the whole lagfest.
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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by bigstrat2003 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @05:06PM (#48141253)
"aside from the start menu" is one hell of a caveat. When you screw up one of the main UI elements as badly as they did, it really drags the whole experience down.
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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by sunaookami on Friday May 15, 2026 @06:43AM (#48146982)
Well most people just press the Windows key and type to open a program which works exactly the same on Win8. And personally I loved the start screen. And how often do you really need the start menu?
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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by Citizen_Lame on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:26AM (#48147763)
That's the most brain dead take I've seen in a while. Yes, forget about start menu and lets just search everything or use giant pictorials designed for 'blind' people.
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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by sunaookami on Friday May 15, 2026 @11:59AM (#48150248)
Not what I said.
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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by donkeylazy456 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @08:48PM (#48143149)
exactly! I don't understand why people hated it so much. It was snappy, clean OS. I've always thought it was better than Win7. Of course, absent of start menu was terrible choice. And I meant 8.1, not 8.
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