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WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

brokencode wrote: post #5
Almondsetat wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again

Microsoft has long had a tick tock cycle for Windows. 98: great. ME: bad. XP: great. Vista: bad. 7: great. 8: bad. 10: great. 11: bad

10 was bad 11 is a little better but no enough. With win10 they started with more annoying ads and the start menu with apps and the click bait news in the start menu

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by dgellow »

Rohansi wrote: post #8
dgellow wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone who tried to do serious native windows dev has been burnt so often by Microsoft. I really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt with WinUI 3 but I really cannot anymore. Until proven otherwise I expect absolutely nothing to improve meaningfully. It’s extremely sad for those of us who were dumb enough to think Microsoft take on modern GUI would be interesting to follow closely, we are in 2026 and WPF is…

> we are in 2026 and WPF is still the way to go IMHO. Why not Avalonia? It's not Microsoft but it is a spiritual successor to WPF, cross-platform, and open source.

Sure, Avalonia is fine. I meant specifically Microsoft offering

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by JamesStuff »

Almondsetat wrote: post #4
solarkraft wrote: post #2

Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.

Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again

You can always really on the MBAs

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by Levitating »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #11
brokencode wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has long had a tick tock cycle for Windows. 98: great. ME: bad. XP: great. Vista: bad. 7: great. 8: bad. 10: great. 11: bad

10 was bad 11 is a little better but no enough. With win10 they started with more annoying ads and the start menu with apps and the click bait news in the start menu

still leaps better than windows 8

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by the__alchemist »

As someone who builds desktop apps:

Is there any reason I would use this over something cross-platform like EGUI? I am kind of over software being OS-specific; this is one of the biggest compatibility mistakes we've made. Along with the related process of making drawing pixels on a display a complicated process!

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Will any of this translate to Windows programs like File Manager? Whatever their Image viewer is even called? For some ungodly reason, on my last remaining Windows Device, which is a Surface Book 2 (a Microsoft made laptop!) with very vanilla configurations, everything slows to a crawl in the file manager and if I try to view images on a directory and do the "right arrow" for next or "left arrow" key for previous. It baffles me how something that never had so much slowness can be completely FUBAR'd I miss when Windows had standard apps that were very optimal and didn't slow and ruin my experience. I find myself opening that laptop less and less, and one of these days I might just slap Linux over it.

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by contextfree »

brokencode wrote: post #5
Almondsetat wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again

Microsoft has long had a tick tock cycle for Windows. 98: great. ME: bad. XP: great. Vista: bad. 7: great. 8: bad. 10: great. 11: bad

A fundamental problem with this is that "8" is two different releases (8.0 and 8.1), "10" is about 9 different releases, and "11" is three different releases so far (21H2, 22H2, and 24H2). It doesn't make much sense to lump all of them together because they share the same marketing name; technically there's no difference between going from 8.0 to 8.1 or from 22H2 to 24H2 and going from Vista to 7 or 10 20H1 to 11 21H2

Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Post by coffeeaddict1 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #18

Will any of this translate to Windows programs like File Manager? Whatever their Image viewer is even called? For some ungodly reason, on my last remaining Windows Device, which is a Surface Book 2 (a Microsoft made laptop!) with very vanilla configurations, everything slows to a crawl in the file manager and if I try to view images on a directory and do the "right arrow" for next or "left arrow" key for previous. It…

> Will any of this translate to Windows programs like File Manager?

Did you not read the thread? That's literally stated as an explicit goal.

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