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Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by thesnide » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:00 PM UTC

Flux159 wrote: post #15

"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law On a more serious note, I really only use Windows for games & I'm still always frustrated with how many updates (& restarts during updates) Windows needs. My fans are always constantly spinning on Windows too (laptop or desktop) whereas my Mac & Linux machines are generally silent outside of heavy load.

I'm now even using wine & proton for it. Thanks to Valve only very few games don't work.

And it's not that i don't like windows, it is just too damn slow for me.

And no. I do not want to upgrade my gear every 2 years or so

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by snowram » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

the__alchemist wrote: post #2

Out of the loop: Why is Windows 11 discussion trending over the past few months? It was released 4 years ago, and the most notable changes from the previous edition are a tabbed file browser, and the taskbar icons are now in the middle.

Multiple reasons : IA pushback, better gaming experience, Linux becoming more and more mainstream with distro like Bazzite and CachyOS.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by epolanski » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

richard_chase wrote: post #14

I switched to Linux after Windows started showing me propaganda on the screen where you enter your password. To me, that's diabolical and forced me to make the switch. Sorry, I don't wish to "Learn more about Black-Owned Businesses" just to access my computer.

What propaganda? I only get a new background with some info related to it (like what's the place of the picture).

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by Abekkus » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

nilamo wrote: post #20

richard_chase wrote: post #14

I switched to Linux after Windows started showing me propaganda on the screen where you enter your password. To me, that's diabolical and forced me to make the switch. Sorry, I don't wish to "Learn more about Black-Owned Businesses" just to access my computer.

I, too, am irrationally furious at microsoft for forcing me to look at nature scapes and offering a link to learn more if I wanted.

Those landscape photos are a crappy hypnotic effort meant to try and dissociate Microsoft from the feeling most people have when they have to login on a Monday Morning.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by mapontosevenths » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

mixel wrote: post #3

It's not shocking they added even more bloatware to every microsoft program so even with the same OS kernel it would probably take longer. At this point it also got out of hand for Microsoft themselves if you have heard how they are going to speed up the explorer. Not by making it faster but by preloading it on startup so it feels snappier, there are 20 years of technical debt in I think you cannot save this anymore…

The last time this subject came up someone in the thread jumped up to explain to me how Windows 11 has all these great new features that make it worth being many times less performant.

Every feature they listed was some anti-consumer thing that only a corporate customer would ever care about or want. Every single one.

What I learned is that Windows 11 is great for the customer, I'm just not the customer. I'm just the dummy who paid for it.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by heraldgeezer » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

It is crazy bad on low powered hardware like my work laptop. It has an Intel Ultra 7 Processor 155U. Wow! An i7!

Not so fast, the u there means ultrabook. Crammed into a too small chassis, this thing chokes even when using Edge or Chrome to work on Jira.

Windows 11 JS Web Start menu does not help...

Windows 11 is "fine" on my powerful desktop gaming CPU, but that is just brute-forcing it.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by 0_____0 » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

epolanski wrote: post #23

richard_chase wrote: post #14

I switched to Linux after Windows started showing me propaganda on the screen where you enter your password. To me, that's diabolical and forced me to make the switch. Sorry, I don't wish to "Learn more about Black-Owned Businesses" just to access my computer.

What propaganda? I only get a new background with some info related to it (like what's the place of the picture).

I just reinstalled Windows, so I've had the joy of a bunch of stupid MS stuff (why did you make my /~ homedir the first five letters of my email? WHY?) but I have to admit, this, I have not encountered.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by heraldgeezer » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

I once had to remote into a Windows XP machine somehow running on an older Intel i5 (first or 2nd gen). Still overkill for XP.

It was CRAZY fast, over Teamviewer it felt better and faster than my local machine... Sad times.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by epolanski » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

I liked the path windows was going in late 2010s. WSL, power toys, many great utils, great performance.

But it has since then stalled and got increasingly worse. Especially with this AI shoving everywhere, not even mentioning getting ads at some point in notifications and start menu.

I'm not particularly in love with MacOS either (but have no realistic alternative on my MacBooks).

I'm more and more inclined of switching my desktop (my main working machine) to Omarchy, two coworkers in my team use it and love it and seems the sweet spot for what I need as a dev without the annoyance of Windows or the god awful macos.

Re: Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

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Post by nilamo » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:06 PM UTC

Abekkus wrote: post #24

nilamo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, too, am irrationally furious at microsoft for forcing me to look at nature scapes and offering a link to learn more if I wanted.

Those landscape photos are a crappy hypnotic effort meant to try and dissociate Microsoft from the feeling most people have when they have to login on a Monday Morning.

Still, complaining about something you can only possibly see when you're not using the computer is such a minor thing, whether you like it or not, I cant find myself to care in any amount.