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

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

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Post by throw4r5t6y3 »

wackget wrote: post #52
thunky wrote: post #41

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> I'm more and more inclined of switching my desktop (my main working machine) to Omarchy Never heard of it and the website and GitHub repo sure aren't doing a great job of describing it's benefits. "Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated" are vague and really aren't adjectives I'd be looking for in an OS.

When anything is described as "opinionated" I just read it as "wilfully inflexible".

It’s by David Heinemeier Hansson. Based on his writings, he’s very inflexible. He’s even unwilling to accept that a person of color who was born and raised in Britain can be British.

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

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Post by ipdashc »

kyboren wrote: post #325
ipdashc wrote: post #200

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Bit of a clickbaity way of phrasing it, but I'm also curious what the result was? From googling it I don't see any stories about recent changes to the calculator app, other than a few features like graphing.

I'm sorry, I wasn't intentionally trying to write clickbait, I was just agreeing with the parent and did not consider how it would come off to other parties. What happens is the calculator window pops up ~immediately, but the entire contents of the window are a stupid logo--for at least 5 full seconds--until the UI elements actually load and you can actually use the calculator to calculate things. The most basic thin…

No worries! Sorry, I phrased that rudely / like an accusation.

That makes sense though. Yeah, it is really depressing. I guess they just don't prioritize start time at all. The hilarious part is, like... Blender on my computer starts up almost instantly! Versus a calculator...

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

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Post by spydr »

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #286
kryogen1c wrote: post #55

The fact that, on expensive hardware, I can hit windows+r and start typing before the run box renders/loads is staggering, it beggars belief. Im generally a microsoft shill, but theyre really on the down hill slope. windows 11 is truly a masterpiece of changes no one asked for or wants, Teams is the least reliable piece of business software I've ever seen. New outlook does not have feature parity with old outlook and…

At work employees generally use okay machines, not great but still at least 3GHz i5 processor with 16GB of ram etc. and they only run an ERP client and a browser with a few tabs. Sometimes, I click on the windows button and it legit takes 3-4 seconds for windows to render the start menu that only has the program list, nothing else, just the list of programs. These machines with their 6/8 or so cores can do tasks at t…

I have the computer they handed me 3 years ago still. As soon as it powers on the fans go into full gear. Almost nothing running, just Edge. If I have VS on the thing hate crashes. 64gb ram

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

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Post by spydr »

The computers they give us at work are pretty powerful. Mine has 64 gigs of ram. When I power it on the fans instantly go into full blast mode because the computer is heating up. why? I have no idea I just run Edge and Teams, if I try to use VS my computer will crash. At home I use Mac and Linux (kububtu) and will never have windows on my devices again

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

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Post by steve1977 »

pjmlp wrote: post #249
steve1977 wrote: post #231

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What would I learn there?

That development on macOS UI frameworks isn't as rosy.

I'm not saying it's perfect. Just that it's less of a mess than the situation on Windows.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

steve1977 wrote: post #345
pjmlp wrote: post #249

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That development on macOS UI frameworks isn't as rosy.

I'm not saying it's perfect. Just that it's less of a mess than the situation on Windows.

Again, listen to those podcasts, especially how Apple has (not) handled bug reports.

Between Carbon, Cocoa, UI Touch, UI Kit, Catalyst, Swift UI, there is plenty to chose from, with many non overlapping capabilities.

Then there is naturally the whole plethora of Kits, with several deprecated and replaced by others without feature parity,

https://marcoeidinger.github.io/appleframeworks/

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

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Post by nar001 »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #329
CTOSian wrote: post #171

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you guys def have no idea about LTSC...

Where can I get the LTSC version of Windows 11 as a private customer?

You can't in a legit way, but if you find an ISO of it (like on massgrave) you can install it and activate it

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

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Post by nar001 »

emeril wrote: post #290
cmxch wrote: post #252

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Form an LLC and present yourself as a small business interested in IoT.

or just buy a cd key from a wholesaler for $20 :) probably won't be disconnected... been using such a cd key for months w/o issue and my win11 experience isn't that painful

If you're gonna pay 20 bucks to someone who isn't even allowed to sell you a key, why not just activate it with massgrave?

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

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Post by danhau »

Aldipower wrote: post #145

Just an anecdote from yesterday. I got an old Pentium 4 1,5Ghz from a friend, put a Terratec EWX 24/96 soundcard in, installed WinXP, turned automatic updates off and installed a software synth, Native Instruments FM7, connected a midi keyboard via the gameport. Literally 2ms latency and no midi jitter! With an 25 years old setup! And it just works, without any distractions. Really, I almost cried as I saw that. I fe…

Apparently Vista introduced a new audio stack with higher processing overhead and thus latency.

I used to boot up XP in a VM occasionally. It‘s amazing how streamlined everything felt, inviting you to be productive. This was before the Electron apocalypse. Almost all UI looked the same, behaved the same and was easy on the eyes (remember when widgets had depth?).

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