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i had the same experience after they revamped the Windows Calculator. it went from instantaneous to ~2s startup with UI jank. (highly recommend Notepad3) i do

i had the same experience after they revamped the Windows Calculator. it went from instantaneous to ~2s startup with UI jank. (highly recommend Notepad3) i don't miss the ceremony of trying to debloat Windows after every unstoppable auto-update; what a goddamn nightmare that was. now permanently on EndeavourOS KDE/Plasma and everything "just works, very fast". i do wish that Affinity products where available for Linux, i dont think you can run them with Proton/Wine :(

jiggawatts 4y ago
I wrote a rant about the Windows Calculator change as well. They're loading things like Windows 10 Hello for Business login recovery assistant modules, NVIDIA telemetry, creating threadpools, writing multiple log files, and on and on. If you asked me what a calculator app "should" do, none of those would ever enter into my brain.
yyyk 4y ago
I didn't get a chance to use the new calculator yet (I usually use Linux. Windows 11 changes make it unlikely I'll 'upgrade' a VM). Is it this one? https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator
- userbinator 4y ago
  Yes, that's the horrible telemetry-infested (yes, really!) UWP monstrosity that MS was proud to open-source instead of the good old classic one (whose source got leaked a long time ago...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26579481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26579481