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I use an overpowered (for my type of job) modern i7 computer with 32G of ram and modern 1TB ssd. It still does take several seconds to open start menu, same fo
by szszrk 2y ago
I use an overpowered (for my type of job) modern i7 computer with 32G of ram and modern 1TB ssd.
It still does take several seconds to open start menu, same for calculator. Explorer takes sometimes a minute so I have a different file manager open constantly.
The trick is to combine windows with any type of DLP enterprise software. It consistently delivers this horrible experience.
But aside from poor enterprise setups, try opening win11 start menu on a computer that has internet, just veeery slow. Suddenly you will miss those times of win95 loading start menu icons one by one, with a soundtrack of scrubbing HDD.
I don't miss those times purely because of huge stability differences. 20 years ago or so, systems crashed all the time and filesystems had to be repaired constantly. I even clearly recall how often was a kernel panic on random Linux distro, when you tried early docker.
- raverbashing 2y agoYeah Windows 11 is a bag of delays and buggy interfaces (and telemetry) It's frankly ridiculous how everything "kinda seems to work" but not really
- tim333 2y agoYeah. Re the >yet computers don't feel much faster it depends on the computer rather. The slowest I've experienced was a cheap laptop with Windows Vista where just right clicking on an icon to see the menu could take like 30 seconds. I'm now on an M1 macbook air where everything is pretty much instant. That said the other instant computer I had was a Psion 3 which came out 33 years ago so it's down to the individual design I guess. Windows has always been kind of bad to varying degrees.
- dubcee349 2y agothe most important part of speed these days is NVRAM not just a SSD. If you are using a standard SSD things will still be much slower.
- bayindirh 2y agoI think something is very wrong when a Linux installation gets more responsive and Windows installation gets slower as time passes and software gets updated. I can still run a Debian 12 with KDE on a standard SSD way faster than a Win 11 installation on a NVMe, and that installation is 8 years old, and runs tons of applications at any given time.
- ahartmetz 2y agoOn Linux, the difference between a good SSD and an NVMe drive is noticeable if you pay attention, but not really important. I say that as someone who cares about performance and does pay attention.