This is partly to do with the start menu trying to act like a search engine. Its frustrating when you are looking for a document or application and it searches the web.

Microsoft why can we not turn this off!

Windows is basically malware now. My wife is forced to use W11 for work and she fucking hates it with a passion (and that’s the pared down IT version).

I pulled out my old gaming laptop that had been unplugged for quite a while and found it somehow updated itself to W11. I immediately wiped the computer and installed Nobara as the main OS. No regrets, no issues, and no half-assed bullshit.

Windows on the ASUS ROG Ally is absolute dog shit. It would constantly reboot to install unwanted updates that offered zero value on a handheld (let alone anything).

Nothing I own will ever run Windows.

Windows isn’t popular. It’s forced onto tons of prebuilt computers and most people wouldn’t know what to use instead. Fuck Windows. Rant over.

I haven’t used windows in so long, the only thing I know about it is the incredibly high volume of complaints regarding it.

I'm thinking that maybe I should upgrade my old Win 10 Pro laptop to Windows 11 Pro, "just in case", instead of going full Linux everywhere.

And then I read shite like this.

You're not making it easy for me Microsoft.

Yep it's pretty bad...

Microsoft couldn’t think about this while they were developing the OS, no?

And yet it's somehow less awful than the Windows 10 start menu. Is it still improvement if you put the bar under the floor yourself?

No wonder why Windows is sluggish
I thought they were using winui or win32 ngl

React Native's new architecture is not that bad.

You basically just got a single lightweight JavaScript thread that runs your update loop around which components should be rendered and updated, but then all the components are bound directly to underlying C++ native components.

I would still expect the start menu to be aiming for zero dependencies and as fast a start as humanly possible, but it's not that crazy compared to something like Electron (which itself is not as inherently bad as most people make it out to be).

The real problem with slow web apps has less to do with the architecture of the apps, and more to do with them letting developers build apps really quickly and easily, meaning that you often have apps built by developers who don't entirely know what they're doing, and they introduce tons of inefficiencies like double rendering etc.

Is right click menu one too? After boot, it always takes like 5 seconds for it to show up, recurring times it takes <1 second (not instant). I run last gen ryzen somethingsomethingXD and 4070 so my PC can definitely run a context menu.

Gosh, after all the hacks I do to Windows I often forget how terrible the experience is for all my users our there raw dogging it. 🪦

So that's why it is so freaking slow! 💩🤡💩🤡

It's not that bad by default, it just gives it a disadvantage in terms of performance, but if you care about it you can still make it run smooth and be not-that-heavy. Microsoft just doesn't.

Best thing about Windows 11 is that my hardware doesn’t support it

Are you really asking?