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Doesn't Windows 11 in practice require even more memory than Windows 10 to operate with decent performance?
Meanwhile my Linux gaming PC seems to actually use less memory than back when it was a Windows machine.
My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.
As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it's an issue.
Oh yeah. If you've got 4 GB ram, win 11 is going to absolutely skullfuck that machine.
Are you using scaling?
On my work laptop dragging a window from one monitor to the next would make them "snag" in between borders as they struggled and stuttered trying to change the scale.
It looked soooo fucking stupid I couldn't believe my eyes
Many such moments with the PCs at work. I can't wait to retire and never have to deal with anything modern again. What absolute dogshit and slop computers have become.
I got unreasonably upset the other day when I realized that windows can no longer seem to sort folders by size anymore.
You can tell just by the fan noise or monitoring cpu usage. Win 11 uses more cpu regularly.
I’m not sure if it’s bad, because they changed other things too like the start menu, and it’s less responsive.
Single app performance is about the same as 10.
The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can't convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is "supposed" to be good for 2 more years.
Constant surveillance will do that. Legit “telemetry” wouldn’t be using that much processing power.
I’m thinking Recall is just Microsoft trying to cut costs on their servers processing all the surveillance, and force users to pay the costs of all the extra electricity and equipment needed.
Nah it's probably just Edge (aka Chrome) all over the new UI.
That wouldn’t show in the task manager as telemetry.