• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    i use win 11 and i can’t remember the last time i used the start button. there is no need.

  • Ptsf@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    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. 🪦

  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br
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    30 days ago

    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.

  • Jourei@lemm.eeEnglish
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    29 days ago

    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.

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
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      29 days ago

      On windows 11 or windows 10?

      The <win10 context menu is old and poorly designed. Each app that declares itself on the right click menu gets to hold up the entire menu for like 3 seconds each. So if you have one poorly designed app that can appear on that list your right click menu will be super slow. Try to go through the right click menu and disable each app that appears one by one until you find the culprit.

      Windows has this official tool, if you go to the explorer tab and find …/contextMenuHandlers section you can easily disable them one by one but i haven’t used it personally.

      Win11 tried to fix this and moved to a different model but in doing so made the first level right click menu functionally useless.

      • Jourei@lemm.eeEnglish
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        29 days ago

        Win11. I remember it being fine in Win10, though I didn’t have that many applications there, now I should have even less though.

        Maybe I’ll look at what I have there now, in case I indeed have a misbehaving app.

  • kshade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    30 days ago

    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?

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    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.

  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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    30 days ago

    React Native’s new architecture is not that bad.

    You basically just got a single lightweight JavaScript thread that runs your rendering and updating logic, and 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 introduce tons of inefficiencies like double rendering etc.

  • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    30 days ago

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

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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      30 days ago

      Yes, the most popular OS on the planets used by the most people on a daily basis, also has a high number of memes about it. Shocking. What information you’ve gleaned.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        For what it’s worth, just because something is popular does not mean it’s perfect, or even better.

        I think a lot of the complaints about Windows 11 are overblown, but a lot aren’t. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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          30 days ago

          Oh I don’t think it remotely is. I just find it irritating that someone sees lots of complaints about the most popular thing and takes that as an indication that it’s bad, and ignores the indication that it’s not (it being the most popular thing).

          Lots of complaints about something popular literally means nothing on its own. The content of those complaints have validity, but there’s nothing to learn from their metadata.

          • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
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            30 days ago

            Actually lots of complaints has meaning. It means lots of people have problems with it. It doesn’t mean anything else but this.

            • lemming@sh.itjust.works
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              30 days ago

              Yes. But if you have many complaints from MANY MANY users, it may not mean anything serious, it could still mean a very small fraction have problems. Absolute number means very little without context. That’s the purpose of the previous comment. Please note how it doesn’t say anything about qualities of Windows.

      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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        30 days ago

        Being the single OS that has had a chokehold on the prebuilt computer industry for ages doesn’t mean it’s popular. It’s also used in tons of workplaces where people don’t have a choice. High number doesn’t automatically correlate to “popular.”

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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          30 days ago

          I didn’t mean like people’s choice popular, I just meant most used. The more something is used the more memes you’ll see about it’s issues.

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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        30 days ago

        the most popular OS

        It’s barely the second most popular OS, after Android. iOS is pretty close behind it. And yet the amount of complaints Windows gets seems to be far higher than that of Android.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
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          30 days ago

          Fair point, I would argue that it’s not e entirely fair to compare a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility, for a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications, but it’s not entirely unfair either, they’re still both OSes and lots of the complaints have nothing to do with the burden of legacy support.

          • mcv@lemm.eeEnglish
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            30 days ago

            Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.

            • black0ut@pawb.social
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              30 days ago

              This is true, especially for games. But for some reason, even though some compatibility features have been removed from windows, others still remain. Hell, if you look into System32, you can still find the dialer app from windows 95 (still with its original icon, btw!), or Windows Vista’s “bubbles” screensaver, and they still run.

              Edit: this is not a windows praise, it’s a critique. Those parts are dead weight, and windows isn’t even that good at offering compatibility for old software

          • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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            30 days ago

            a mobile OS that basically eschews backwards compatibility

            I have an app built for Android 4 running on my Android 15 device. It looks ugly but it works. Of course other apps will not be so lucky, but some backwards compat is absolutely there.

            a desktop OS that can still run 30 year old applications

            Not really, Microsoft is steadily breaking old stuff. For example lot of 10-15 year old software that was doing something hardware-related would be broken now due to driver signing changes/restrictions (e.g. WinRing0 things).

  • Read Bio@lemm.eeEnglish
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    30 days ago

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

  • Shape4985@lemmy.ml
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    30 days ago

    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!