this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
940 points (94.0% liked)
Technology
60058 readers
1771 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
in the time it takes my work windows laptop to get from a login screen to a usable desktop, with the cpu idle, I rebooted and signed in to my linux desktop, and performed a restart. Several times.
My win11 laptop is practically instant to boot up
Ironically, it takes my work Thinkpad 3x as long to come out of hibernation than to boot. Thanks corporate policy!
I have that behavior as well, but it's not a Windows issue, it's all the bloat software that IT installed on it. It's wild how much it kills this laptop compared to any other PC, not just in login times.
Take a windows computer and don't have it managed by a company. Manage it yourself. It will slow down over time as the registry and other shit get gunked up over time. I run freebsd, Linux, windows, and mac here and I can tell you for sure after a length of time there's no speeding up windows. You just need to reinstall it.
That hasn't really been my experience. The computers I own have had windows for multiple years. I tend to install it when first setting up and never again.
The work laptop has good specs but trash performance from day one that I got it. I had a laptop that I gave away that was much lower spec than the work laptop and it ran better in every way, probably because it had none of the bloat.
Windows in my opinion has huge issues in other areas but performance hasn't been one of them in the last 15 years for me, probably in part because I avoid running any heavy services in the background.
I guess we need to define performance. The OS operates slowly over time. Likely you'll notice no difference playing your games or something.
If I can't notice a difference while playing games, web browsing, video and photo editing, and working in blender and cad software, what is left to define slow operation? It operating slow should be something noticeable for it to be an issue.
It used to be a problem in windows 98 days, I remember as much. And it is a problem on my work computer but that is day one config from the company, not over time degradation.
Like I said, I dislike windows and it's dark pattern bullshit as much as the next guy, but performance has not been one of my issues with it on my personal devices.
That doesn't happen since Windows 98 days, lol.
No, it still happens. Unless you don't do anything on your computer. If you boot it up and read a spreadsheet and shut it down and do this for 10 years, sure.
Except that it doesn't.
Well, I don't use a laptop, but my desktop boots into usable state in a few seconds. Not sure what your problem is, but it's most likely between a keyboard and a chair.
How much ram does it have? 8gb? Genuinely curious. I have a work laptop with 8gb and one with 32....
both have 16 gb ram. Older desktop, newer laptop, so cpu performance is roughly equal. Both use an ssd
My 32gb machine is still running windows 10 and I have been dreading having to switch. I figured that the 8gb was the reason why the other was sluggish now I'm not so sure. I haven't upgraded my personal devices yet either. I hate that they keep trying to reinvent the wheel with the "metro" backend that they built with windows 8. I saw that even the devices and printers control panel was fully moved into the settings app.... Thanks for the reply, I will probably try to hold out a little longer .....