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Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad," even with monster PC (www.techspot.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeze@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Should just use Linux, tbh.

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[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is heavy for a Linux distro, because it uses the heaviest DE (GNOME), uses the less optimized Snap packages, and perhaps has other Canonical telemetry or something.

If you want better performance, try something with a lightweight DE. I have a laptop running Lubuntu (essentially Ubuntu with LXQt instead of GNOME), and it's actually quite responsive, at least for basic system functions.

Because if you run anything on the web with a 10 year old CPU, it's gonna suck due to the huge web browsers accompanying the bloated websites. Even on a well optimized website, the browser overhead is significant on bad hardware, especially regarding the launch time of the browser.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I prefer and use Lubuntu, before going for Mint XFCE, and now Bazzite (because gaming). However, regardless of DE, because I absolutely pack my systems with RAM, the bottleneck is not the memory, it's the cpu in cases of old systems.