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Isn’t Microsoft stabbing itself in the foot? 11 is so bad it’s bogging down regular machines available before this nonsense
11 uses barely more resources than end of the run windows 10.
Hell half the reason I upgraded for certain games and programs.
I don't find that. I had to upgrade our corporate machine to best on market work station to run 11 properly and its still chugs. It's also noticeable slower with apps, a downwars trend from 7 to 10 and now 11.
One thing that totally freezes it for too long is office auto installs ai.exe and aimgr.DLL in some deep folder place. If I delete them the system is somewhat better, but updates put them back
Define "best on the market work station". I've used 11 on a 10th gen ulv i5 laptop and it ran just fine, no worse than with 10 on it.
From the minor direct X improvements, all the way to actually supporting hybrid CPU architectures and 6ghz there's a lot of ways 11 performs better.
At the time of purchase it was latest Ultra9 CPU with 22 cores, 64 gig RAM , nvidie RTX3000, nvme drives. Still sluggish with windows.
11 runs great on 13 year old hardware, once you debloat it.