They're going to cut the bloat a little to get people who are windows 10 holdouts to move....
Then they'll slowly put it back in ..
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I have a 128GB windows machine at work, its still sluggish as hell
Especially the start menu
It happens when it's a react application...
Remember when windows XP could only make use of a maximum of 4GB of RAM?
I put it to you: What has actually improved in the OS for the end user since then?
For what most people use their computer for Win95 was already good enough. Microsoft has just been charging for the same old shit since then.
Microsoft says a lot of things
So does Linux 🤷 And that comes with a bunch of other advantages.
8gb of RAM? My phone has 8 and can play ZZZ while playng music and chatting on Discord. Windows can't even tell me the weather, Edge won't even open, the screen resolution changed sometimes (mid session) and there's Coslop in the damn text editor. RAM was never the issue, it's the whole OS.
Then RAM isn't your issue. 8GB is just fine if there's not a bunch of bloat.
They put everything into prefetch didnt they
Again.. “Look at this performance improvement we really should’ve always had, also what tracking ID?”
Too little, too late
They're gonna try their damndest to stop this Linux and MacOS exodus.
I hope they fail for a long time. I don't want windows to go away, less competition is bad, but I REALLY don't want people crawling back already before microslop has actually learned a damn thing.
I still think it is wild that if you told someone 10 years ago that MacOS market share would skyrocket and that Apple started to make fairly conpetitively priced computers with their own chips to where it is a legit alternative to a typical laptop shopper, you would have been called crazy.
I'm sure many hate Apple in Lemmy side, I myself use SailfishOS and Linux, but you have to agree that to your normal person, Apple is a very conpetitive option for laptops nowadays which was previously not the case.
Right?!? It's like we're in the upside down or something at this point.
I've been watching the steam hardware survey very closely this year.
I run Fedora KDE but my wife needed a good laptop for work this year. Mac Neo was a no brainer, we got it for the initial $600 and it's a fantastic piece of tech, actually unbelievable how much value is there.
More responsive ≠ more reliable