None of you read the article. His complaint pertains to the Start Menu, which I agree is atrocious. Mine never indexes Steam. If you wanted to compare this to alternatives you'd have to look at Mac's Spotlight, or the Linux tools dmenu or rofi. Dmenu and rofi kick the shit out of Window's Start Menu for my use cases. I want you to find my applications, that's it. The Start Menu consistently jumbles settings, web searches, and shit I don't want (why does searching User Accounts not bring up User Accounts to the fucken top?) It is comically bad, but its not talking about fucken gaming performance.

The CPU speed and ram size is irrelevant in this case, it's slow because it needs to load ads and sponsored results from internet first

The way I search on all my Windows devices is:

Install PowerToys.

Install Everything

Install Everything extension for PowerToys Search

Change PowerToys Search to open with Windows key and spacebar

Best search experience I’ve ever had on my Windows machines.

Windows 11 exists for the sole purpose of requiring tpm 2.0 in order to boost new PC sales. 10+ year old hardware worked perfectly fine running win 10 and PC manufacturers were steadily losing sales as there was little or no need for organizations to replace what they had. The decision to make that requirement will result in millions of PCs going in the trash.

When all the innovations are just ads and telemetry, shit is going to slow down.

Interesting, considering I haven't noticed... and gaming benchmarks have shown a minimal if any difference in gaming performance between Windows, stripped down Windows, and Linux. You'd have to split hairs to find it.

This 16-bit looking shit ad that I didn't ask for and can't remove unless I choose yes or no was the last straw for me. Baking Language Model AI (Copilot) is nothing I want, just like I didn't want Cortana, or Edge. Or the dark pattern requests to consider edge. Nor the new Windows setup screen that sometimes occurs after an update which is just a sly way of shoving another option to make Edge my default browser again.

I've moved my laptop to Linux around December. Now I'm going to move my gaming PC over to Linux. I'm just done.

It's amazing Microsoft has mismanaged their OS so badly that even gaming increasingly makes little sense on the platform. Why spend extra money on hardware just to have your performance stripped away by a bloated Windows?

Start menu is kinda useless, I mostly use it for my pinned items.

Try to switch desktops with 2 different hi res wallpapers, peak Windows performance.

Allegedly, the windows kernel scheduler was superior to Linux's CFS scheduler in certain select metrics.

Except it didn't matter anyway because all of the UWP apps were so crappily made and Microsoft forgot to hire actual devs for their UI so everything lagged and loaded slow.

Oh and it turns out the windows scheduler also handled multi core pretty poorly so people with new hardware suffered performance losses.

And Linux upgraded to the EEVDF scheduler which AFAIK makes it even better than before.

This is what I've been saying for years. Windows 11 is a big step backwards for performance.

I have a beefy laptop with W11 and a Ryzen 9 5900HX and 32GB RAM and a high end SSD, but the start menu takes up to a full second to open, the File manager takes 2-3 seconds to open and 1 second to "work on" the directory I entered, task manager takes like 5 seconds now, and sometimes my CPU randomly spikes to 80+ degrees C while the desktop is idle.

On Ubuntu (not known for being lightweight, quite the contrary in the Linux world), there is extremely minimal lag and basic system functions are near instant. I'd use it more if the WiFi was more reliable (my average packet loss is 39% in some frequently visited areas where Windows doesn't struggle at all)

Also, for work I used a W10 desktop with a i7-8700K CPU and random SSD, and nothing in the OS lagged or was unresponsive. File manager was nearly instant, even when the system was hit with significant load elsewhere.

I would love to swap to Linux if I could play all my games without having to dual boot etc. Steam have done wonders with the proton compatability on steamdeck so there is hope but a lot of my hardware also requires software that is windows only too.

It might be a stupid comment I'm no Linux expert, but looking forward to the steamOS coming out for PC.

Don't worry, while you are waiting for Windows to react to your input, you can enjoy watching some ads in the near future! :-)

• Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

It's incredible how the startup performance of EventViewer is as bad as it was 15 years ago.....

one user noted, going to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and changing MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to 0.

If that variable means what I think it means, how on earth was it ever approved?

It's really not... I use Windows 11 for work (dev) and gaming and it's fine.

The trend continues. 11 trash, 10 decent (with a little work tbh), 8 trash, 7 decent, vista trash, xp decent...

I guess I'm biased because I've been using Windows since when it was TRULY awful. (386/3.1/3.11)

https://youtu.be/noEHHB6rnMI

This looks like a normal corporate video, but it goes OFF THE RAILS at the 7 minute mark.

https://youtu.be/noEHHB6rnMI#t=7m

Win 11 hasn't really given me problems.

Reason number #99 to make the switch to linux.

I'm impressed at the balanced conversations in this submission. People who are both for and against Windows and Linux. As I remember, it felt like everyone was heavily biased towards Linux and hated everything about Windows 6 months ago.

The plan for me is to go full-time Linux once I'm forced to move off Win10. I already use it a lot but I'm waiting on a few holdouts.

Looks more like a bug than performance problem. Anyways start menu search has felt worse ever since Windows 8. For the most part it works, but occasionally you get random issues like these.

Things like PowerToys Run offer a much better search experience.