Microsoft wants to know why, exactly, Windows 11 is slow, so it’s adding a feature in the latest Insider Preview to collect data when a Windows 11 machine is experiencing slowness or sluggishness.
Plot twist: Microsoft finds out that data collection is the reason Windows 11 is so slow.
@oleksandr What blows my mind is that Windows has always sucked, been full of bloat, and been sluggish compared to alternatives like macOS or Linux. Maybe Windows 95/98 wasn't so bad, if memory serves me right. Windows XP ran pretty hot whenever it came out, but later on was quite solid in it later years. However, even still, Mac OS X absolutely wiped the floor with them (Mac OS 9 wasn't great). I didn't have experience with Linux until much later on, so I cannot speak anecdotally about it. But, I can attest that Windows has always been just an overall garbage experience.
Not quite. Back in the Win 3.11-XP days, it was the best option on the desktop.
Macs only started getting competitive around the turn of the millennium.
And even then, you were placing yourself in a single-source ecosystem
@amerika I was using both Windows XP and early OS X back in those days, and OS X was clearly a better OS and overall experience. Although, XP really wasn't that bad as far as Windows versions are concerned. @oleksandr
I mean, I hate Windows 11, but I think the backstory needs to be told.
It was the best product for a long time, at least if you wanted flexibility.
Most of us were running Windows NT at that time. More stuff worked on it than did on the Macs at the time.
@amerika I haven't used Windows as a mainstay OS since Windows 98. Around 2001/2002 moved to Mac and never looked back until going to Linux. Frequently used Windows throughout that whole time, though, for work and with friends and family members. The entire Windows XP-Vista-7-8 was always terrible compared to Mac's OS X/macOS. Windows 10 didn't seem too bad. Windows 11 seems like a reversion back to Windows being shitty-as-standard. That being said, I use Outlook for my email and stuff. @oleksandr
I used Mac during the 1980s, then figured out the company was a scam and bailed.
Have to use both Lunix and Windows for work, prefer BSD for personal choice.
@amerika Still use MacOS. Talking to you now from a MacBook. Very happy with Apple computing, although I hate their mobile devices like iPhones and iPads and the entire iOS family of devices and such. But, their computers and macOS are consistently a good experience. I do have problems and reservations with how locked down and closed their hardware is, however. I also use Linux for work and personal use as well. @oleksandr
The nice thing about Lunix is that you can throw it on a (reasonable) white box and have a functional machine relatively quickly
The sound card may never work but oh well
And it's very bloated now, but so is FreeBSD... same problems as with commercial software.
I have some thin clients I've put 9x on in the past decade, and I forgot how you might install it then it'll be totally unstable until you reinstall it again the exact same way but magically it's totally ok because of solar flares reflecting off of Jupiter.
I ran 95 on a 386sx, and it wasn't perfect but it was basically fine. You wanted to keep it clean.
Apple has a bad habit of producing something that is absolutely world-changing, something that completely changes the game, and then doing absolutely nothing with it for decades. I had an iPod touch back around the time that iPhones were still the new hotness, and it was absolutely incredible. The problem is that it is now 18 years later and you're basically looking at the exact same device. My first Android device came later, it was on cupcake I believe, and over the next 5 years Android was constantly making massive strides forwards.
Same with the OS X -- it was the most revolutionary thing the world had ever seen when it first came out, but that was a long time ago now.
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