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[–] pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Windows 11 a newcomer?

Dude it's already like 5-ish years old.

Also, I'm going to be very technical here and I don't care if people hate it. But Windows 10 and 11 both outpaced XP and I believe that once the OS reaches a user login, that still counts as the OS as booted up.

Other than that, yeah it's really a no-brainer why Windows 11 lost in just about every category except the boot sequence, save being behind 8.1

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I "early adopted" Win 11 when the Ryzen 5600X came out (late 2020 i think?) and it was objectively better at release. All MS had to do was fix the start button and then not fuck with it and I'm sure there would have been way less hatorade flowing.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I "early adopted" Win 11 when the Ryzen 5600X came out (late 2020 i think?) and it was objectively better at release. All MS had to do was insert AI

  • All that Satya Nadella read... probably
[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

also look on the bright side... at least they haven't given Clippy sentience yet!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

frfr. bill gates must be rolling over in his grave.

[–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i’d like to be in your alternative universe where bill gates dies

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

granted, but now your username is "gouthaver87"

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Boy was in the files. He wishing he was dead rn

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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

My father bought my nephews laptops for Xmas and didn’t talk to me about it before purchasing. He got them an i3 for one and a Ryzen 7 for the other with both having 8gb of ram for the memory and I just sighed. Like what sales person convinced you to go with 8gb of ram for Windows 11? So sad for their use.

[–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 4 points 3 months ago

[Screaming in linux]

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Saw this video on YouTube a few days ago, it’s really interesting. Seemed like XP, 7 and (somehow 8.1) ran pretty good. Here’s the video for anyone wanting to see it :P https://youtu.be/7VZJO-hOT4c

Tho while 8 may be more performant, it’s also less usable imo. Would like to see how this stacks up with different OSs!

[–] LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Windows 8.1 was great. My favourite iteration of Windows ever.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Yes officer, this comment right here.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'm more impressed that the same hardware ran so many versions of Windows.

[–] tehevilone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Of course Win11 ran slow, the CPU the tests were done on is 6 generations behind the official cutoff. I'd rather see the results from the same experiment run on a i5-8400, which is min specs.

It'll still be slow, but at least it won't be an unsupported platform.

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