My work pc with win 11 and 64g of ram is slower than my linux pc with 15 year old hardware
Title kind of says it all but it's still baffling. Running an old ass amd fx with 24 gig ram in the other computer. Work laptop is an i7 with 64 gigs of ram and is still slower in daily use. Both have ssd boot drives.
Granted im comparing desktop and laptop. But a 15 year difference is pretty crazy to me.
Windows being slower as it is, your work machine likely also has a ton of endpoint security and monitoring tools installed that are constantly running.
and probably all the files in personal folders are synced to onedrive.
Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.
Before that, lots of effort was put into efficiency, specifically in the OS.
Now days, hardware is so fast, and storage has become so large, the only way to force people to buy new hardware is to create total bloatware and planed obsolescence.
I'm forced to use windows for work, and have been on 11 for a while now. Many basic tasks are indeed much slower.
I finally have my own home PC for the first time in decades, and this is one of the many reasons I plan on switching it to linux.
I want all that horse power going into graphics and gaming, not running a shit OS.
Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.
The internet will also bring even a modern machine to it's knees. I recently upgraded my computer at home because the poor 8th gen 6 core i5 was crying in pain. Thanks modern web devs.
Fuck web devs
No, I dont need 30 JS scripts from font.net, google, shopify, sentry, and some bullshit to run in order to look at your Website. I dont need your site to be a fucking unparseable slideshow because every text is a JS script so it can glow in rainbow colors. If I scroll, I want to scroll your goddamn website and not look at a video that only play when you scroll down.
I want a static website that 90% consists of text and
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that I can download with curl and view like it was the real one.Odd, my Core2Duo really struggles on Video playback, browsing, running large applications etc... and that's less than 20 years old.
Your work machine is running 18 copies of McAfee or whatever. Of course it's going to be slower.
That's because ripping into your disk for every click and key press, oh and the constant recording, is very taxing :)
I was told these machines have that feature "disabled" but I trust that as much as a politicians word.
Current versions of Windows really feel like they're chugging under the hood. I got a GPD Win Max 2 last year, with 64GB RAM, an eight-core Ryzen and an RTX-capable GPU, it's a beast of a machine.
The start menu still takes a second to open. The explorer menu is loading in after the window has opened. Doing a right-click to open context menus also takes longer than it should take (and it's noticeably quicker when you bring the old context menus back). Every time you do an action in Windows 11 it feels like an old geezer gets up from his wheelchair, fights a cough attack and almost collapses while trying to go to the bathroom.
I once read that the new start menu and those fancy explorer ribbons and context menus are written in React, so I guess the rendering engine is just a massive bloated browser nowadays that puts your system under way more load than it needs to.
Compared to that, Fedora 42 is blazingly fast on this machine. With a Samsung SSD the whole thing was installed in five minutes and KDE Plasma is just so snappy - everything opens instantly and it never feels like my machine needs to think for a second before displaying something. Now that we've also reached higher FPS in games with Proton in some scenarious, there is no good reason for me to even use Windows anymore.
My work M1 Mac is so slowed down with MS security shit that I installed Linux under Parallels to make it run faster.
go build usually takes 8s vs 1s on Linux. Running mvp takes up to 12s vs instant on Linux.
It is the same machine and Linux is running under emulator! Microsoft must die...
Yeah its pretty bad. I have two dell latitudes, one from about 2015 and one newish one. Opensuse on the old one, Win11 on the new one, guess which one isn't all laggy
Yes, Windows sucks. What's your question?
Sounds like your organizations Windows 11 image is bloated and or your adnin didn't set much in the way of group policy. It could also be one of those shit corporate security products eating up resources.
Talk to your admins to see if you can speed it up. One of my work machines has a 8th gen Intel i5 with 48gb of ram and it is quick and snappy. I got permission to strip out Onedrive and some other junk which helped a lot. I also disabled all of the startup apps.
The old 1-2 punch. Cyberark left, Trellix right cross.
And the i7 is.... What.... I7 in laptops don't mean a lot as many are low speed CPUs and some are high where as on desktop they are almost always high-end.
Regardless it's an i7 that is 15 years newer than my amd fx, and the fx wasn't a good cpu when it was new . I don't recall the i7 model off the top of my head
I always preferred the AMD branch pipeline over Intel. Sadly I haven't used an AM since that FX era, but I used that until about 5 years ago and still preferred it to that day's Intels.
You're exaggerating.
IDK, I have the same experience. It takes 10 good seconds to open the file manager on my win11 work PC with 32GB of ram and 12x CPU threads. It also takes 5 minutes from power up to usable desktop. My Clevo laptop from 2011 with 4x cores and 8GB of RAM sporting Debian is much smoother to operate.
It's because your Linux PC is doing what you want it to do, and your Win 11 PC is doing what your employer + Microsoft wants it to do.
Yup. My work PC feels sluggish most days. And it's because they are remotely recording my entire screen. And I plugged in my ultrawide lmao.
I like to think when your employer told you they would record your screen you went out and bought the highest resolution screen money can buy.
I get all the AV, remote management etc tooling but damn just plain screen recording 24/7 is some crazy dystopian shit.
I hope someone shits your employers mailbox
Look, underclocking (so next upgrade is just over clocking) the users PCs and stealing a little RAM for the Admin PC discreetly is the only way to get their new
gaming rigtest server and other work environment tools approved by finance