I see so many people claiming that windows is crap and that’s why they moved to Linux.
That got me thinking: I can no longer have an opinion in the matter. I haven’t used Windows at home since 2004. I used it at work until the beginning of 2019 but someone else maintained it, since then, I haven’t had the need to touch windows.
Whether good or bad, I feel I’m not as knowledgeable as I was.
Well, actually, two years ago I cleaned up and “revived” my dad’s desktop which was taking two minutes to boot and about the same time to open the first app. After installing an SSD and a couple of hours of clean-up, it was as fast as new. I guess with proper maintenance it can be good enough. However, isn’t it the main criticism about Linux? That you “need to know” to use it?
People complain about Linux drivers, but as far as I remember, it was quite common that new versions of Windows dropped old drivers and your perfectly good printer/scanner/video card/etc. became a paperweight. Is that still the case?
Windows 11 has CPU spikes when you search for an app because search-bar runs chrome in the back to render its graphics.
It’s objectively bad as in they did not care about users when programming.
Would it not be Edge, MIcrosoft’s own browser? You have their Bing search results too…
It’s in react/electron which is chromium. It does use bing for search engine tho.
The Start menu is C++/XAML, but the “recommended” section uses React Native for Windows. That still means a performance hit, but it’s got nothing to do with Electron.
I did not know that, interesting. Modern Edge is based on Chromium too, so there’s two I guess.
Edge, opera, brave, they’re all chromium based.
The only independent browsers still stand ing are Safari and Firefox (and its forks).