Windows 11 Is The Worst Windows Ever Period.

[UCyborg]

Do they have problems beyond "OMG Windows uses half-RAM!"? I mean, is another application being starved? Seems people with most RAM complain the most.

Regarding testing in VMs, I personally only encountered bugs that have nothing to do with specific hardware and drivers, so easily detectable in VM.

Edited December 8 by UCyborg

[vinifera]

2 hours ago, UCyborg said:

Seems people with most RAM complain the most.

as right as they should...
if freakin OS dumps so much into the memory, i'd start asking what the hell does it dump ?

[UCyborg]

Apparently you can run Windows 11 on certain Android smartphones.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1h9bblk/i_managed_to_run_windows_11_on_a_phone/

https://renegade-project.tech/en/home

I noticed the guy on Reddit called his phone "old". Then I looked it up and it's from 2021.

[sunryze]

21 hours ago, vinifera said:

as right as they should...
if freakin OS dumps so much into the memory, i'd start asking what the hell does it dump ?

macOS, Linux, and Windows all typically will just cache random files, programs, etc. that it predicts could be used at some point. It's just to make things feel a bit faster so they don't have to always access the disk.

with Windows its superfetch, essentially just preloads apps in memory so they don't have to 100% open from disk when you open them

of course, it shouldn't use all your memory so programs have some room for memory they need to allocate later

[UCyborg]

We didn't see the post with details. Standby memory is available for use by applications, you won't see it on the used side on your regular memory usage counter. Windows will throw loaded files out when memory is needed. It also tends to keep files loaded by the program you just closed loaded.

Though I'm not sure how I feel about preloading many gigabytes of data in advanced, especially on computers with faster storage. Even for bigger files, you may not need all portions at once. But in case you do...well it's all guesswork and I suppose any requested chunk is immediately available in the case of file being already fully loaded.

Doesn't Linux require loading something extra if you want Superfetch-like behavior?

[vinifera]

18 hours ago, sunryze said:

macOS, Linux, and Windows all typically will just cache random files, programs, etc. that it predicts could be used at some point. It's just to make things feel a bit faster so they don't have to always access the disk.

with Windows its superfetch, essentially just preloads apps in memory so they don't have to 100% open from disk when you open them

of course, it shouldn't use all your memory so programs have some room for memory they need to allocate later

i know all this... duh
hence why i wrote what i wrote...

[mshultz]

On 3/12/2024 at 6:42 AM, Klemper said:

"Windows 11 Accidentally Offered to Unsupported Computers ...The software giant says it was all a mistake"

https://news.softpedia.com/news/windows-11-accidentally-offered-to-unsupported-computers-537079.shtml

 

Why doesn't Windows 11 support Intel 6 & 7 generation CPUs?  Asus motherboards from the 100 series on up have TPM 2.0 support (with updated Bios), as does my Dell laptop with 6 gen Skylake CPU (It's called PTT in the Bios).  I can understand Microsoft's insistence on TPM 2.0 support, but to require Intel 8 gen or newer CPU is nothing more than planned obsolescence.  Also, those of us in Real America (and probably other parts of the world) cannot depend on 24/7 internet access,  so we need to be able to logon to a local account, and have Microsoft Office that does not depend on the cloud, so that we can still get work done (I use Office 2010, so not a problem).