Comment by nolongerthere
2 years ago
This needs a 2013 tag, but its even more true today than it was back then, W11 feels like the absolute pinnacle of unoptimized code that is more interested in shiny new untested features vs giving us better performance.
I think we are talking about the kernel, not about the OS at large.
Not much changed. The problems are pervasive and workarounds rule the day. MS has got more accepting of them though.
For example they can't make NTFS fast, and they can't seem to make ReFS (their post-NTFS effort) backwards compatible, so now they're shipping it as "Dev Drive". A Dev Drive is the same thing as a normal drive, but not as slow, because they concluded that only developers care about filesystem performance:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
But the userspace also has a lot of weird performance problems, many introduced by their sandboxing efforts. For example their FS broker was extremely slow for a long time, maybe still is.