Comment by Springtime
11 hours ago
And this W11 version of Notepad takes longer to open than Sublime Text and about equal to Firefox. On NVMe.
It used to be instant, which is something you really notice the difference with when it changes.
11 hours ago
And this W11 version of Notepad takes longer to open than Sublime Text and about equal to Firefox. On NVMe.
It used to be instant, which is something you really notice the difference with when it changes.
The fucking start menu used to be an actual windows component that opened instantaneously. It's a web app now, sometimes taking seconds to open.
I also noticed a lot of the time windows just ignores me double clicking on things in file explorer, leaving me to sit there wondering if I have to do it again.
Now that we're ranting, I wonder what's up with the right-click context menu in Windows 11 on my machines. It literally takes a noticeable fraction of a second (in the order of several hundred ms) for the menu with fewer than ten items to appear. (The first time might take around a second, I'd suppose due to disk I/O. But subsequent clicks also have a noticeable delay.)
All the computers with Windows 11 that are available to me are fairly similar so I don't know if it's just these particular software/hardware setups. But it seems absurd that a device capable of billions of operations per second even on a single core somehow takes hundreds of milliseconds to display a few menu items.
On my 5 year old work laptop it was so bad it was nearly unusable. I found that disabling the shell extensions they used to implement the new file explorer UI helped a lot with that.
They made the damned system volume regulator open with a visible delay now. You can click on it and observe it at 0 level, and then after some seconds it jumps to the actual position. After they threw out Win10 taskbar and replaced it with this rejected tablet atrocity in Win11, everything got much slower on it.
The only reason I use Notepad is that it opens instantly. A fancy think with loads of features that's slow to open should be a new product.
Notepad--
This made me spit out my coffee, thanks.
That was WordPad, right? Except it also loaded instantly, probably.
Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe
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Opens instantly on my machine. It takes the same amount of time as neovim.
Now if you want to complain about something then vscode takes 12 seconds to load
Wait till you open the humble calculator.
It's an amazing technical feat how they managed to introduce a graphical delay to it in Windows 10. I feel it actually took planning to work out how to introduce friction into easily the simplest conceivable app for no reason. It is a microcosm of everything that's wrong with Windows today.