Comment by mrgaro
7 hours ago
I was just helping my dad with a brand new Lenovo laptop with Windows 11. It felt unbelievable slow and sluggish. Just opening file manager to create a new folder lagged so much it felt like this would have been a 15 years old computer.
> Just opening file manager to create a new folder lagged so much it felt like this would have been a 15 years old computer.
I use a 15 year old computer and I assure you creating a folder has no lag at all.
While I personally use Ubuntu on my laptop for several years now, when I helped my relative with a brand new laptop (huawei) with Windows 11 I was suprised how fast it was despite being very cheap, I don't remember any version of Windows that had such a performance, at least visually. Out of curiosity, what model does your father have?
To me it's generally pretty quick outside of File Explorer. The reskinned File Explorer is an absolute car crash - it's like they've taken everything that made 2005 KDE awkward and bolted it on top of Windows.
It's a Lenovo Yoga 9i with an Intel EVO i5 CPU. Not sure how much memory it has.