He elaborated that older menus were essentially just unhiding a pre-rendered, fixed layout panel with zero DPI scaling changes and no network requests. Today, the Windows 11 Start menu is constantly pulling in recommended recent documents, cloud files, and web search results.

What about not doing any network request and looking up for search's that nobody asked for?

"All modern operating systems do this, including macOS and Linux. It’s not ‘cheating’; this is how modern systems make apps feel fast: they temporarily boost the CPU speed and prioritize interactive tasks to reduce latency"

Imagine making code so fucking bloated that things that were near instant in 2006 now require CPU boosts to "feel" instant. The video comparison in the article is just opening outlook. 14 seconds vs 4 seconds to get to the damned thing ready to use.

“There are actual things wrong and smart people are working to fix them, but a lot of this negativity is computer science enthusiasts without experience in computer science making assumptions based on their intuition.”

You don't need to be a computer scientist to figure that

even if the company does something positive, critics, with basic knowledge, come up with baseless explanations about how it’s something negative.

Author sure enjoys licking M$'s balls

Linux menus can feel lighter because they often do less work

Because, for the most part, they're not bloated messes.

and integrate fewer services

How many of those services are even desired in the first fucking place? Copilot can go to hell and take all the advertising and telemetry with it.

However, bandwagon criticism of an already established technology when a company you dislike adopts it is plain hypocrisy.

It's only hypocrisy if you defend others doing it.

He elaborated that older [Windows 95-XP-7] menus were essentially just unhiding a pre-rendered, fixed layout panel with zero DPI scaling changes and no network requests. Today, the Windows 11 Start menu is constantly pulling in recommended recent documents, cloud files, and web search results.

Even fucking win10 menu feels much faster than win11's under default settings, i've had 11's menu hang and completely fail to search for anything because it looks like it prioritizes web searches over fucking local. Using Open Shell solves a lot of the woes of having to deal with the slow, heavy shit M$ is forcing down its users' throats.

When users demanded that Microsoft remove all the bloat and optimize the apps first before implementing a CPU boost, Hanselman replied, “Or do both.”

Copilot is still everywhere. Telemetry is still there. Ads are still there. Xbox Game bar is still installed by default on fucking office/corporate computers. The bloat that people want to get rid of the most is staying, to the surprise of no one.

There are actual things wrong and smart people are working to fix them, but a lot of this negativity is computer science enthusiasts without experience in computer science making assumptions based on their intuition.

But windows 95 still managed to draw the start menu with a 386 and 10MB of RAM, so computer science aside, decisions have been made over a decade to make it shitty.

Hahaha windows is such a mess

Hmm, has Microslop considered that people don't love this when Apple does it and are thus running Windows instead? Food for thought...

it is a lazy trick. another one is 'fast startup' (which is essentially 'logout-then-hibernate') to make your pc appear to boot up faster.

That does seem like a dumb thing to be complaining about. Human UI interactions should be given pretty high priority, and pinning the CPU to max clock speed sounds like a sensible optimization.

I feel like there's some other issue here the author isn't touching on, maybe.

Explorer seems to be crashing a lot since the last update on my pc

Going by title alone, and not knowing the situation:

If it's a problem indeed, two wrongs don't make a right.

lol, You can't stop a trainwreck as it happens. They are truly beyond any chance of redemption.

Wait what?? I can't read this high school gossip article but that is basic ass behavior what is the problem now?