Microsoft likes to pat itself on the again on occasion, however let’s be trustworthy, there’s nothing incorrect with it. They are saying “love yourselves,” and Microsoft does simply that, similar to another firm on the market. Final month, Microsoft went on to elucidate the way it relied by itself “design intuition” slightly than “person suggestions alone” to make the fashionable Home windows as “particular” as it’s.

And extra not too long ago, a senior engineer talked about how even smaller components on the Home windows OS, just like the clipboard, are designed to be high-performance. This put up, coincidentally, was made only a few days after we reported on the person dissatisfaction concerning the efficiency of Home windows 11 regardless of Microsoft really boosting the efficiency.

Many customers nonetheless really feel Home windows 11’s efficiency optimization leaves lots to be desired. Even when the efficiency variations might not replicate in benchmarks, individuals usually declare they really feel the brand new OS is sluggish.

A current put up on the r/Home windows subreddit piqued my curiosity. The thread was concerning the quickest Home windows OS on an older spinning drive like a tough disk drive (HDD), and maybe a bit surprisingly, Home windows 8.1 was overwhelmingly upvoted by most customers because the final fashionable Home windows OS that was nonetheless fast on a system nonetheless sporting an HDD.

The dialogue was began by a person named PJs_Asphalt, they usually questioned if there was something higher than Home windows 8.1 for his or her 2008 Lenovo ThinkPad laptop computer that sports activities a Core 2 Duo (twin core), 8 GB RAM, and a Toshiba HDD. On the time of writing, the put up has been upvoted by over 400 individuals, with most saying both Home windows 8 or 8.1 continues to be the very best factor for older, weaker methods.

It’s actually true that Home windows 10 and particularly Home windows 11 are fairly heavy on the I/O facet, and there was even a rumor that Microsoft would make SSDs the minimal storage requirement for Home windows 11.

This actually turns into fairly related on condition that Microsoft is continually reminding customers concerning the finish of help for Home windows 10 that’s quick approaching, and thus, many methods just like the one above will not be formally supported on Home windows 11. So they may both keep on with Home windows 8/8.1 or 10 and be in danger, or transfer to Linux. In case you’re trying to do the latter, a Linux-backed challenge referred to as “Endof10” might assist.