Explorer seems to be crashing a lot since the last update on my pc
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.
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?
What about showing the result that exactly matches the search query instead of a bunch of similar items?
Interestingly, macOS’ Spotlight search can do this exact same thing, without any major performance hits…
Spotlight is awesome and I love it (Mac user here).
When I had Windows, I did try Everything (which is basically Spotlight for Windows) and I didn’t get it. Now I do. I regret not using that program more. Way back in the day, in Windows 95, I used to have “short codes” set up for nearly every application on my computer, and I think it was .bat shortcuts that launched them. So Win+R, the short code, the app launches. I don’t think autocomplete was a thing then (otherwise it would have been unnecessary). I had the short codes taped to the side of the tower, printed, but with a bunch of hand-written ones added after. So I’ve really been doing this for about 30 years off and on.
Going by title alone, and not knowing the situation:
If it’s a problem indeed, two wrongs don’t make a right.
Hmm, has Microslop considered that people don’t love this when Apple does it and are thus running Windows instead? Food for thought…
Hahaha windows is such a mess
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.
Pinning the CPU clock uses more power, and generates more heat. If it were “sensible” to do so, then the CPUs for consumer devices wouldn’t have variable clock speeds to begin with.
Since people do care about devices getting hot in their hands, and draining batteries, this is a stupid and lazy fix for a problem of their own making and they’re expecting users to put up with the problems it causes in exchange for Microsoft being able to treat their operating system the same way social media companies treat their feeds
Pinning the CPU clock can have certain uses.
There is always an xkcd.
Keyboards used to do this. The effect was that mashing on the keyboard slowed the computer
