Desktop OS Slowness
Users discuss and complain about the sluggish performance and lag in desktop operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux, particularly UI responsiveness, app launching, and file operations even on high-end hardware.
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I am glad Iām not the only one who noticed Linux/Mac OS is slow
It's too sluggish on Windows
The speed of your windows program was much lower. More so if you needed to use the mouse.
You can open notepad, a terminal prompt, and paint on modern Windows and it will be sluggish.
Pretty much everything. Slow to load, slow to refresh, slow dialog boxes.Other stuff on my system is quite fast.
Are you using gnome?And a slow hard disk is often the bottleneck, in case of windows.
Yep, and it's so slow. On my new desktop rig (2017, $3,5k worth of hardware) it's ridiculously slow. Opening a exporer, wait 2 seconds. Open a network drive, it might open, if you're lucky. Even mundane things like opening Adobe software or Office takes noticeably longer than on my 2014 Macbook Pro. And it's not the hardware, geekbench is in expected territory, AIDA64 benches fine. It's just somehow, slow. Feels slow, at least. And then there's the visual inconsiste
The feature built into windows (even after recent update) is a lot slower
Hasn't it been artificially slow since Vista?
It definitely feels slower than previous versions. The fact that the Start menu almost always takes multiple seconds to open is absolutely inexcusable. To be fair, it's likely attributable to running a bunch of heavy apps (Visual Studio, Docker Desktop, multiple Chrome windows) on 8GB of RAM, but the task manager doesn't typically show memory as full, or any other obvious diagnostic. The primary hard drive is an SSD.I've been on Microsoft operating systems since Windows 3.1 and