It's funny how this is faster and more responsive than my actual windows desktop window manager experience (speed of opening apps etc).
I can't imagine that big a difference is due to hardware differences. The M2 is fast, but Intel 12th gen isn't much slower just more power hungry.
That means it's a software issue. Which is sad considering how good the NT lineage of kernels was, they have been making a worse and worse OS around it. They have themselves to blame for dropping from nearly 100% desktop marketshare to around 60% now. Only time until they're going the AOL or Yahoo way...