Windows 11 24H2 no longer runs on processors without SSE4.2
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I've tried Windows 10/11 on a Pentium M and Core Duo and Core 2 Duo. It's abysmal performance-wise and honestly in every other way too.
Seriously, stop defendng crappy software. Windows 10 feature wise is not that different to a Windows 2000 machine with MS Office 2003. If should run screamly fast under a Core Duo, yet it throws out a perfectly fine machine to the trash.
The Dual Core machine from my SO it's far faster than my first AMD Athon with 256MB, a machine I could run Kopete and KDE3 on it doing far more than a base W10 machine minus the resolution: 1024x768 vs 1280x720. Not so different in the end.
If people want to hang onto their K6, they're free to use whatever Linux distro still bothers supporting it, because even that is becoming more difficult nowadays.
There's no reason to use this stuff. It's crap. If you're satisfied with crap, that's more your problem than Microsoft's or anybody else's. I know I'd never subject anybody I love to that kind of PC hardware.
But yeah, shoot the messenger. What a fucking waste.
It's not reality, but you, high end users, are pretty spoiled.
With UBo, your statement about requiring 1-2GB of RAM to view a web page it's pretty much bullshit unless it's something like Google Earth 3D or similar. Because even Youtube gets cuts down on CPU and RAM usage with that and the parameter array from the file at git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters copied to /etc/profiled/chromium.sh. Windows users can just paste the "--arguments --foo --bar..." list to the Chromium/Chrome desktop shortcut's EXE path settings after the EXE path.
Well that's one perspective, another might be maintaining sales of operating systems, hardware, and the economic ecosystem that it's a part of.
> Well that's one perspective, another might be maintaining sales of operating systems, hardware, and the economic ecosystem that it's a part of.
Are you serious? Sandy Bridge launched 2011. It's dirt cheap. It's performant. Just get one of the billions of used Thinkpads on Ebay or anywhere else. Nobody is being forced to buy the current generation. This is significantly better than the previous hardware block which was actually insane because it locked off everything older than a 7th gen Intel Core for no apparent reason. And it's actually sensible, because it's actually feature-based instead of completely arbitrary.
Windows 11 on Intel is about the worst performance/power that I've known. I use Windows 10 on a Surface Go which is usable for light work after I disable lots of extraneous Windows services. Efficiency should be a default.
I also don't run Electron 'PoS's either (except Slack on my work laptop) so don't see how that's relevant.
We can choose different OS's like macOS on Apple Silicon or Linux on AMD.
False. The requirements were published well ahead of these, and the compiler configured accordingly. Run unsupported configurations suffer unsupported ISAs.
Historically the question was always one of which optimizations we would be able to 'compile in' (rather than detect and use if available) and it has been increasingly difficult to justify in recent years: a few ops in 4.1, one op in 4.2, but nothing dramatic and we still can't rely on F16C support yet.
These days, the move to exclude older processors seems more designed to avoid headaches from failing older hardware and performance complaints from systems that might technically qualify for your minimum spec but can't offer a satisfying user experience than it has to do with the software being able to take advantage of instruction set extensions.
I get rendering changes: taskbar buttons are squares without text now, it uses transparent effects, etc. Or the Start menu having different containers inside, though I'd still expect each UI container to behave speedily. What I don't understand is the delay clicking in the search field, or why right-clicking a taskbar button has a perceptible moment before the context menu appears. What have they changed? Is it built with one of their new UI .Net layers, or WinUI3? Is it a custom menu implementation that someone wrote without thinking they reinvented the wheel? What on earth is going on?
Also a fun one:
There are two cloud drive clients, one uses WinUI and is snappy using ~100MiB of RAM, another one is written with React Native and uses ~250MiB of RAM. Which one is written by Apple and which one by Microsoft?
After suffering through it long enough, I downgraded it back to 10 with a fresh install and it felt like a different device.
I feel a little bad for Microsoft. They clearly believe they have to find new things to add to their OS for the sake of adding things and justifying the upgrade. And this is likely just from teams that want to show impact (i.e. keep their jobs).
Win 10, for all it's faults, has served me well. I'd be happy to continue using it for a long time. But that doesn't make the stock price go up.
Classic case of a network call being slower than staying on the local computer (someone in Redmond should have known better)
If ReactOS implemented the security policies from Windows under it, evan a machine with a GB of RAM could run it pretty well, I'm sure.
If Trisquel Mini, akin to Lubuntu 22.04 but libre, runs under 2GB fast enough, I don't get what the hell would be W10 doing to crawl under an HD by just staying idle without anything being open.