If readers recall, earlier this year in mid-March, Microsoft stopped automatically installing its Microsoft 365 Copilot App on Windows 11 by default. Instead, the company decided to leave this option to users, which makes sense considering it is their operating system. However, Microsoft is now reve...
This is me. I got a new work laptop last November with a good spec and loads of ram, because I’m a “power user” … and it absolutely drags on every little thing.
Windows Explorer falls over sometimes. Click on the start menu and wait for it to catch up. Lots if waiting for updates to complete. Don’t get me started on actually running MS programs on it.
And this is the Enterprise version with the worst shit already switched off.
Meanwhile, at home I have a 12 year old Thinkpad that was decidedly mid-spec when new, with completely stock Linux Mint, which flies along (the only change from stock being an SSD, and lots of stickers). I don’t even need to switch to a lighter window manager :-)
I’m an engineer and all my coworkers got laptop “upgrades” at work. They’ve all had similar experiences. Rverything is just slower on them.
For some reason I wasn’t included in the same round of upgrades, and I’m happy for it.
Indeed. I really didn’t like Windows 10, but this is ridiculous :-(