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rant

Got a new work laptop: 13th Gen Intel Core i7 with 10 cores, 32 GB RAM, SSD.

Also, Windows 11 Enterprise.

That machine is incredibly slow — to boot, to open apps, to do anything really.

Over the last 30 years we’ve progressed CPU clock rate, RAM latency, and SSD performance to insane levels. We all have computers that are multiple times more performant than a Cray of yore.

And yet the awful pile of steaming bloatware that is Windows and friends renders even modern mid-range machines aggravating to use, and not better than the user experience from the past three decades.

It feels like the headroom provided by leaps in hardware is being completely canceled by a lazy lack of optimization of the tech-debt-ridden software stack

/rant

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, ETH maxi, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

You bought such a rocket & install MS Windows on it? Why?! Why not Linux?

It’s a work laptop provided by the company, I don’t have any say in it

Also my main tools are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Not exactly Linux-friendly even if I prefer the penguin

My previous outfit was a Google partner and thus we had all switched to the G Suite, but this one is a Microsoft partner so no dice. I’m locked into OneDrive and O365

I see. Open Office isn't good at all. But using Google Docs worked for me, tho I see using cloud software may not be the option from the corporate data privacy POV.