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

Often slowness is the os and/apps phoning home. OneDrive also tries to keep a constant connection and could be uploading files to the cloud.

Complexity explorer. Residing in the liminal.

Are you able to run a decent network traffic monitor, or is the machine too locked down?
I find Sniffnet pretty handy to see what's going on.

Are you able to run a decent network traffic monitor, or is the machine too locked down?
I find Sniffnet pretty handy to see what's going on.
https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet/wiki

OneDrive is most definitely a factor in this.

And if I save a file to OneDrive (no other choice) from an app, it can take minutes to then reflect in Windows Explorer