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

100% - my work laptop is a dell with 7 cores, ssd, and 32g ram and it can’t do multi-tasking at all. Build a front end and back end at the same time? Forget it. Try to merge a git pull and do anything else? Forget it. Even trusting that the machine is compiling apps is not always reliable. MS should be fined for the amount of time people collectively spend pandering to their bloatware. Okay, I’m done, and I feel better. Serenity now.. 🙏🏻