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

ive heard of a windows flavor that is completely debloated, but it's unofficial 3rd party.

but what's the point? linux or os x will do the job.

Animations
https://linktr.ee/miguelgarest

compared to 20 years ago, there is barely a platform advantage. if the AAA can't be ported to steam on linux, I'm already questioning the bloat at the app layer, let alone the OS.

but that is a solid point about work computers. no way to mod it 🤷‍♂️

Can you seamlessly do gaming on Linux /OS X?

I know the US government procures one such edition with absolutely no bloat nor telemetry.

Otherwise there are scripts out there that remove a lot of clutter, but obviously not permissible on a corp machine