I have that behavior as well, but it’s not a Windows issue, it’s all the bloat software that IT installed on it. It’s wild how much it kills this laptop compared to any other PC, not just in login times.
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vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoin the time it takes my work windows laptop to get from a login screen to a usable desktop, with the cpu idle, I rebooted and signed in to my linux desktop, and performed a restart. Several times.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Take a windows computer and don’t have it managed by a company. Manage it yourself. It will slow down over time as the registry and other shit get gunked up over time. I run freebsd, Linux, windows, and mac here and I can tell you for sure after a length of time there’s no speeding up windows. You just need to reinstall it.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That hasn’t really been my experience. The computers I own have had windows for multiple years. I tend to install it when first setting up and never again.
The work laptop has good specs but trash performance from day one that I got it. I had a laptop that I gave away that was much lower spec than the work laptop and it ran better in every way, probably because it had none of the bloat.
Windows in my opinion has huge issues in other areas but performance hasn’t been one of them in the last 15 years for me, probably in part because I avoid running any heavy services in the background.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I guess we need to define performance. The OS operates slowly over time. Likely you’ll notice no difference playing your games or something.
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That doesn’t happen since Windows 98 days, lol.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No, it still happens. Unless you don’t do anything on your computer. If you boot it up and read a spreadsheet and shut it down and do this for 10 years, sure.
Aux@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, I don’t use a laptop, but my desktop boots into usable state in a few seconds. Not sure what your problem is, but it’s most likely between a keyboard and a chair.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How much ram does it have? 8gb? Genuinely curious. I have a work laptop with 8gb and one with 32…
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
both have 16 gb ram. Older desktop, newer laptop, so cpu performance is roughly equal. Both use an ssd
Veneroso@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My 32gb machine is still running windows 10 and I have been dreading having to switch. I figured that the 8gb was the reason why the other was sluggish now I’m not so sure. I haven’t upgraded my personal devices yet either. I hate that they keep trying to reinvent the wheel with the “metro” backend that they built with windows 8. I saw that even the devices and printers control panel was fully moved into the settings app… Thanks for the reply, I will probably try to hold out a little longer …
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My win11 laptop is practically instant to boot up
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ironically, it takes my work thinkpad 3x as long to come out of hibernation than to boot. Thanks corporate policy!