• Moonguide@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I’m not as techy as people around lemmy. Some time has gone by since W11 got released, what do you think of it?

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      10 months ago

      I just dipped my toe in the last few days or so. It’s missing some QoL that existed in previous versions.

      I run 3 monitors. My center one is my primary display with the other 2 just being extra real estate. I wanted my taskbar to be on the left monitor and out of the way. On W10, you’d unlock the taskbar, drag it to the monitor you wanted it, then lock it up again.

      W11 will either let you have it on all of your monitors or only your primary monitor. I don’t want all my stuff opening on a secondary monitor by default.

      I know it’s petty, but it’s frustrating to have an easy feature stripped

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      10 months ago

      From taskbar settings, they removed “Never” combine taskbar buttons, and forced it to always combine taskbar buttons.

      Like if you prefer having 3 open folders showing as 3 buttons, too bad, you can’t do that in W11 without a third party patcher.

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        10 months ago

        Also, please, don’t fall for the Reddit (and now Lemmy) bizarre habit of showing a screenshot of Windows using 4 GBs of RAM and claiming “iT’s AlL tHe bLoaT” because that’s not how Windows’ RAM allocation has worked for the past two decades.

        RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

        You can think that it’s normal to do a bunch of things that threaten the system stability to get an OS that barely pretends it’s not spying on you anymore. I do not think it’s. I don’t think it’s normal to have to disable advertising on a paid system, but to each their own “¯_(ツ)_/¯”.

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          10 months ago

          Windows has been doing prefetching and caching all the way from 7 but even more so since 10. Also since 10 it does memory compression too.

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          10 months ago

          RAM usage is RAM usage, and besides the allocation still being awful and you probably having less RAM available in a heavy task, this means substantial power consumption, that costs money.

          Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

          Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

          Of my 32 GB at least 26 GB are constantly in use.

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            26 days ago

            Even if it’s just the OS keeping apps on memory for faster launches. If you do need heavy RAM for a task your OS is clever enough to reshuffle things.

            The problem is that when it is relocated, processor consumption increases. And as matter of fact, my operating system doesn’t cache anything and still opens applications very quickly, even faster than Windows.

            Used RAM does use more electricity but that is so neglible it’s a non-issue and no argument.

            Maybe isn’t a issue to you but for anyone with a laptop it is and it’s pretty visible.

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              10 months ago

              What processor are you using, a 486? Memory management should be effectively instant on any modern platform.

              I also find it extremely hard to believe that your unspecified OS doesn’t do any caching. Even vxworks does caching.

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        10 months ago

        That’s what I was most worried about, i’d heard that it hogged resources. Thanks for the info! I’ll look up if the softwares I use for work are natively compatible.