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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Yeah no, the experience really is ass.
    We use Lenovo IdeaPads at work, a model with an i7 and a Nvidia GPU, and Windows constantly chugs and has weird UI issues, even though the machines are not running heavy software and are on a pretty fresh install.

    • Sometimes when I wake the laptop from sleep, it sits and the lock screen showing my wallpaper and NOTHING else.
      Clicking, typing does nothing, I just have to sit there and wait like 2 minutes until it finally decides to show the input field and let me login again.

    • The Network/Sound/Battery tray flyout frequently stops responding. Only goes back to normal after restarting explorer.exe

    • The internal display has scaling while the external doesn’t. So every time you drag a window across it “snags” in between them while the application flickers and struggles to switch the scaling.

    • Switching between virtual desktops is so sloooow, if you use a different wallpaper on each you can literally see Windows struggling to swap the wallpapers in time.
      It’s impressive how a native OS feature feels like a third-party kludge.

    Great work Microsoft.