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Sounds like your organizations Windows 11 image is bloated and or your adnin didn't set much in the way of group policy. It could also be one of those shit corporate security products eating up resources.

Talk to your admins to see if you can speed it up. One of my work machines has a 8th gen Intel i5 with 48gb of ram and it is quick and snappy. I got permission to strip out Onedrive and some other junk which helped a lot. I also disabled all of the startup apps.

Current versions of Windows really feel like they're chugging under the hood. I got a GPD Win Max 2 last year, with 64GB RAM, an eight-core Ryzen and an RTX-capable GPU, it's a beast of a machine.

The start menu still takes a second to open. The explorer menu is loading in after the window has opened. Doing a right-click to open context menus also takes longer than it should take (and it's noticeably quicker when you bring the old context menus back). Every time you do an action in Windows 11 it feels like an old geezer gets up from his wheelchair, fights a cough attack and almost collapses while trying to go to the bathroom.

I once read that the new start menu and those fancy explorer ribbons and context menus are written in React, so I guess the rendering engine is just a massive bloated browser nowadays that puts your system under way more load than it needs to.

Compared to that, Fedora 42 is blazingly fast on this machine. With a Samsung SSD the whole thing was installed in five minutes and KDE Plasma is just so snappy - everything opens instantly and it never feels like my machine needs to think for a second before displaying something. Now that we've also reached higher FPS in games with Proton in some scenarious, there is no good reason for me to even use Windows anymore.

Yeah its pretty bad. I have two dell latitudes, one from about 2015 and one newish one. Opensuse on the old one, Win11 on the new one, guess which one isn't all laggy

That's because ripping into your disk for every click and key press, oh and the constant recording, is very taxing :)

I always preferred the AMD branch pipeline over Intel. Sadly I haven't used an AM since that FX era, but I used that until about 5 years ago and still preferred it to that day's Intels.

The old 1-2 punch. Cyberark left, Trellix right cross.

Your work machine is running 18 copies of McAfee or whatever. Of course it's going to be slower.

And the i7 is.... What.... I7 in laptops don't mean a lot as many are low speed CPUs and some are high where as on desktop they are almost always high-end.

Windows being slower as it is, your work machine likely also has a ton of endpoint security and monitoring tools installed that are constantly running.

Computers became fast enough about 20 years ago for everything short of gaming for the average user.

Before that, lots of effort was put into efficiency, specifically in the OS.

Now days, hardware is so fast, and storage has become so large, the only way to force people to buy new hardware is to create total bloatware and planed obsolescence.

I'm forced to use windows for work, and have been on 11 for a while now. Many basic tasks are indeed much slower.

I finally have my own home PC for the first time in decades, and this is one of the many reasons I plan on switching it to linux.

I want all that horse power going into graphics and gaming, not running a shit OS.

Yes, Windows sucks. What's your question?

It's because your Linux PC is doing what you want it to do, and your Win 11 PC is doing what your employer + Microsoft wants it to do.