Windows 11

[atom0s]

Based on all the videos I've seen on Windows 11 from the various major tech YouTuber channels; Windows 11 so far has proven to be slower than Windows 10. Completely the opposite of what Microsoft has been trying to boost about it. Couple that with the new Intel CPU launch that was partnered with Microsoft to have a better schedular based around their new E-Core/P-Core setup, reviews also showed the CPUs still performed better on Windows 10.

Windows 11 so far to me is just a reskin of Win10 with new means of locking the OS down for more telemetry data. They have changed almost all the basic/simple apps from simple Win32 exe's into bloated UWP apps or similar. (ie. Notepad is like 70mb now instead of being 200-300kb.)

I haven't personally installed it to try it out since I have no interest in Windows 10 or 11. I have 10 installed for work related stuff, and I have it heavily modified/locked down so it has no means of updating or sending anything out unless I say so etc. Personally wont be touching 11 ever unless Microsoft rolls back some of their anti-consumer nonsense they are doing with it so far. (Update settings being blocked, the dumb as fuck task bar / right-click menu changes, the nonsense with default apps like Edge browser, etc.)

With gaming on Linux getting closer to being a mainstream thing, they are going to seriously need to stop being idiots towards their userbase or more people will just make the move to Linux in the future.

[Kerlingen]

A small update: I switched to Windows 11 over the holidays and I have been using it for 3 weeks now. While there are many annoyances with the user interface or the absence of settings you were allowed to change before, most of the performance parts were just that it "feels" slower.

But now I can report one massive verifiable performance hit:

• I regularly have to record screen-casts. I always first record them using my GPU in 4K resolution and in "h264" format (only 1-2% CPU load). After that I use FFMPEG and my CPU to scale them down to Full-HD and encode them into the "x265" format.
• On Windows 10 FFMPEG is able to do the CPU-only encoding with a speed of "4.35x", which means it takes around 21 minutes to encode the 90 minute source video to "x265".
• On Windows 10 my total CPU load is at 50% (50% of the cores at 100% load, FFMPEG doesn't use SMT cores for optimal cache usage)
• On Windows 11 the same procedure only gets to speed "1.69x" which means it takes around 53 minutes to encode the same 90 minute source video.
• On Windows 11 my total CPU load just gets to 20% (50% of the cores are used, but all of them are just at 35-50% load)

Wasn't Windows 11 supposed to have an improved scheduler? I think I will switch back to Windows 10 the next time I have a few free days.