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I'm constantly shocked how poorly Windows 11 runs on brand new high end hardware.
My current job has expensive enterprise class HP laptops, brand new, Nvme drives, the newest CPUs, 32GB RAM, blah blah.
Nearly every day, my corporate VPN app just shits the bed. The tray window that pops up to connect just goes black and never shows anything. I have to open task manager, end the process, wait 30 seconds for it to autostart to then authenticate.
My WSL instance constantly fails to start and I have to run a Powershell command to fix it. Programs won't maximize won't open when I try to switch to them until I do it 4-5 times.
Everything is slow and clunky even when I have almost nothing running.
Meanwhile my 8 year old low end Thinkpad with 8 GB of slow DDR4 RAM and a 2.5inch cheapo SSD runs fine with Linux Mint thrown on it and I frequently go 4-6 months between updates.