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@paytondev The more buttons you add the better the software

this is the most cluttered unreadable UI i've ever seen. not that Google is solely to blame...

@shanselman Sure but why do I need this to make the system tray or Start menu open faster? It was instant in Windows 7. Even in 8, where it was pulling in all sorts of data to show in tiles etc. The one in Windows 11 barely does anything extra.

Your smartphone already does this. Constantly. Every touch wakes cores, boosts clocks, renders a frame, then drops back to idle milliseconds later. You’ve discovered dynamic frequency scaling Welcome to modern computer science. Come on in! The water changes temperature often.

@WindowsLatest I didn’t need to turbo my CPU when opening menus or Start in Windows 95/XP/7. Excusing a turd of a product coded by people without any regard for performance or quality.

Microsoft VP fires back at Windows 11's new speed trick critics: "Apple does this and you love it." Windows 11’s hidden Low Latency Profile is getting dragged online, but the criticism misses the point. Windows Latest has tested the Low Latency Profile, and it truly works. When you open the Start menu, a menu, or an app, Windows briefly boosts the CPU for 1–3 seconds so the task finishes faster. On budget PCs, that can make the whole OS feel much snappier. Some users called it a “band-aid,” but Microsoft's Scott Hanselman pushed back and explained that macOS and Linux already do similar things. Modern systems boost CPU speed for interactive tasks because responsiveness matters. "Let Windows cook," Microsoft's legendary dev Scott Hanselman argues in defense of Windows 11's upcoming feature. Of course, Windows 11 needs to be optimized at the code level, but the answer is not “don’t boost the CPU.” Microsoft needs to do the best of both worlds. That means it needs to optimize the code, reduce bloat, and use modern scheduling tricks to make Windows feel fast again.

@bruvimtired Screen Sharing app that's built in, use High Performance, enable dynamic resolution. $0

wtf Apple?! why is it £79??!?!?

@BasicAppleGuy You got EarPods for free. 2026 Apple would never

Who remembers when Apple briefly sold a cheaper version of the iPod touch in 2013 with no rear camera, less storage, and a worse FaceTime camera to cut costs?

@_trish_xD Even for desktop software like dude I just want to distribute a self contained exe that isn’t 400MB to display a window

we went from "just copy the .exe file" to "first install docker, kubernetes, helm charts, and sacrifice a goat to deploy hello world" honestly embarrassing how deploying software somehow turned into a ritual remember when you could just... run things?

@peach2k2 They should be tried for crimes against HCI

do gnome devs really deserve basic human rights

@schteppe billion years

C++ will be a dead language in 10

@FFmpeg Looking forward to the next version in 2076, you should be able to get it working with 720p videos by then.

FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀 Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety. FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety. All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.

@housecor Yikes. Good thing they’ve solved them consuming merge conflicts by making sure they spend that time fixing main instead.

Just learned a team at Microsoft is doing code reviews *after* merge. Why? To move faster. No more pausing work to wait for code reviews. No need for stacked PRs. No more time-consuming merge conflicts caused by long code review delays. This has risks, but may work well for a team that is: - mature - high trust - has strong automated quality checks

@_zilants @TheLobbyistGuy How can someone improve Windows if they don’t have any experience with it? It’s baffling. They should hire people who’ve used Windows for a long time.

@TheLobbyistGuy Pretty sure they mean she was using apple computers this whole time but they dont wanna say that Microsoft calls windows PC all the time especially in adverts It doesnt mean personal computers to them it refers to the windows platform

Microsoft hired a woman who had literally never used a PC in her life, whose design experience was in children's books, to design the Windows 11 operating system. No wonder it sucks so badly.

@saveusculture @Jonathan_Blow How am I going to get real time updates from my coworkers on this document if it doesn’t use 20GB of RAM and 800 websocket connections?

From startup to shutdown, loading Windows 3.1, MS Word, and MS Excel, on a computer several orders of magnitude slower and with 1000x less RAM than a modern PC. Note how snappy everything is. iT's dOinG mOre No it isn't. We don't have to live like this!

@adxtyahq Great, 90% of users will never use any of these.

open chrome + vs code + docker Its done

never buy a 16GB RAM laptop in 2026. you’ll regret it within a week

@josesaezmerino Because if I get too many tabs I get lost in them and can’t even figure out which one is which. Vertical tabs help with hierarchy and longer titles. But I prefer compact vertical tabs + expand on mouse hover. Not sure if Chrome has that. Arc did IIRC.

I don't understand vertical tabs. Why would I want less space for the website content I actually want to look at?

@299792458MaxHH @tdkumon Sux that you don't have AirDrop, meanwhile on the Apple side it takes 2 seconds to send that screenshot from a laptop to a phone 😌

@tdkumon The thing with the screenshot is that it's _still_ easier to send a file across the Atlantic than from a laptop to a phone

Edge McAfee Security and other ad bookmarks Some amazon and youtube thingy and mysterious question mark in the task bar bing copilot "youtube playlist downloader" takes a pic with their phone instead of a screenshot is this really how the average person uses their computer

@DefGrady We know how to do it, it's just that nobody in corporate cares about polish, performance, or actual skill anymore. It's all AI and enshittification.

My father-in-law is a programmer. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at Mac OS X Snow Leopard together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

@ThePrimeagen Shouldn't matter if there is abundance, but I don't trust Elon to be the one to give us such abundance.

high universal income just means universal income which means low income

@LabelleJb @zacbowden I have Windows on ARM on my Parallels Desktop, and used ARM tablets with it before. Also windowslatest.com/2025/11/12/met…

@dragossh @zacbowden No, WhatsApp dos NOT take 1 Go. If you never used Windows on ARM, why comment?

A Windows laptop that actually genuinely is a better deal than the $599 MacBook Neo. Better display, more powerful SoC, more RAM/storage, more ports, premium build. All round incredible laptop for $499.

@stevesi @sampavlovic Probably the only Windows version to do so! It's been years since I've used Windows on a tablet but on 10 & 11 it took like 2-3 seconds to rotate the screen with a terrible animation. A decade after iPad & Windows 8...

@sampavlovic 🙏 It was the first Windows device to rotate the screen smoothly when you switched orientation.

Windows 8 RTM (default setup) on a 1GB ATOM (netbook) system. (versus Windows 7 on same PC)