[signal11]

I recently got myself a Lenovo P-series Thinkpad to test something. My main machine's an MBP, so I was prepared for some pain, but honestly even an old Windows 10 box feels less laggy than the Thinkpad's fully-patched 25H2. Using PopOS on an old Thinkpad easily beats this experience. (And omg the power draw on the P-series!)

I also concur with the "Updates for days" sub-head in the article. That's exactly what it felt like.

I'd love to see some competition in the commercial personal OS space. Windows 11 25H2 isn't a serious contender, I'd love to see what their recent efforts to refocus on native apps will bring.

I'm going to apply the Costco Test: grab a Windows 11 Surface Laptop at Costco and press Win+E to open Explorer. If it takes ages to paint, you've failed the test. Ditto for other bundled apps, including Edge.

[fuzzfactor]

>an old Windows 10 box feels less laggy than the Thinkpad's fully-patched 25H2

"This is by design" is the excuse so often seen over the decades from Microsoft when the most useful aspect of a feature is just not quite capable of doing the main thing people would really want it to do in the first place. When they want people to quit trying to do what the hardware is obviously capable of. So they don't get more frustrated for "no reason". Lots of times when they put excess effort to curtail brilliant engineering so it could not participate in a launch. The kind of time when you're going to expect excuses.

Surely this is a point when you can logically extrapolate and say "this is by design . . . misguided design."

Oh, well.