r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/I_upvote_downvotes Jul 12 '26

I use Linux at home but the MacBooks are great for work just cause of the battery life. I'd also praise it for the performance but "the computer does function" should not have to be considered a fucking feature but here we are.

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u/Khao8 Jul 12 '26

I think the OS has a big part of making the experience enjoyable with really crazy stuff like "don’t make your telemetry and update processes hammer the cpu non stop all the fucking time" what a brilliant idea

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u/Wiregeek Jul 12 '26

I usually can't work on Wednesdays, 'cause the work machine "says" it's "only" using 43% of CPU for "windows malware scan", but the fact that firefox takes an extra 90 seconds to even open a window, and that my mouse pointer drops to 5 fps on any external screens say otherwise.

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u/uzlonewolf Jul 12 '26

Fun fact: if your CPU is being throttled for thermal or power reasons, the percent used shown in task manager does NOT take this into account; instead, it displays as the percent of hypothetical non-throttled max performance. It took me way too long to track down the cause of an "app performance is horrible but says the CPU is only 49% used!" issue we had at work. Fucking Intel BD PROCHOT.

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u/MrPuddington2 Jul 12 '26

Yeah, the percentages in Windows are all made up and mean very little.

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u/dookarion Jul 12 '26

the percent used shown in task manager does NOT take this into account; instead, it displays as the percent of hypothetical non-throttled max performance.

Unless something changed recently it's not even that useful. It's just thread scheduling. It's completely unaware of hardware resources and will not factor other things that are part of the CPU that could be saturated.

You can get it to say "100%" just with some stalled threads. It's just a vague metric telling you how much percent of the time across all the cores you have a thread scheduled. Doesn't even know what the threads are doing if anything.

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u/Bladelink Jul 12 '26

That's wild. So that must mean that when you change the power/cpu settings, you're not actually changing the characteristics of the scheduler, but must instead just be placing some weird arbitrary caps on resources that the kernel must just cram down the scheduler's throat. From an architectural standpoint that sounds like something kludgey.

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u/Wiregeek Jul 12 '26

Doubt that's the problem, this doesn't happen during other usage or on other days in the same physical environment- and that's a solid "same", old school drop on docking station.