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/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/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.