Yeah, I've been exclusively on Linux at home since 2019. I have to do work on Windows though and it's a daily reminder that Windows is a piece of shit and gets worse with every update. WSL is the only thing that makes it bearable. It's like releasing a long relaxing breath when I can finally get on my home computer.
replyLuckily, one can still revert to the classic calculator: https://win7games.com/#calc
replyI use Windows exclusively for games, but I don't like playing the game of disabling upsells, dodging unkillable Edge, and restoring secret pre-AI versions of Windows components.
replyI don’t like it either, but as an easy solution it’s still the lesser evil for me. At least they do allow running 20-year old binaries.
replyThankfully, that has improved, but there's still a weird bug where multiple instances of the calculator will spawn for no reason at all.
replyThe calculator in Windows 11 still takes several seconds to load for me.
replyIt seems that some Windows computers are generally laggy with no good reason. I could recommend installing Old Calculator.
replyhttps://winaero.com/get-calculator-from-windows-8-and-window...
It was a little difficult setting it up so that the calculator key on the keyboard pulls it up but aside from that it works well.
Probably a cache thing. Win11 precaches a lot of stuff if you hover over it or have excess RAM. It's not as smart as SuperFetch and ReadyBoost (with an HDD) was but it's still doing similar things.
replyHow big is the calculator app on Windows 11 that you need to cache it in RAM? On macOS, the calculator app is 6 MB. And that's containing both x64 and ARM code. How long does it take a modern SSD (6 GB/s?) to read that?
replyIf it's the same as on Win10 it's a UWP App that needs a ton of dependencies like .net, WinUI2/XAML.
replyThe appx is: Approximate size 21.8 MB according to https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhvn5
Win7 calc.exe had 758KB for i686 and 897KB for amd64.
You shouldn't need to cache a calculator app to make it load quickly - it opened instantly on a machine running Windows 3.0 with 2MB RAM.
replyInstant for me but I have a beefy CPU Ryzen 9800X3D and some crazy nvme.
replyAnd most important: no corporate spyware disguised as anti-virus, in this machine.
I switched in 2023 or so, I have not seen one headline per your example or anecdote or comment or tea leaves that have made me question moving away from windows.
replyNot one, not once. Even my worst day on Linux where something does work for seemingly no reason, still better than Windows.