Benchmarks PROVE Windows 11 is a DISASTER!

Hardware Unboxed are not really a viable source for testing sometimes, but yes, Windows 11 is a dumpster fire.

Recently I started to use Linux mint. I am sick of the constant patches that fixes one thing but borked the others. And the fact that they kept screwing over AMD and in bed with vile Intel.

Windows is shite. It's why their console doesn't perform as well as it should.

Press shutdown, wait 15s to close.
Enter shutdown now in Linux, shuts down within 5s.

No weird updates, minimal (or no) telemetry. An army of volunteers working on an OS… I can change anything I want on a Linux machine…

Basically when I run windows, it feels like I'm borrowing my desktop. When I run Linux, it feels like the desktop is mine… Shame it's such a great Gaming OS (for now).

If you can build a PC, you can figure out Linux gaming, and if you only need a web browser, theres nothing to figure out. If you are sick of Windows, stop forcing yourself to use it!

As a windows user, I already know how to configure it for the best performance. It does require customizations, which most users won’t even bother with. With that said, I love windows 11.

Linux already is a better option, but it hasn't replaced Windoze because (a) people are too lazy to be bothered with learning something new, even if it is better, and (b) there are software titles people like using (or have no acceptable option and have to use) that do not function correctly, or not at all, on Linux. If the Redmond Reprobates were smart, which they are not, they would start selling things like Micro$oft Office and PowerBI for Linux the same as they already do for Crapintosh.

Windows on ARM has always been POC since WinCE times. WinCE looked like Windows but was incompatible with standard Windows Win32 API, because it was essentially just a windows look alike. How good MS is with adaption to differernt hardware you can see that hey "invented" a HAL – Hardware Abstraction layer – for Window NT 5 (Windows 2000) but it never came to fruition, W2k had less hardware architecture than NT4, NT4 had less hardware architecture support than NT3.51 …

Windows 10 IoT, which is essentially Win 10 for ARM came first to Qualcomm, and what did Qualcomm and MS do as a deal? Qualcomm SOC implemented hardware accelerated virtualisation, SVM & IOMMU to use AMD PC terms. Becasue be it WinCE or WinRT MS never could make their software work on other platforms.
Crosscompiling of application is effecticely non-existing and MS tools are just POG, that goes so far that for Win10 IOT they use Linux to compile their bootloaders, that's why Windows got WSL, not becaise MS got "open source friendly", if they were FOSS friendly Windows would support ext4 filesystem.
Well back to their Appilication like Word/Office they run on ARM as the x86, i.e. 32-bit version, in a effectively a Qemu full hardware emulatation Virtual Machine, am not uptodate but they promised like 2 years ago that they would make x86_64 (64 bit) work.
That's why Qualcomm, NXP, Renesas SOCs which have contracts with MS for Windows 10 IOT all have Hardware Virtualization support.

Running Linux on those on the other hand is easy and effectively all distributions can and have ARM versions and it's easy to develop and cross compile.

Just another "fucked up fact" about Windows 10 IOT, about the boot process: The SOC boots into a Bootloader, called "Das U-Boot", or short UBoot, which has a hardware description called Devicetree, that is then calling an UEFI – also an MS invention for PC, together with Intel, which essentially is a OS running under the OS but that aside – which calls ACPI, also a PC thing and also a VM even on PC, that get's the hardware description of UBoot transforms it to a UEFI HW description and hands it over, UEFI then loads ans starts the NT-Kernel and that hadns over the hardware desription.
The way Linux does it UBoot – usually a 1 to 2 MiB sized bootloader binary with all things like writing to ext4 filesystem, tftpboot, network boot, NAND support, eMMC, NOR, everything, has a Hardware OEM Devicetree loaded, loads the Linux Kernel and gives it the memory address where the Devicetree (DT) is located, i.e. hand over, and that's it.

Microsoft has never been and never will be a good software company, whatever good products they have that's bought and accquired tech, like github.

Github, why did MS buy them? Well MS Sharepoint was a POC software. Bad as SCM/VCS (Source control / Version Control) also the sahring of source was sh*t. Their windows codebase was unhandleable, but WinCE and windows 10 IOT for that matter work like this: MS gives the Hardware OEM access to the source for a hefty fee of course and they get the privilidge to port the OS to the Hardware for MS. To access the source of Windows 10 IOT the "customer" get access to MS' GitHub private repositories.
When MS moved their interal VCS to git they repository was 1 TB in size, because everything is one big "blob" of inter depencies, that is why KB's includes files like cmd.exe or strange DLLs just because a simple bug has been fixed, nothing that should even of relevance for most of the files but they are in there.
To make it easier for their developers MS devloped GVFS – bad choice because that was a name already used by the Linux Gnome project like 10 years before as "GVfs is GNOME's userspace virtual filesystem" – "Git Virtual File System" anyhow the whole filesystem is a git repository and every save in the Editor creates a git entry, i.e an entry in the VCS log. That's not how a VCS works or even should work; and worse they asked money for that, don't know if they still sell it but if so it still garbage.

whats a "bad install"?

WOW, W11 Bad Install is 20% worse than W10 …

I went through the mental gymnastics of seeing if trying lInux again would be worth it and it's still no. Large chunks of my game library wouldn't work, office & photshop equivalents aren't great for when I need them and I don't want to be fucking with Wine half the time just to get something to run. Case of if I still need to dual boot windows and manage that hassle, then why also add the extra drama of Linux. I want it to have better support but until it is, I can't jump ship.

Gaming on Linux is fine already but people don't want to have to think about stuff and that's fair. All that is really necessary for Linux is someone like valve taking ownership of a desktop distro. Pre builts could then offer "steamos certified" pre installs and it would largely be over except for production use cases

Xbox fans: "Microsoft is the greatest and can do no wrong!!!"

PC players: "I can't FKing stand the fact that we are forced to deal with Microsoft at all anymore."

I always turn off all of the windows update service bs along with their shitty defender and bloatware after fresh installing windows. Updates just break windows at the end of the day. A fresh install is needed every time you want optimal performance