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MS Word opens twice as slow on Windows 11 PCs as on MacBooks, and Microsoft has no excuse (www.windowslatest.com)
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[+] [S] -21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

12 seconds for a 500-page doc? Are people just that impatient these days? Does everyone have ADHD? People will find anything to complain about.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    Not sure how well Moore's law is holding up these days, but considering a typical PC is streaming hi res video these days opening a 500 page text file should happen so fast you don't even notice it.

    Modern Windows and many of the core software are pathetically unoptimized, wasting time and resources because as others have pointed out, "fuck you" seems to be the mantra now days.

    I dig through a ton of reference material every day for work, and should be able to open a file, control-f to the relevant information, and close it again as fast as my fingers can type.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Yeah somehow the other guy fails to see how that 12 seconds lag with freaking Microsoft Word will correlate with bad performance in other areas in Windows too. FFS, even the Win11 start menu has horrible optimization issues with CPU lag spikes. Oh no! It's gotta be my ADHD though!!

    Waiting 12 seconds for simply opening a word document is the tip of the enshitification iceberg. I would say "slippery slope" for this example here, but we are looonngggg past that point now. Don't use windows!

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 13 hours ago*

    Windows 11 recently had to start enabling some kind of turbo CPU mode just to open a right click menu on files, because otherwise it took more than 5-10 seconds. Same with File Browser.

    https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-11-low-latency-profile-cpu-boost

    They are extremely incompetent.

    I had to use Teams for a week because of a second jpb I do occasional contracts for, and it was baffling how extremely worse has it gotten in the last two years.

    Three times! It has happened that the teams would load (after going through login loop twice times for some reason) that it would load and show everything as usuall. Only after like three hours of waiting for answer I've noticed that my message actually didn't send, without any error or indicator, and that everyone's, including mine, status is "Undefined" and nothing works - messages don't send, just appear sent, and I'm not getting any messages.

    The only indicator was that everyone's status dot was a hollow grey circle, and that messages did not have the sent checkmark but just a hollow dot next to them. Even refreshing did not fix it and I had to relog it for it to start working.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 14 hours ago

    All the extra features that require extra Ram and CPU are there because someone requested it. Sure you can have your office 97 that runs on 16MB, but then you would not be able to embed your AutoCAD drawings, load data from an XML file on the Internet or other snazziness that 99% of users don't need.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Then you should use a format and program that's less cumbersome. Word isn't Notepad. It's much more complex.

    I don't even use Word. Wouldn't even if it opened instantaneously. But I sure as fuck not going to be worked up over something taking a few seconds to open.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 hours ago*

    After working a job in a place with no MS office suite, etc, I can attest that yes, you do grow extremely impatient. Now it takes me like 30 seconds to open Microsoft office - in my old job we'd use slack for most our communication and even when we'd open Gmail it would be 2-3 seconds. Markdown docs would open in less than a second. So after this job where everything was instant it was super frustrating to go back to Microsoft products. It's not only having to wait that's annoying, for me it's especially that I'm unable to stay in a state of flow.

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