So every time I click the start menu and there’s a noticeable lag before the menu comes up isn’t just me overreacting?
Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.zip
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Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
EfficientEffigy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or when it crashes altogether. Now it makes sense
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, it is probably your 10 year old computer that is causing that. No issue on any of my client’s machines.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The start menu should not lag even on a 10 year old computer, that’s just absurd.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Found the consoomer
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
lol, I have 3 computers and each one is less than 2 years old.
Don’t defend the megacorp with a history of shitty software. It’s just a bad look, dude.
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I put Ubuntu with KDE Plasma on some 14 year old computers (with cheap SATA SSD upgrades) and their equivalent of a start menu opens with no lag. Surely the multi trillion dollar company should be able to compete with free competitors?
RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Ok, so WinAero points out React Native is cross-platform, but surely that shouldn’t matter for the Windows start menu, right? Unless it’s some ARM compatibility thing, making it easier to port or something.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Just sounds like Windows is slowly turning into a web app altogether
entwine413@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
That’s just VDI, not windows being a webapp.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Does anybody have a link to an actual source for the claim? I would absolutely believe it, but this article’s “source” just seems to be the same article but Russian. The guy on Twitter claiming to be the author of the code seems to be trolling, leaving me with no leads.
I want to send this to my coworker who hates React, but I don’t want to spread misinformation.
Oriion@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I think the whole thing comes from this video : www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMJNEFHj8b8&t=276 (at ~4:30)
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Well thats sounds like a pretty good source. What a joke Microsoft is ffs
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
Holy fuck, what a bunch of dipshits, these C-Suite Microsoft executives and developers are god damned moronic as fuck.
norra@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve also been on the hunt for a proper source, this was the closest official statement I found close to the subject matter, but it does not explicitly say
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Wtf??? That’s insanity…
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember when an OS was just supposed to sit there and look pretty while you used the computer for your usual stuff.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I wonder if the new right-click menu is also part of this “improvement”, because it too is slow. Actually, a lot of stuff that used to be really fast in Explorer is now not nearly as fast.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The new right click is too slow ? I use Windows 10 and the right click menu takes several seconds to open, can it really be worse ?
Daedskin@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
The Windows 10 right click menu is actually an option within the Windows 11 right click menu, under something like “more options”
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
An OS that requires you to upgrade your hardware and now we are discussing performance concerns? The writing was on the wall.
turtle@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What in tar nation? Why would they ever do such a thing? The main point of React Native is to make an application cross-platform (i.e., so it can run on multiple operating systems). What’s the point in developing a Windows Start menu that can run on macOS, Android, or whatever?
Unless they’re going for the second point of React Native, which is to be able to develop with JavaScript, which has an abundance of developers (i.e., it’s less expensive). Maybe they thought that this was the main point, regardless of performance issues.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Cross platform you say? So…like…ARM? 🙂
turtle@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
At a higher level, as in multiple operating systems. I think it’s probably high enough that it doesn’t care much about the hardware platform as long as it’s supported. But I don’t know the technical details of developing with React Native.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
Why would they ever do such a thing?
Hmm I wonder why…
The main point of React Native is to make an application cross-platform
Oh so you know? Why are you wondering then?
turtle@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Unnecessarily biting reply. Microsoft investor perhaps?
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I wonder how many collective watt hours this inefficiency adds up to over time in comparison to one that was well-optimized
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Headline: Horrible Software Platform Is Really Terrible, Still
Me: hm. *shrug*
sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Sparks skill concerns personally
freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Holy shit. Replacing OS native components with React Native is wild .
cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.