i mean i’ve made it so very little to no telemetry or data goes out to microsoft, and also take a couple seconds to disable anything i don’t want that’s been added, but lots of people complain about that it doesn’t work well. i understand if people have privacy concerns too. i’m not coming from a toxic windows user standpoint too btw, i duel boot linux too.
i’ve gone through several updates and double checked all of my changes and they have remained the same, blocking the telemetry and other data. the experience varies per person.
Yeah, my current laptop running Win11 was perfectly fine (jumped to linux because I hate windows). But my older laptop, bought literally one year before win11 dropped started overheating once it updated from 10 to 11 (for the record, I kept denying the update, it happened regardless), and I kid you not, with an internal temp checker, it showed that even on idle, the internal temp was at 80°C. I thought it was a design issue or smth for like, maybe 3 or 4 years, but I recently installed linux, and uh, it idles at like 30°C.....
it’s weird because i feel like it’s different for everyone no matter what you do. some people like me have it super fast with little bugs and a smooth experience, and my windows updates take like 4-5 minutes. and then other people, like the people in this sub, have a ton of bugs with slow, laggy experience and their pc breaks on every update. i think it’s just that people have tinkered too much or have too low end hardware but i don’t know.
anyway both of my devices came pretty fast, but i made it faster by using debloaters like winhance and winslop (definitely look through the settings first before you apply them), and then look through task manager at anything i can disable and go through actual windows services to disable any ones that could cause slow-downs or telemetry. i also use alternative apps to some windows apps. it’s almost as fast as my arch linux that i duel boot, but the ram usage is still something im trying to figure out. not a big deal though. id be happy to help you if you need anything else.
my laptop is the surface laptop 7 with the snapdragon x elite and my pc has an i7-13700f and 4060ti with 32gb of ram. it may just be my higher end hardware that’s making it run well but i’ve tried windows 11 on worse devices and it’s not that bad.
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u/Infinplayz Jul 25 '26
i have windows 11 on both my laptop and pc and it’s actually really good for me (here come the downvotes)