It's possible half of my problems are because I don't have admin rights, and the other half is because the machine is too weak.

Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway? I used to produce documents on an Amstrad PPC640. 640 stood for 640k of RAM (no hard disk). It was fine.

I understand the above makes me sound like an old fart (or fool), and we have moved on from DOS. But what does Windows 11 do that Windows 7 couldn't?

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beng-nl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I honestly think this is a difficult and fascinating question. This is like the dark energy of software cosmology. Why is the natural state to get larger and more complex for un-proportionate pleasure of use?

	▲	986aignan 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Largely, I think, because devs are given too powerful computers. It's easier for companies to "fix" or preemptively had off performance bugs by giving developers high-end computers than to spend extra development time truly fixing them.

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grebc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because they’re a bunch of perverts and want to know every button you clicked.

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hulitu 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway?

Because code writers are lazy and prefer to use 20 levels of abstraction or a 5MB library for a simple function.

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actionfromafar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Windows 11 can run many more different UI toolkits, all jumbled together. It has more graphical effects in there. It has so much telemetry and Microsoft Defender will never-ever give up and will inspect everything, all the time.