Why is Windows 11 slower than Windows 7 and Windows 10?
Why is Windows 11 slower than Windows 7 and Windows 10?
And there are numerous compact laptops built around Athlon, Pentium Silver or Celeron models that offer significantly lower performance compared to a Core i5 6500, all running with Windows 11. They tend to operate sluggishly, depending on their specifications. The reason system requirements have remained largely unchanged since Vista is that they still require a 1 GHz processor and a few gigabytes of RAM to handle the growing number of processes and services over time. The rest are characteristics unrelated to speed, similar to how high-end DirectX 9 graphics cards outperform low-end DirectX 10 or 11 ones.
The FX6300 should function adequately with Windows 11, although it tends to run more demanding processes compared to Windows 10. I often encounter newer versions that have additional processes running. There are many guides available online to help reduce Windows 11, but you need to grasp some of the changes. It’s important not to remove any features essential for updates or stability.
I currently use a 22h2 build of Windows 11 on an older Q6600 HP system with its built-in GPU, and it performs well on that setup. However, since it isn’t officially supported, I must manually update the version. Still, it receives security updates, and the FX should handle them better.
Windows Vista performed similarly. Everything worked well on XP before suddenly, around 90% of PCs became outdated when Vista launched. I’ve always believed it was a clear strategy from PC manufacturers to push upgrades, targeting those who didn’t need them. I’m curious about the incentives Microsoft received back then and still question what they’re getting now for making so many systems obsolete without a purpose.
Having an updated operating system that exceeds your computer's capabilities doesn't necessarily mean your device is outdated, unless this new OS introduces features you can't function without. This applies to nearly all users, with a near certainty of 99.9999999%.
It does when they pull support for that old OS that is plenty good enough. Did we need win vista? Nope win xp still gets the job done but pull support and introduce "safety" features that need new hardware.
Win 7 is still good enough but we are forced to win 10 why? No new hardware was needed buts it's still forced on people who don't need nor want it. No kick backs there but lots of juicy data mining dollars to get.
Software being "unsupported" doesn't mean anything other than that: the software isn't going to get attention from the maintainers anymore. Again, there's nothing stopping you from continuing using the software other than the security implications. And even then, if it's severe enough, it might force Microsoft's hand.
Also there was a hardware requirement change for Windows 10 from Windows 7, which was introduced in Windows 8.1:
Support for the CMPXCHG16B instruction
. Why was it needed? To allow for all versions of Windows to support a user memory space larger than 8TB. Though this is only a problem if you were using something older than a Core 2.
In the end though, if you let other people dictate what obsolete means, you're making problems for yourself.