Its not faster bereft of context, its just bloated. If you have enough resource to throw at it, its roughly the same. Theres some specific things that can themselves be slower, the Windows 11 Start Menu has had a lot of words written about its new implementation.
That _is_ slower. The fact that it's possible to throw enough resources at it that both "look" the same speed, doesn't change the fact that one of them is 10x slower.
I dont know what to tell you. I have endless user complaints at i5 16GB RAM, and none at i5 32GB RAM. Not to mention that I run 32 myself and its mostly fine. I can open menus.
I’ve got two machines for work - a desktop with an i9 and a laptop with an i7 and 32GB. The laptop is honestly a disgrace - I can’t believe it is sold as it is and marketed as a premium device. It’s “fine” for some light development but it fundamentally just doesn’t work - it misses inputs, it can’t handle chrome, regularly refuses to wake from sleep, etc. it does have an EPM solution on it which definitely makes it worse, but my 17 year old MacBook which can’t even load modern websites because safari is so out of date runs better than it.
