Recently I got to operate a Windows 11 machine. It was a ThinkPad T14 produced in 2020, with 16 gigabytes of RAM, a relatively recent Intel Core i5, and a 512-gigabyte PCIe SSD. This is much more powerful than one of my usual computers, a ThinkPad X220i. When I opened taskmgr I was met with about 200 processes1. Opening a new window in explorer, the file manager, takes about 5 seconds to respond, and an additional 5 seconds in a blank window. Windows updates have taken more than 20 gigabytes ...
