My computer updated overnight and look at this lag, restarting doesn’t do anything lol.

[djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place]

My computer updated overnight and look at this lag, restarting doesn’t do anything lol. The rest of things are fine (as much as windows can I guess) but Start menu works in slow-mo.

[profan@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@djlink more like Stop menu at this point

[codecat@meow.social]

@djlink classic Microsoft have you seen OpenShell?

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@djlink You clearly missed a "hell no" tick box somewhere. Or maybe they added yet another secret one. The struggle continues.

[luisfcorreia@mastodon.social]

@djlink must have been rewriten by competing AI agents, probably in rust

(#irony)

[djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@codecat I haven't, but I think I'll use the power toys run box for now. it's kinda like the mac spotlight one

[codecat@meow.social]

@djlink Oh yeah that one's cool!

[themipper@mastodon.social]

@djlink probably needs to ask some AI endpoint if "clicking the start menu open key" means "opening the start menu". Then it has a debate with itself until it times out and falls back to legacy code opening the start menu.

[sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@djlink I literally never use the start menu, it’s been the dumping ground for all of MS’s bad ideas for years. Luckily PowerToys Run is vastly more usable

[djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sinbad that’s actually what I replaced it with now

[djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place]

2026-02 Preview Update (KB5077241) (26200.7922) seems to have fixed this, most of the lag is gone now. Still power-toys run is my best friend now.

[dougbarry@infosec.exchange]

@djlink the start menu is a whole web browser now. As others have suggested, OpenShell