I have recently got MacBook Neo and it made me think... Why tf Windows is so shit?
Neo is a pretty limited weird piece of hardware if you think about it. CPU is plenty fast yes, but it has just 8GB of RAM, yet somehow Mac OS works fine and it is pretty hard to make it stutter.

So, before you reply me with /g/ replies, let's think about it more less scientifically?

What OS does in general?
Schedule processes
Manage process memory
Networking
I/O stuff (HDD etc)

I don't really know anything about task scheduling so I would like to hear your opinion, or like IO issues...
But what I tried to figure out is memory management.
Mac OS X (it always would be Mac OS X for me, Tim Apple) is pretty smart when it comes to memory management. It aggressively compresses pages, if you run something heavy it is pretty reasonable to expect like 3-5, perhaps 6 GB compressed. And it does bunch of other dirty tricks, probably it knows that slowing down GUI is a bad idea on device for celsius IQ people.

Linux... Well, you have zram, which works about the same as Mac OS memory compression, except it is more crude, but you can expect very similar results, albeit a bit slower feeling, probably because Linux doesn't know wtf GUI is.
However, if you have zram disabled, everything works fine until you start hitting swap, and then it shits itself. Like no, it doesn't kernel panic or anything, but rather just becomes unresponsive, but it is still doing its things.

Windows... I don't know. It should have memory compression, but apparently it is a joke, because max I have seen is 500 megs on 16 GB of RAM system, which is nothing. And even if it is not actively using pagefile (swap) it still feels kinda slow and stuttery.

So I am curious why? What are the low-level differences between Linux, Windows and Mac?

Also why tf it didnt let me post original post?
testing: I O HDD SSD fo pen etc u know

f open

Wow... this is the forbidden word? But... why ?

100%. The dorks I work with always leave a bunch of youtube tabs open in their profiles so when I go to use the shared PC, 14.8/16 GB of ram is already in use (causing the whole thing to freeze up most of the time due to pagefile/swap/sleepmode pooping the bed). Also the lock screen is covered in clickbait 'news' and applets... on a corporate PC... I can rant about copilot getting duct tapped to everything too if ya'll want or Edge and MSN network: got a dingus coworker that always gets snared by the wall of clickbait. He opens the browser to show me something for work and the wall of garbage articles gets him every time.

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. The dorks I work with always leave a bunch of youtube tabs open in their profiles so when I go to use the shared PC, 14.8/16 GB of ram is already in use

Idk, proper browser... Proper OS? Idk which one. It should keep tabs that aren't really used (i.e. not present on the screen or aren't playing videos) in swap. Like each tab is a subprocess, and it should get lower priority once it is in the background. I think Windows is capable of doing it.
Safari on Mac OS X (or even Firefox, don't remember) actively does it. Or Mac OS does it, I don't honestly know. So as a result you're not wasting any real RAM if amount of tabs is too large.

Also the lock screen is covered in clickbait 'news' and applets... on a corporate PC.

That obviously doesn't help, but... You know. Mac OS X isn't exactly lighweight, on cold boot it can consume 4-5 GB of RAM (out of 8)? It is not your LXQT desktop or i3 or whatever.
What is most fascinating is how Mac OS manages memory. It's elegant I would say. Compress pages, really old pages go to swap if conditions are met. And all of this is aware of GUI situation (background or foreground).
Linux can do memory compression and "temperature" sorting, sorta... But it is not aware about GUI... because there is no GUI for Linux, it's an afterthought.

I can rant about copilot getting duct tapped to everything

They took our right control! Nobody fucking asked for it.
I know for sure people have asked for less bloat... More performance. Etc.

But yeah, I have bought macbook neo after my shitbook got Win10 update... It told me "replace computer" (because I am not fucking dumb, secureboot off, TPM off so bitch doesn't even try to update)... but since I can't read I bought one with Apple.
I mean originally I wanted a desktop but prices man. First I couldn't get CPU, then RAM went up in price... Except for fucking OEMs, they still get it for the old price, judging by price difference between 8GB and 16GB laptops with identical specs. So I nearly bought random acer shitbook... but then I decided to pay $100 more and bought applel.
No regrets at all. But that is story for a different time.

I don't know what the fuck Microsoft is doing. They would become bankrupt in 3-4 years if this shit continues. I mean they were always making shit OSes, but not intentionally... Now they are just dumping an entire contents of sewage treatment plant onto you.

I did even more testing.
Windows has memory compression. Originally i wanted to use rammap, but.... it says it in taskmanager if you hover over.
Idle: 200Mb compressed size, roughly 600mb uncompressed (so similar as zram, mac os etc)
Under load (GIMP+noise, firefox, edge (ew i touched that)): 0 (yes zero) to 400 mb compressed. So uncompressed size is about 0 to 1200 mb.
It didn't even try compressing, straight to fucking SSD.
Both on 11 and 10. 12GB ram and 8GB respectively

I re-did the test on mac os, this time with vm_stats... Pagesize 16K, in compressor some amount of pages... So activity manager shows compressed size, and to get actual amount of memory used u multiply that by 3, because compression ratio was again around same ballpark.
All of this translates to 2GB compressed, 6GB uncompressed... In idle.
This might sound scary, but probably it is just caching files or something from SSD.

Linux... I didn't re-test, but from memory (haha get it :D), 0 in idle (because linux doesnt use zram for caching... perhaps u can enable it somehow?), whatever max size u told zram to be under full pressure, before it uses SSD.

So I dungetit. Why tf windows NT is worse than freetard garbage? Perhaps they should fire even more people, especially from shell department, and instead hire people that do kernel shit... Or don't hire anybody, because kernel people at Microsoft are probably not dumb, and just give them fucking task to solve this issue.