Disabling the web search helps with the pervasive Windows 11 lag a little bit. But unfortunately doesn't help the fact that Windows 11 has horrible menu layout and excruciatingly slow animations.
It just feels so bad to use. Its unresponsive because the OS is forcing you to wait for animations, all the time, for no reason other than "it looks sorta fancy". Its an artificial barrier. The computer CAN load and draw menus instantly, but Windows won't let you.
The person who approved this design does not understand the purpose of animations in a GUI. (To draw your eye quickly to the new information, and to mask HDD access times which no longer exist).
Turning off animations entirely is better ( way harder to do than it should be) but you lose the helpful "show you where to look" functionality.
Android 13 also has the problem of having slow annoying animations, but at least you can speed them up in the dev settings. How hard would it have been for Microsoft to put a menu speed option in the user settings?
Another example: If the Windows designers understood how to design a good GUI/UX, then they would have never seriously considered moving the start menu out of the corner.
The primary 2 reasons the start menu -something you are constantly clicking on- was in the lower left corner was
1: you can get the mouse to that corner with a quick swipe, no looking, thinking, precision, or aiming required.
In Windows 11 you now have to consciously move your eyes to the start button so you can precisely line up the mouse. This is so much worse.
2: Americans read to the right, starting at the top leftmost side of a page. So the corner menu is in an easy place to begin reading the information. This also allows the most information to fit in the menu.
The best place for the English start menu would probably be the top right, but Windows puts the program menus here instead, which are also very important.
This concept also is what makes windows 10 start menu so much better than say Windows XP. They made a menu that still works (arguably better) when moved to the top-right, which you'll see a lot of people do in countries that read right-to left.
Nobody on earth starts reading in the lower-center of the page. This is the worst possible location. It's unnatural and demands maximum eye movement. The Windows 11 solution was to eliminate most the text from the start menu. That's a death spiral of using bad decisions to try and compensate for other bad decisions.
Windows 11 still doesn't even have the option to move the start menu anywhere on the top or right sides of the screen.
Their default is the least-accessible design, and the low customizability really kills it.
The biggest problem of all of this is that anything you can do to try and make Windows 11 usable requires admin access to enable or install. No company is going to let their employees have this power for something that seems so minor, even though a faster OS means faster and more productive employees.
We all just get to sit and stew in resentment, until we rebel and demand our company dumps Windows for Mac, Google, or Linux.
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