[clintonwoo]

I've experienced a similar effect but from a fresh operating system reinstall from any of Windows, Mac and Linux. I expect it's due to a fresh disk format and install, so all the files should be unfragmented for faster sequential reads. Also over time the search indices and data builds up which just makes things slower.

I haven't used Windows 11 much myself but I just thought I would mention this. I've even seen this effect on an iPad where a fresh install makes searching fast again but over time the search function just becomes excruciatingly slow.

[tssva]

I have done clean installs of Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04 and Fedora 36 on my ThinkPad over the last few months. From best to worse perceived performance the order is Windows 11, Windows 10, Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04. Windows 11 also has better power usage than Windows 10 on my ThinkPad. Fedora and Ubuntu have greatly improved over the last year as far as battery usage, kernel 5.17 seems to be when the big improvement happened, but are still significantly more power hungry than either version of Windows.

[nateb2022]

Yeah I always disable search daemons/services, since I don't rely upon those features much, and likewise I also disable thumbnails on whatever file manager I use -- between the two of those that probably accounts for a lot of the slowness that builds up over time.

Another big factor is browser caches -- they degrade the storage medium and slow with age. I disable on-disk and persistent caches entirely in Firefox by setting `cache.disk.enable` to false in `about:config`. I've found that by doing all three, I prevent a lot of needless read/write/thrashing of my storage, and also increase performance a lot since there's less IO going on. With the proper configuration, I've found that any OS can stay fast over time.