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This is because many of the "native" windows components like the start menu are written in react native.

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This is wrong. The "recommended" section of the start menu is written with React Native but compiled to native XAML and not running web technologies. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44125217

modo_mario|3 months ago

Wait.....why develop that small part so differently than the rest?

TiredOfLife|3 months ago

Is that's why on a system where I removed widgets and web search results windows keeps msedgewebview2 active?

jadamson|3 months ago

Dear God, I hate the way the Windows 11 Start Menu takes slightly too long to open - long enough that I often accidentally close it again. You can actually watch CPU usage increase if you toggle it.

noir_lord|3 months ago

> You can actually watch CPU usage increase if you toggle it.

Not any more, I kept windows 11 around for gaming but I binned the partition, how they managed to make a 7950X3D/7900XTX feel "clunky" is astounding given that I live in KDE which has a reputation for been a "heavy" DE and yet it it feels instantaneously fast in every dimension compared to windows 11.

greggsy|3 months ago

Never use the start menu anymore with CmdPal in PowerToys.

macOS spoiled me.

pbhjpbhj|3 months ago

I thought they just rewrote Start in Rust?

ahoka|3 months ago

Anyone remembers Active Desktop?

denverllc|3 months ago

They main purpose of active desktop was to claim IE was an inextricable part of windows

habibur|3 months ago

Windows still has Active Desktop, doesn't it?