Which doesn't count for that much when a whole lot of stuff has also become worse.

There's a reason as to why people were reluctant to jump on win10. There's a reason people didn't want win8 at all.

Not a lot of people benefit from having 20 cores to hit.

If by improvements you mean that suspend works like shit on newer machines, yes there have been.

Not really. Improvements like what?

I have a brand-new work laptop which absolutely crawls compared to my nearly-15-year-old Thinkpad T430. Is this slowness the Windows 11 advantage? My personal laptop runs plain ordinary Ubuntu 24.04 perfectly, and everything works.