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[The-10-Pen]

I'm curious of everyone else's PERFORMANCE.
Win11 has become a very tough nut to crack (compared to XP, 7, and 10).
So far, this is where I'm at (just after startup, base OS, no additional apps installed).
Up time is misleading as it was "hibernating" over night.

Observations - "Normal" install had over 140 processes running, roughly the same memory, but idled along at between 4% and 12%!
Goal - at IDLE setup should be 0% to 1%, no higher, and RAM in my Win10 at idle is only 0.5 GB to 0.7 GB.

Oddity - One of my experiments had Win11 at 1.6 GB to 1.8 GB RAM, but process count was in the 80s.
Had process count all the way down to 54 to 56 but RAM actually increased to 2.9 to 3.1 instead of decreasing.

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[The-10-Pen]

I've kind of accidentally stumbled into a "Eureka Moment".
I've been focusing on getting all drivers to be recognized in Device Manager.

EUREKA !!!
Linux doesn't have drivers for all of these devices !!!

I'm getting MUCH better performance metrics by INTENTIONALLY *not* loading some of the drivers that Device Manager is asking for.
Maybe I should have known that, lol, but now it's kind of clear as to just "why" some Linux platforms outperform some Windows platforms.
I still maintain that a PROPERLY TWEAKED config of Windows is capable of a LOT more than that can be done from Linux.
But I'm young and still learning, lol.

[TSNH]

Linux has drivers, but they are mostly part of the kernel so you don't see them,
often however they are maintained by Linux developers, not companies who make hardware

[The-10-Pen]

My two largest drivers are display/graphics drivers.
I'd expect them to be large and I need them in order to use an external bigscreen.

Third largest, and very close to being second largest, is a driver specifically called "AMD AI Neural Processing Unit".
This one had a significant affect on idle RAM and CPU utilization.

I axed it and also axed "HP Support Assist", "HP Power State Notification", "AMD Crash Defender", "AMD Noise Suppression", "AMD Security Accelerator", two "AMD Windows Driver Framework" 'sensors', and two "AMD Power" 'services' and everything seems to be working MUCH FASTER than "with" these drivers.

I haven't ran any real "benchmarks", I'm going by OS-only nothing-installed idle RAM, CPU, threads, handles, and processes.
This is how I always did Win10 2016 but 2016 isn't working on this HP Envy x360 AMD Ryzen 5 laptop.
I am having good success with Win10 21H2 - which is a bit of a godsend that everything is working and I won't have to run Win11.