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yftsui ◴[] No.41031745[source]
Not surprising at all. My work issued MacBook top CPU time has been always `com.crowdstrike.falcon.Agent`, before Apple M1 released my Intel 2019 MacBook Pro can barely do any everyday task with that Agent running in the background. It crashed video calls, crashed the entire OS, I couldn't even smoothly type in an IDE back then.
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fernandotakai ◴[] No.41032329[source]
yup. i worked at a company that used crowdstrike's falcon agent and it was an incredible cpu hog.

nowadays i work at a place that uses a different solution and guess what: it's also a f-ing cpu (and i/o) hog -- it makes my m1 pro macbook slow to a crawl and there's no way to disable it.

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em500 ◴[] No.41032556[source]
Part of Windows' bad reputation (for instability and poor performance) is likely due to Windows being the standard on corporate computers (outside of tech companies) where admins/management insist on installing tons of "enterprise solutions" that slow quad core PCs with lightning fast SSDs to a crawl. MacOS has the same problem as soon as they're deployed in large corporations. I had a company issued MacBook where a bad printer driver cut the battery life in half for a month or so.
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1. jajko ◴[] No.41033490[source]
Quadcore? More like 12 core corei7-1365U. Its literally just a function of time (aka forced silent updates from admins) till it becomes slow like early 2000s desktops running modern software. Same for HDD.

Once I got new laptop due to some internal migration, it was blazingly fast. Well, not so much anymore. I literally don't install anything on it since receiving it, I simply can't (unless its just about copying to c: and it runs). Some colleagues have stuff like windows firewall running constantly on 50% cpu, nothing admins can fix apart from replacing ntb.