CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

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.

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.

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.

totally. i have a macbook air m2 and it performs better than my work m1 pro because of the bloatware.

my zsh config spawns in ~90ms on my macbook air m2 while it takes 600ms in the m1 pro.