Well, I ran Windows 11 on a 4th gen i7 Apple Macbook (hardware requirements bypassed) 
It worked, but wasn’t ideal, and it has a SATA SSD and 16GB of RAM. Basic web browsing with Firefox was passable but anything more serious was frustrating. Fedora 41 KDE on the same laptop was much better, very usable but still far from “good” user experience, the UI was noticeably laggy. So there is also the question of personal expectations and tolerance. How much slowness one is willing to put up with.
That sounds like it could be an issue with the Macbook. I’ve had Win 11 preinstalled on my last 3 laptops and on each one it worked very smoothly. The oldest of those was a Lenovo Yoga with an AMD Ryzen 5 and integrated graphics. It didn’t run noticeably better or worse than linux in a general sense, just comparable.
The issue was “old hardware” and the matter of personal levels of tolerance for what is considered “smooth”. What is “smooth” for one person is “sluggish” for another as there is no way to quantify “smooth”. It’s the same issue with games: some people play at 40FPS and call it “fine” or “smooth”. I get nauseous when FPS drops that low.
Hi @Espionage724
thanks for your suggestions. I tried the watch command and most of the time it is lower than 2000 but not all the time.
My power mode right now is on ‘Balanced’
By running the power mode to ‘Performance’ it is always above 2000
I’ll check if this has an impact on the ‘perceived’ performance.
I’ll take into accound that my hard drive might actually be what make what make my laptop slow.
Thank you all for all of your comments, y the way, I’ll read them carefully
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My experience has also been that Fedora 41 is quite slower on the same hardware or VM’s as Fedora 40.
It is not unusual that new releases at first are slightly slower, but this time it has been much more noticeable. On most systems I have now gone back to Fedora 40 and am enjoying much better performance for now and keeping one physical and one virtual machine on Fed41 to continue to test and watch the development. Hopefully things will iron out before Fedora 42.
In VM’s with Fed41, you will need to hold back mesa, as otherwise your VM’s won’t get to the desktop any more. Other posts/tickets already track this issue.
So for now, if you are experience slower than expected performance with 41, I would recommend you test with 40.
Hi Antonio,
From the symptoms described and the Slow-Spinnig-Rust you have installed I would say “Replace the HDD with an SDD” … your HDD is the “Most” likely cause …