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On my barebones Windows 10, clicking the WiFi menu makes it hang for up to 5 seconds until the little popup appears where you can turn WiFi on/off or choose the network.

Windows 2000 on the Pentium 3 with 300 MHz felt way snappier.

The Linux desktop isn't perfect, but basic stuff like that works way better there on the same machine.

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Windows 10 is in fact doing something when you click the Wi-Fi icon in the taskbar. That's the moment it chooses to actually poll for networks. This ties up your Wi-Fi card and dramatically increases ping for about two seconds, in short pulses.

The UI should instantly display the previously known APN list while loading the new one in the background. Microsoft has multiple teams researching asynchronous programming, but their work doesn’t seem to make it to the desktop.

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