If you have adapted to it, rejoice! They are changing it back. Copilot will be a button beside Start button now.

It’s your 40 Series GPU dropping frames on DWM (the window manager).

Yeah and with Apple, it feels like we buy a license to use their hardware.

A lot of apps you launch do become child processes of explorer.exe. If explorer crashes they might misbehave or become zombie process in Unix terms. It depends on the app though. e.g. Firefox and Edge don’t but Chrome does.

That’s why I run explorer in multi-process mode. Folder windows cannot crash the shell process.