But Notepad is not web based? It's still a native app but now uses UWP instead.

da_grift_shift · 2026-01-10T18:52:39 1768071159

UWP, one of the 10+ frameworks used to run Windows 11's system components. Wonderful! Exemplary!

https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/o2a0kp/there_are...

Rohansi · 2026-01-10T20:59:00 1768078740

Those are design languages/styles, not frameworks. There is a fewer number of frameworks but it's still a handful. Win32, WPF, UWP, MAUI, etc... but at least they're fairly consistent at using UWP for system UI, with older bits using Win32 still.

pjmlp · 2026-01-10T19:02:33 1768071753

Which is exactly the problem, and isn't UWP, rather WinUI/WinAppSDK, the WinRT version on top of Win32, instead of UWP.

UWP is actually faster, yes that is that bad.