Comment by p1necone

Comment by p1necone 11 days ago

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> but most programs feel actually slower than before

I feel like this is only true for people who happened to luck out with slightly overpowered hardware in very specific time periods.

As someone who used pretty average hardware in the windows 98/2000/xp era as a teenager even a low end modern laptop with an ssd running Windows 10/11/KDE/Gnome/Whatever is massively more responsive even running supposedly bloated webapps like vscode or slack.

Zardoz84 10 days ago

Well... I recommend you to try an old Amiga 1200 . You will find a big surprise how this 20 Mhz machine it's highly responsive, and boots faster that any current machine with Windows 10/11. However, it would not look fancy to our current eyes.

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  • doormatt 10 days ago

    Loading times from floppies wasn't even remotely quick.

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    • oniony 9 days ago

      That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.

      I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB.

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    • lupusreal 10 days ago

      Launching a game off a floppy was much faster than opening the bloatware that is steam and then downloading gigabytes of bloat.

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