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cisc
That's great but the context menu is still slow, annoying to use, and much worse than Windows 10.
ssdspoimdsjvv
the context menu.. Microsoft, if you're reading this.... why? It's objectively worse.
kristianp
Sounds like just tinkering at the edges. Still not upgrading my older X1 carbon with 16GB from windows 10.
ActionHank
Best upgrade you can put on there would be linux, will be better than win10 8 days of the week
kristianp
I agree, my other box is Linux. I keep it on Win 10 for compatibility reasons, but am thinking of reinstalling without enabling onedrive, as performance is dog slow. I'll probably try uninstalling Onedrive first.
dmitrygr
What worthy features have they added since win2k that justify the 7.75 GB more RAM being needed?
p0w3n3d
The architecture has been changed fundamentally. AFAIK the old windows 2000 had flaws beyond repair. On the other hand the UI overlay build on UI overlay built on UI overlay, making everything a html page etc was terrible direction
dmitrygr
You might be thinking of win9x. Win2k had no flaws and was perfect in all ways. I will not be taking questions.
winstonwinston
My bet is on Windows Millennium Edition (Windows ME). That was broken version. Windows 2000 was good.
olyjohn
[delayed]
p0w3n3d
Guys please install fresh windows 2000 and connect it to the internet. And 3...2...1... You got powned
degaart
> Win2k had no flaw

Win2k could only display 16-color icons in its systray

conception
Nobody needs more than 16-color icons.

—Bill Gates

1718627440
Interestingly enough Windows 7 boots faster (in a VM) than both Windows 10 and Windows XP. It feels faster than Windows 10 while running too.
shakna
Every click, keyboard tap, and peripheral event, are now logged and (most) of those are then sent back to Microsoft.

With Windows' socket-hogging, its a miracle they can be this invasive and only use that much RAM.

pjmlp
The same question could be asked about modern Linux distros versus 1990's.
dmitrygr
SMP, sleep-wake now works ~90% of the time compared to then's 10%, network drivers are more likely to support a random network card. Linux has improved a lot (a simpler task, as is started out being quite ... amateurish)
hulitu
Auto hiding scrollbars and useless online help even when you don't have an Internet connection. Ah, and gray on gray, 1px borders and usage of titlebars as window content. And Automatic Updates, Automatic Restarts, Automatic Encryption (they know the key), Automatic ID ( you are a good citizen and don't want to make anything stupid).
hn_submit
I'm running Linux Mint on a 15 year old desktop with 3GB RAM and it's sufficiently fast even for a software developer.

Why would anyone want or need an operating system that requires 16GB (!) of RAM to run decently? Most of the trash running is probably profiling or spying on you.

pjmlp
Slackware 2.0 run with 32 MB in 1996, so lets not pretend everything is that great on Linux land as well.
bubbluppugus
Corny argument for bragging rights only; users do more today that Slackware in 1996 just could not account for; it's not all useless bloat.

At one point the OS that's now a complete car was just a wheel which didn't do anything but roll.

pjmlp
Indeed where would those users be without Electron garbage.
bubbluppugus
Old man shouts at cloud.

From the generation that gave us SOAP and Trump.

If you cannot contribute except to complain about the kids log off.

Been hearing effectively the same whiny shit since I was a mid in the 1980s when your now long dead elders called your generation "gold star for nothings" and lamented humanity needed another Vietnam to thin you all out.

pjmlp
Wrong target group.
bubbluppugus
Biologically maybe. Was really just calling out how banal and repetitive the "kids and their god damn bullshit" energy is
pjmlp
Is it? We have fluffy, please do not touch, folks nowadays, unable to face any hard straight to the point direct criticism.
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