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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 1 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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jamal-kumar ◴[23 Jun 23 14:32 UTC] No.36447312[source]▶
I think a lot of that could be brought back to something closer to resembling immediacy if you go and take the time to remove all the stuff they introduced along with vista (The fadein/fadeout animations especially)
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toyg ◴[23 Jun 23 14:35 UTC] No.36447349[source]▶
I think you mean "with XP". So bloated, with all that bevelling and shadows and DRM...
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blarghyblarg ◴[23 Jun 23 14:37 UTC] No.36447383[source]▶
Windows 2000 was peak Windows, minus security. Security is miles and miles better today.

Nothing will change my mind about this, ever. It's been downhill since then.

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vel0city ◴[23 Jun 23 14:56 UTC] No.36447684[source]▶
Does Windows 2000 handle native Bluetooth better? What about WiFi SSID management? Does it ship with good IPv6 support?
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blarghyblarg ◴[23 Jun 23 15:24 UTC] No.36448134[source]▶
no, no, and no. Lets see if we can petition Microsoft to add them, and then we'll see if Win2000 still runs decently fast on a P4 with 4gb of ram.

My guess is: yes, it will.

Somehow, in the past 15 years, "progress" seems to include "software keeps getting noticeably worse, but anyone pointing this out has to be shot down because progress."

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1. Tanoc ◴[23 Jun 23 15:59 UTC] No.36448682[source]▶
There's been a problem of lateral rather than forward progress in nearly all industries since the early 2000s. Lateral progress being a different way to do the same exact thing (a doorknob versus a lever latch for example), and forward progress being a new way to do a similar thing but in a much more efficient and modular way.

It's been bothering me for some time ever since I noticed it with the advent of IoT "smart" devices that have the same features as traditional appliances for twice the cost and technical debt. My washing machine still washes clothes and turns itself off, but now I need to set the wash type using my phone because lateral progress dictates a physical interface on the device itself is obsolete.