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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday September 17, 2018 @10:08AM (#18006030)
For comparison, Windows 2000 has a recommended minimum requirement of 64MB of ram. Windows 95 recommended 8MB. That's the scale of bloat we're talking about. That a modern UI which does essentially the same things can feel unresponsive in any way on several orders of magnitude more resources says a lot about the priorities of modern software developers.
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by jen20 on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:09PM (#18007204)
Windows 95 to Windows 2000 is not a fair comparison, but Windows NT 4.0 is - which required 16MB and recommended 32MB.
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by phendrenad2 on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:49PM (#18007576)
I don’t think they were comparing 2000 to 95, but both if them to modern OSs (in some sense 8MB vs 64MB is such a small difference compared to modern OSs which basically need 8GB minimum)
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