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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by FeatureIncomple on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:37PM (#20244077)
Yep

That, and it's also almost impossible to run Windows 8 or 10 with a HDD drive, even for basic stuff like internet browsing, etc.

SSD is basically required now.

Sad, because Linux is still pretty fast with HDD for basic usage.

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Re:Wine Developers Concerned with Ubuntu Dropping 32-Bit Sup... by asark on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:43PM (#20244136)
Can confirm, had a huge "WTF?" on installing Win8 on an HDD and seeing the friggin' OS UI pause constantly for no obvious reason. It was like running Win98 on a 75Mhz Pentium with 16MB of RAM. On my beefy quad-core Intel with 16GB of RAM. Added an SSD, problem went away. They're relying on the SSD to make up for some really lazy crap in their code.
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