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Re:Electron 6.0 by userbinator on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:54AM (#20573574)
"want", for sufficiently well-chosen values of "want." ;-)

Every time you hear someone complain about how their new PC is so slow to do $trivial_task, think again. Most users unfortunately don't know any better, nor have the inclination to teach themselves to.

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Re:Electron 6.0 by paulryanrogers on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @09:01AM (#20574044)
This reminds me of the 'dir' test my friends and I used to gauge computer speed in the DOS era. Listing directories was so common its speed was easy to notice and compare to other machines.

Modern OS's don't really have an equivalent to that. Probably because usage has become more fragmented.

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