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Re:Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React by ChrisSD on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:04PM (#24955934)
Wait are we seriously at the point where XP is now considered "super no-cruft and lightweight"? XP? How times have changed.
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Re:Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React by toper-centage on Sunday November 01, 2020 @02:26AM (#24957784)
> How times have changed.

Windows has become a 20+GB OS with a mess of dumbed down UIs. So yes, XP was effective and light by today's standards. That's partially because your current mobile phones are more powerful than the PCs that used to run XP.

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