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Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm by speedgoose on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:12PM (#27723591)
Have you tried to do heavy computing on an old windows? In my experience the multi-tasking under load is so bad that you can't really use the machine while it's busy.

And then you can also think about the security improvements.

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Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm by zozbot234 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:27PM (#27723676)
The multitasking is just as bad on modern Windows, tbh. Given reasonably up-to-date hardware, a lightweight Linux install really can be as snappy as Windows 2000 was back in the day, and that's with a lot of security and usability improvements.
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Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm by speedgoose on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:52PM (#27724827)
My windows 10 laptops can redraw the mouse cursor and windows without much issues when it's rendering a video using all the cpu cores for example.
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Re:Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm by VortexDream on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:21PM (#27724048)
I genuinely don't think modern OS's are any better at multitasking with heavy loads. Particularly Linux and Windows are terrible at heavy mtitasking loads, at least as a software developer working with both environments.

I also don't see why the security improvements lead to such a massive decrease in performance.

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