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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by dumdumchan on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:20PM (#36448999)
The reason is backward compatibility. Each win32 api call has hundreds of extraneous conditionals handling edge cases for the purpose of backwards compatibility. That's just the price of being able to run ancient executables on new OS. GNU/Linux doesn't worry about that and everything opens instantaneously on it.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by the_overseer on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:29PM (#36449854)
Is this missing an /s?
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by zackees on Friday June 23, 2023 @01:43PM (#36450020)
Yeah 10 browser tabs on brave my ubuntu grinds to a halt.
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by simooooo on Saturday June 24, 2023 @02:10AM (#36456039)
My Ubuntu uses snap for key applications which take 10+ seconds to start
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Re:Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What h... by snovv_crash on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:30PM (#36451210)
If you disable the virus scanner and write a simple SDL app on Windows it will open instantly as well.
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