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Re:Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux by qbasic_forever on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:58PM (#36938351)
The terrible performance you remember is from slow hard drives and just a couple megabytes of RAM. Retro computing enthusiasts today have win 95 running on solid state flash disks and 32 megabytes of memory and it flies.
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Re:Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux by afavour on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:12PM (#36938428)
Right but the OP said:

> sure do feel nostalgic how fast and responsive the desktop “felt” back in those days

Wasn’t referring to the retro computing setups of today.

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