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Re:Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness by jstimpfle on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:07AM (#37305449)
It's been ages that I've experienced a Windows install becoming slow. I haven't noticed any malware recently, either.
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Re:Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness by sshine on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:57AM (#37308041)
"Slow": I removed Windows on a freshly installed laptop less than 6 months ago. Its latency was noticeable in spite of running a 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12850HX. This is not a case of Windows "becoming slow", but of Windows "being slow". You could argue that my point of comparison is unreasonable, because I disable so many things in my operating system that I don't use that it's no wonder. Before starting my browser, I use less than 200MB RAM. My UI response time is lower than what my eye can perceive. I don't know exactly how fast that is, but I think gamers begin to care at around 10 ms.

Malware:

> Microsoft is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-11-onedrive-notificati...

Somehow, paying for an operating system does not relieve you of advertisement.

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Re:Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness by trelane on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:23AM (#37309283)
It used to be that either you paid for the software product, or the software was free and you were the product.

I guess they just, you know, fixed the glitch.

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