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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by anyfoo on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:57PM (#42010217)
So the point is just “shorter list is easier to look through, and remember which processes are supposed to be there”?

In Linux it was usually pretty obvious what daemon did what on a somewhat well curated system, though. No svchost.exe, and no gargantuan system processes or a kernel overstepping its boundaries.

Of course, that’s very different nowadays…

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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by tetris11 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:08PM (#42010315)
Back then I was not so savvy with what every process did (over the years, of course, one learns). Windows XP had one main process, and everything else was practically userspace apps
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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by anyfoo on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:20PM (#42010459)
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the (slight) backlash you get is from your original statement that that is what makes it the “best OS”, when in reality it arguably rather indicates some problems.
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