News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority. Parent comment

Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by vel0city on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:26PM (#43974668)
It's probably more so that any corporate Windows box has dozens of extra security and metrics agents interrupting and blocking every network request and file open and OS syscall installed by IT teams while the Macs have some very basic MDM profile applied.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The world could run on older hardware if software optimiz... by CelestialMystic on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @08:42AM (#43983833)
This is exactly it. My Debian Install on older hardware than my work machine is relatively snappy. The real killer is the Windows Defender Scans once a week. 20-30% CPU usage for the entire morning because it is trying to scan some CDK.OUT directory (if I delete the directory, the scan doesn't take nearly as long).
[ Parent | on HN ]