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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:10PM (#44378896)
I took a screenshot and pasted it into the new Win11 Paint. Even minimized, Paint was constantly using 5% CPU and sitting at ~250MB of RAM. I guess I can begrudgingly get over the RAM, but squandering the CPU like that is ridiculous.

What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by hulitu on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:38PM (#44379236)
> What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

We are talking about Microsoft here.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by hnlmorg on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:18AM (#44394138)
Exactly. Their software has always been shit.

Microsoft didn’t become dominant because of the quality of their software. They became dominant because they knew how to run a an aggressively successful business better than their competitors.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by dogleash on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @12:46PM (#44379332)
>What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

Sounds like some dangerous cowboy coding wrongthink you've got going on over there.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by jandrese on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @01:00PM (#44379506)
I assume it is basically an Electron app now. Anything will be bloated when it's a full web browser running some webapp.
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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by contextfree on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:40PM (#44382056)
No, it doesn't use Electron or webviews afaik. The UI is mostly WinUI2/UWP/XAML Islands based however
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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by jandrese on Thursday June 26, 2025 @10:14AM (#44387646)
If that's the case then why is it so heavy? In comparison The Gimp consumes about 80MB of memory and burns a trivial amount of when not being actively used.
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