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Please remind me how we are moving forward. On application responsiveness to user input. (nitter.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nitter thread from Julio Merino on application responsiveness in early 2000's Windows computers versus modern Windows computers. Videos available in linked thread.

Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is.

Now look at opening the same apps on Windows 11 on a Surface Go 2 (quad-core i5 processor at 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, SSD). Everything is super sluggish.

For those thinking that the comparison was unfair, here is Windows 2000 on the same 600MHz machine. Both are from the same year, 1999. Note how the immediacy is still exactly the same and hadn’t been ruined yet.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I suspect it's networking. Every damn app links to something on a network and network calls are slooooow. Try opening apps on a machine that has a network connection but no internet access and it's a really bad experience. It's like they have to phone home before they finish loading and they'll sit there stopping everything until they timeout.