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"The speed of software halves every 18 months." So true. Few anecdotal experiences. Visual Studio 2008 (express), installation space required was few hundred

"The speed of software halves every 18 months." So true. Few anecdotal experiences. Visual Studio 2008 (express), installation space required was few hundred megs. You clicked on a .cpp file and the IDE would launch immediately. Today you have Visual Studio 2015, which requires +10gb of space and takes so fricken long time to launch that if you double click on that same .cpp file now, by the time the IDE launches you're already 10 minutes into some other task and have already forgotten why that IDE opens up now. Another example, Windows XP. Heck, you can just install it in a VM today for example, give it half a gig of ram and boot it. And observe, it's blitzing fast! From boot to login takes no time! Try the same with Win10. "Preparing to login in, please wait", "please wait this", "please wait that", "preparing to configure this/that", etc. blah blah and for what? Is there something that I couldn't do in WinXP that I can now do in Win10? How about VS? Honestly I don't know, I'm doing all the same computational tasks now that I was doing back in the WinXP era. And the Open Source Linux community is not redeemed either. Anyone tried any recent Ubuntu with Unity. The master of sluggishness. Thank god you can always still install ArchLinux + Fluxbox and not deal with the bloat.

trump2016 10y ago
This is exactly why I decided to get a Chromebook and install Linux (Gallium OS) on it rather than get a Windows 10 laptop (Macbooks are too expensive for me right now). I wanted a Windows computer initially, but I just had to return my Windows 10 laptop after growing frustrated with how unbelievably slow it was. It was ridiculous. Windows 10 is an abomination. My $230 CB5-571 is doing just fine. I will say, though, that Microsoft Office is unrivaled in my opinion, and it's unfortunate that it's not compatible with Linux. Still, Google Drive has served me well so far.

trump2016 10y ago

This is exactly why I decided to get a Chromebook and install Linux (Gallium OS) on it rather than get a Windows 10 laptop (Macbooks are too expensive for me right now). I wanted a Windows computer initially, but I just had to return my Windows 10 laptop after growing frustrated with how unbelievably slow it was. It was ridiculous. Windows 10 is an abomination. My $230 CB5-571 is doing just fine. I will say, though, that Microsoft Office is unrivaled in my opinion, and it's unfortunate that it's not compatible with Linux. Still, Google Drive has served me well so far.