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I run full Windows 10 on a tablet (dual core, 2GB RAM), and it's pretty amazing to me how many websites that have no reason to run slow completely fail on it.

I run full Windows 10 on a tablet (dual core, 2GB RAM), and it's pretty amazing to me how many websites that have no reason to run slow completely fail on it. I can only imagine it works fine on dev machines with much faster quad+ cores and 64GB of RAM or whatever. Just as an aside, it's done a lot to have the tablet be my primary "fiddle-at-home" machine: keeps me really conscious of resource limits, including ones I normally don't think of like screen size. (Most websites render terribly in landscape on a 10" tablet.)

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
Win10 just doesn't work well on 2GiB. Compressed pages are nice but not enough to prevent swapping. It also doesn't help that MS prevents you from running 32-bit on modern hardware to alleviate some of the memory pressure. The solution is to install 32-bit Linux on it. Then it won't suck.
- Paianni 9y ago
  Or i386 OpenBSD.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
  Firstly, shut your mouth -- you have no business telling me that my computers "suck" when they serve my needs. It doesn't suck and is one of the most pleasant machines I own due to small size and low upkeep of the OS. 32-bit Win10 works fine on dual-core 2GB of RAM for almost all of my uses (and is the one that shipped with it -- so perhaps check your sources before posting), with notable exceptions being Electron apps and bloated webpages. Your comment is absolutely bad: You're factually wrong about 32bit Win10; your opinion that it doesnt work well is useless when I clearly feel it works fine for me in general, modulo a few uses I called out; your recommendation of what to do is beyond offensive -- just run a different OS that won't solve the issue because it'll meet your pretentious standard? The issue is that certain websites are bloated and always going to overwhelm a dual-core Atom processor, regardless of OS. You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. You should also reconsider how you provide tech support, in general.
  - glogla 9y ago
    > Firstly, shut your mouth > You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. I don't even know what to say.
    - SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
      That you disagree with my assessment that angry lead-ins to detailed responses to people insulting your things are appropriate, but feel insulting other people's belongings (while providing incorrect and useless tech advice) is appropriate -- or even constructive? Because that's what you did say. (: I (as you mighy expect) disagree with your assessment of what makes a functional community.
  - sli 9y ago
    > You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. You should also reconsider how you provide tech support, in general. So an actively hostile comment in response to an opinionated one is somehow better and not measurably worse? You could just as easily have a discussion on why they think it objectively sucks, and you both may learn something from it.
    - SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
      I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely stand by as inappropriate) -- so yes, an angry but on-point comment is better than just throwing out "lolsux" uselessly, or in the case above, based on wrong information.
      - dang 9y ago
        If you keep posting like that, or like this for that matter, we will ban you. Please clean up your act. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- user5994461 9y ago
  Windows works great, the issue is the applications, and indirectly the developers of said applications, some of which are on HN. Most applications are requesting hundreds of megabytes if not entire gigabytes, the system will swap to death after you open an app and a browser tab on facebook. I remember a friend who bought a 2GB netbook, the thing froze to death whenever he opened just eclipse, he had to return it.

kevin_thibedeau 9y ago

Win10 just doesn't work well on 2GiB. Compressed pages are nice but not enough to prevent swapping. It also doesn't help that MS prevents you from running 32-bit on modern hardware to alleviate some of the memory pressure. The solution is to install 32-bit Linux on it. Then it won't suck.

Paianni 9y ago
Or i386 OpenBSD.
SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Firstly, shut your mouth -- you have no business telling me that my computers "suck" when they serve my needs. It doesn't suck and is one of the most pleasant machines I own due to small size and low upkeep of the OS. 32-bit Win10 works fine on dual-core 2GB of RAM for almost all of my uses (and is the one that shipped with it -- so perhaps check your sources before posting), with notable exceptions being Electron apps and bloated webpages. Your comment is absolutely bad: You're factually wrong about 32bit Win10; your opinion that it doesnt work well is useless when I clearly feel it works fine for me in general, modulo a few uses I called out; your recommendation of what to do is beyond offensive -- just run a different OS that won't solve the issue because it'll meet your pretentious standard? The issue is that certain websites are bloated and always going to overwhelm a dual-core Atom processor, regardless of OS. You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. You should also reconsider how you provide tech support, in general.
- glogla 9y ago
  > Firstly, shut your mouth > You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. I don't even know what to say.
  - SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
    That you disagree with my assessment that angry lead-ins to detailed responses to people insulting your things are appropriate, but feel insulting other people's belongings (while providing incorrect and useless tech advice) is appropriate -- or even constructive? Because that's what you did say. (: I (as you mighy expect) disagree with your assessment of what makes a functional community.
- sli 9y ago
  > You should refrain from posting comments like you did here -- they make the community worse. You should also reconsider how you provide tech support, in general. So an actively hostile comment in response to an opinionated one is somehow better and not measurably worse? You could just as easily have a discussion on why they think it objectively sucks, and you both may learn something from it.
  - SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
    I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely stand by as inappropriate) -- so yes, an angry but on-point comment is better than just throwing out "lolsux" uselessly, or in the case above, based on wrong information.
    - dang 9y ago
      If you keep posting like that, or like this for that matter, we will ban you. Please clean up your act. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
user5994461 9y ago
Windows works great, the issue is the applications, and indirectly the developers of said applications, some of which are on HN. Most applications are requesting hundreds of megabytes if not entire gigabytes, the system will swap to death after you open an app and a browser tab on facebook. I remember a friend who bought a 2GB netbook, the thing froze to death whenever he opened just eclipse, he had to return it.