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Sadly Windows 96 in a browser is more responsive that Windows 10 on real hardware.
by mrweasel 5y ago
Sadly Windows 96 in a browser is more responsive that Windows 10 on real hardware.
- fb03 5y agoI'd dare to say it is as snappy as i remembered win95 to be
- agumonkey 5y ago10$ bet: nobody was disappointed by win95 latency when booting their old 586 era machine
- canadianfella 5y ago$ before the numbers. $10.
- __del__ 5y agowin95 ushered in the 686 era, and people with 586 machines certainly were complaining that win31 had been faster.
- jsjohnst 5y ago> win95 ushered in the 686 era, and people with 586 machines certainly were complaining that win31 had been faster. Win95 debuted into an era when 486 was still the most common processor and 586 (aka Pentium) was just building steam. Windows 3.11 was faster on a 486 than Windows 95, so I’m guessing you mistakenly advanced processor generations in your comment.
- cptskippy 5y agoI would argue that Sleep and Hibernation came about because booting Windows took so long.
- agumonkey 5y agolast time i booted a win95 machine I was happy waiting during the splash screen :D I guess you have a point, I was mostly remembering the desktop part, I was surprised how the limited GUI felt snappier than my latest laptop with xfce and didn't lack much important features
- cptskippy 5y agoI can't remember the last time I booted Win95 but I remember the first. I had installed a Cyrix 586 overdrive chip in my Lazer 486sx 33mhz system that was maxed out with 32mb of RAM. It took forever and I wasn't sure if it would work.
- krige 5y agoHaving used win98 back on a Pentium 200 I was flabbergasted by how sluggish and prone to delay it was. Coming from AmigaOS there were jarring delays everywhere, even for something as simple as opening the Start Menu. God forbid I set an jpg wallpaper, Active Desktop murdered performance.
- vetinari 5y agoOne of the jokes at the time was: What is Windows? An i386 emulator for Pentium.
- chrisco255 5y agoSnappier, even. And it boots up faster. I remember Windows 98 taking 3-5 minutes to boot up.
- wongarsu 5y agoI remember Win98 opening the start menu instantly, but taking annoyingly long to open the "all programs" menu. Considering that this distinction is removed in Win10, Win10 on a 500GB SSD is snappier in that regard than Win98 was on a 3GB HDD.
- FerretFred 5y agoI agree!
- tored 5y agoWhat kind of hardware do you run? Mechanical drive? I have an ancient machine but with SSD, Windows 10 is still snappy.
- TheFreim 5y agoI switched a while back to Linux and like my setup much better than what I can do on windows but I think a lot of the "windows is slow" stuff is overblown. I temporarily had windows installed the other day and it was just fine in terms of being "snappy".
- ycuser2 5y agoOpening context menu of task bar items takes about 500 ms here with SDD and i7.
- tored 5y agoThat is an operation I never do. I guess slowness can be attributed to that the menu is application aware, customizable menu options per application. But there is also a slow animation when opening the menu. And on top of that as soon as you hover above an item in the taskbar it wants to show a thumbnail preview of that window. All combined the user interaction feels a bit weird. I turned off "Animations in the taskbar" and I think the context menu got somewhat faster.
- mdre 5y agoDo you have many shell extensions installed? Try disabling some items on the context menu.