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It's about proportionality to me. Sure the UI was slow because of the HDD speeds, swap, etc, but it wasn't slower proportionally to how much faster those things
by genocidicbunny 4y ago
It's about proportionality to me. Sure the UI was slow because of the HDD speeds, swap, etc, but it wasn't slower proportionally to how much faster those things have gotten now. My first Windows 98 PC was probably hundreds of times slower than what I have now, but the modern experience hasn't gotten hundreds of times better.
There was a brief magical period when SSDs first became widely available that they seemed to have a huge impact because most software was still written for a HDD-based PC.