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> The AV stuff is huge. It’s always why windows Windows 8 era PCs were maybe the most brutally slow. IIRC Win8's also the first Windows I found unusable on spi
by bamfly 3y ago
> The AV stuff is huge. It’s always why windows Windows 8 era PCs were maybe the most brutally slow.
IIRC Win8's also the first Windows I found unusable on spinning rust. Part of it may have been AV, but things like opening the start menu had significantly worse delays there than on a flash disk. It seems like they'd simply disregarded all development/design discipline about disk I/O, across the OS.
... which, you keep doing that everywhere, lots of devs making lazy choices to just grab this from disk here or just write a little data synchronously there, and it'll add up to non-negligible delay, even on a flash disk. And it'll make an HDD craaaawl. Which is exactly what happened.
- hellotomyrars 3y agoYes. It’s a combination of those factors for sure. There are just so many more constant disk hits from 8 and on, and a good deal of them are from Defender. I do PC service and repair on the side and tossing in a cheap SSD makes most people happy because the drive being slammed was the only thing “wrong” with their computer. Thankfully we’re largely past that. That said, I rarely see malware on most of the machines I touch. I get more calls about automatically fullscreened browser windows with scare text and a phone number to call than any actual software problems. Defender does work well enough for any average person and I’m happy if only because the vast majority of AV software is sold in the most disgusting way. Just as bad as the malware scare tactics honestly.