I've posted about this before, but this is a fantasy land of the "before times". Sure, a bare app on a bare system would open snappy, but who cares? Get any sig

I've posted about this before, but this is a fantasy land of the "before times". Sure, a bare app on a bare system would open snappy, but who cares? Get any significant load on that machine and it begins to wither and die. It regularly took minutes to load large docs, large 3d files, large dev environments. Sure it could load a simple text file instantly, but try to do a search through a few 10,000s of lines of code and watch things slow. Modern software does have bloat, and I think we need to fix it, but modern applications are doing far more than just slamming in a text file. In 2000, OSs and apps weren't connected to anything. Their functionality was miniscule compared to what we have today, and they crashed all the time. Losing your work was a constant, which is why people learned to make constant backups. I loved win2000, but I'd never go back there (although I would like advertisement to stay the hell out of my OS!)