> Windows is pretty fast nowdays on modern hardware This feels the wrong way around. Windows development just stagnated for about a decade while hardware made

> Windows is pretty fast nowdays on modern hardware This feels the wrong way around. Windows development just stagnated for about a decade while hardware made huge leaps, so hardware speed increased much faster than Windows became slower. Therefore, "Windows is pretty fast nowadays on modern hardware". I remember Windows XP being able to boot from a hard drive without the progress bar making two full revolutions (so, like, 3-4 seconds?). Windows 7 managed to do something similar (finish booting before the animated Windows logo has fully "bloomed"), but already required an SSD and a multi-GHz multi-core processor to do so. Windows 10 does a few spinny spins, but uses a CPU that's another integer multiple faster and an NVMe SSD delivering hundreds of thousands of IOPS and gigabytes per second of bandwidth.