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I support a lot of different manufacturing places and so see a wide, wide, variety of hardware. You don't know how terrible Windows 11 is until you start going
by a2tech 2y ago
I support a lot of different manufacturing places and so see a wide, wide, variety of hardware.
You don't know how terrible Windows 11 is until you start going backwards, peeling off layers of the onion. Once you're back to XP/2000, you're like..oh shit. People spent years thinking about how this would all work. And it's crazy fast. Windows snap into place almost instantly. Sure, search doesn't work, but search doesn't work on Windows 11 reliably either.
Everything you actually need to work? Works better and faster in the old stuff. When I remote into those machines even the remote session feels faster. How does a Windows XP machine running on a 733mhz machine from the last century feel faster at navigating windows and settings and launching programs than my 3k dollar workstation from last year?
- dharmab 2y agoI'm willing to bet if you put modern SSDs in old computers people would prefer Office 2003 to modern Office.
- a2tech 2y agoOffice 2003 on spinning rust launches and completes tasks faster than modern Office on brand new machines with NVME drives. On that 733mhz machine with Office 2003, Excel will be open within a few seconds if I double click on it--if you move up to a 1ghz+ machine it opens up so fast it might as well be instant.
- joseda-hg 2y agoHow modern can you go with XP? Would you have to do weird adapters/emulators to get a full install working?
- a2tech 2y agoSomeone up thread mentioned that there's a WinXP image available that has a ton of back ported drivers and things baked in for NVME support and modern chipsets. So...pretty darn modern I think!
- bambax 2y agoThat's also my experience.
- Kwpolska 2y agoI certainly wouldn't, the ribbon has much better discoverability than tiny toolbars. And Office 2003 performed reasonably well with HDDs anyway.
- dmonitor 2y agoTurn off the animations. Everything becomes significantly faster.