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This. The Windows 95 interface was optimal in many regards. Given how much faster computers are now, every UI operation should just be instantaneous. It's ridic
by drnick1 10mo ago
This. The Windows 95 interface was optimal in many regards. Given how much faster computers are now, every UI operation should just be instantaneous. It's ridiculous that desktop interfaces and Web pages became heavier as computers got faster, so that a heavy website today does not load meaningfully faster than a plain text webpage in 1995.
Edit: On Linux, you have desktop environments like LXQt for this. Unfortunately, last time I checked, Wayland was not supported.
- RunSet 10mo agoWayland being as needful as Liquid Glass itself.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 10mo agoBeyond that, any lag from Win95 era was probably because of spinning hard drives. Running it on a SSD would be instantaneous. Also, file search might even work, instead of whatever we have now.
- xnx 10mo agoI don't know how I used Windows before I installed Everything.
- komodo99 10mo agoI can attest to this one, 6 months ago I had a vintage pc I needed to rehab due to the curse of the proprietary ISA card. Imaged the failing drive to an ssd, sata->IDE adapter. P3 733MHz, 128 mb ram, W98SE, its astonishingly fast and responsive. Boots nearer to my memories of MSDOS 6.22 firing up than anything else. Acrobat reader still performs like a lead balloon though, even a miracle can't fix that one.
- CapsAdmin 10mo agoThe responsiveness of windows 2000 in a vm is insane. It feels like every action happens instantaneously. Contrast this with the "os" of my LG oled monitor. It seriously takes 5 seconds to open the settings menu.
- userbinator 10mo agoContrast this with the "os" of my LG oled monitor. It seriously takes 5 seconds to open the settings menu. I'm not sure what they use these days, but 10-15 years ago the MCU in a monitor was likely to be a ~10MHz 8051.
- userbinator 10mo agoA whole installation of Win95 with Office95 is only a few hundred MB and would fit entirely in RAM on a modern system. You can run a VM of it like that to experience the extreme speed. Even a browser these days uses several times that.
- ChoGGi 10mo agoPersonally, I can't wait till we have webpages that load slower then windows 95 boots.
- msie 10mo agoLoved the win95 interface. I've always wanted it on new Windows box but the existing solutions out there seem lacking.
- ZoomZoomZoom 10mo agoWayland is supported with LXQt, labwc replacing openbox. If anything, UX is snappy.
- k4rli 10mo agoWayland with Sway feels toptier already. Tiling WM is just so simple, clean, fast, and perfect in every way.
- prmoustache 10mo agoEven Gnome and KDE can feel much snappier if you remove effects and animations.