becauseBloat

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   by becauseBloat 13y ago

   Maybe it has something to do with the background service Firefox has to bundle with their Windows installer now. You know, because Windows registries and Windows user policies are borderline retarded. But I agree, I'm really not sure w
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   by becauseBloat 13y ago

   An application installed at the option of the end user is not subject to the same rigorous requirements that an, oftentimes, compulsory operating system is subject to. Especially when the operating system costs money, and lots of it.
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   by becauseBloat 13y ago

   I'm saying there's not much difference at all. Paying to upgrade delivers the same shit in a different package, even with more than ten times the hardware resources. It's a shitty upgrade treadmill that promises much and deli
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   by becauseBloat 13y ago

   But that sort of plays into my point. With a 64 bit version of XP, and 8GB of RAM, you could fit the entirety of the operating system in memory, paging file and all. A clean install of XP, with nothing else included, occupies about 3GB of d
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   by becauseBloat 13y ago

   ...mostly because newer versions of Windows are so absurdly bloated, and just as slow as a decades old machine on ever more powerful hardware, that there is almost zero benefit to upgrading beyond XP. Seriously. A single core 1.5GHz Pentium