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PC speed gains erased by modern software (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Time to uninstall Windows 11 and go back to 3.11! Sure, it won't run anything made since the mid 90s at best, but what it does run will surely be lightning fast!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao look at how blazing fast Windows 3.1 running inside a fucking web browser!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

A lightweight Linux distro can get you the same results with current software. Hell, even Ubuntu will. The deterrent has always been that you have to tinker with it to get it to work right, but that's a lot less true now then it was in the past. I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my wife's old iMac and it's lightening fast and worked straight out of the box with no tinkering whatsoever. It's about 20 times faster than it was running iOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Somebody released a Windows 3.1 ChatGPT client a couple weeks ago. So you’re golden!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would be curious about the feasibility of a "performance mode" that was basically "reboot you into a "single program" mode". I assume it would be unreasonable given so much software relies on the tools modern OSes provide, unless the software itself was made with this in mind.

You'd imagine some giant like Adobe would figure out a way to run dedicated machines, given they have so much software that uses lots of resources. But then, as best as I would find it for games, I imagine most people don't want to give up alt-tabbing to their web browsers.

Edit: Besides. The real benefits would hit until you were coding to the metal anyway, right? Assuming that's still feasible too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would be curious about the feasibility of a “performance mode” that was basically “reboot you into a “single program” mode”. I assume it would be unreasonable given so much software relies on the tools modern OSes provide, unless the software itself was made with this in mind.

You’d imagine some giant like Adobe would figure out a way to run dedicated machines, given they have so much software that uses lots of resources. But then, as best as I would find it for games, I imagine most people don’t want to give up alt-tabbing to their web browsers.

I think I heard the idea related to ChromeOS. Most people use their computer solely for starting a web browser. Sooo ... why not make the computer boot into a browser then?

I often use nothing but a browser. When I'm doing productive / creative work, even often with games, I still want to have a browser.