• Zink@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    That’s because in the Celeron 266-300A-350 days we overclockers were as gods! And if you had just moved from a modem connection to a university LAN connection like me, it was peak computer usage.

    The way you describe performance then and now makes me wonder if you’re thinking mostly about running SUSE back then and if you’re talking about a Windows (Teams) machine now. I definitely remember things like the right-click menu taking forever to load sometimes on old windows & HDD based systems.

    Using Linux on my work & home PCs now after being used to Windows on them first, they have that responsive feel back.

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      3 days ago

      I use Arch BTW.

      Teams runs on just about anything, which is part of why it’s so slow.

      Back in the day Windows 98 was definitly faster than SUSE on my machine. Drivers back then on Linux were rough and if you wanted to play a game you’d need Windows or DOS for sure.

      I only had 56k dialup back then, no fast internet for me.

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        19 hours ago

        Gotcha. Something about what you said made it sound like the standard windows flavor to me.

        Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten so used to running teams in a browser tab that its lagginess just feels like a slow loading webpage refresh, while the rest of the system’s GUI is flawless.