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[–] rickywithanm@aussie.zone 11 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

If windows 7 was still supported it would be my go to for the rare “I need windows” moments. Windows 11 seems sluggish to me

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

windows 11 is just ridiculous. it's slow even on state of the art computers, takes 6-8gb of ram just to idle on the damn desktop.

[–] rickywithanm@aussie.zone 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I got my father onto Linux a while ago and the first thing he commented on was how snappy the whole system was

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Same thing for one of my grandparents.