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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Windows Vista walked away as the fastest.

My girl

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I ran Vista for years, but recall people hating it.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

At the end of its life, Vista was quite competent.

But during the early years, the added animations and transparent features really tanked the performance on the hardware of that time. Combined with the issues any new OS has, it received much hate. Only after much optimization became it somewhat stable.

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember her as a sip of fresh air. No other OS was this appealing

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Making me want to revisit Vista.