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  • Re: Is Windows 11 The Slowest Version Of Windows Ever?

    From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sun Jan 4 21:48:23 2026
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    On 2026-01-04 20:11, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:
    Amusing report <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/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>
    on some benchmarks conducted across a range of Windows versions, right
    back to XP. The tests looked at bootup speed, disk usage, RAM usage,
    number of browser tabs that can be opened at once, battery life, and a
    few representative application tasks.

    The hardware may be considered outdated. But that just emphasizes how
    finicky Windows 11 is in terms of its resource requirements: the
    hardware it requires to run properly is getting more and more
    expensive as we speak.

    I'm probably the only person on God's green Earth who actually thought
    that Windows 8 and 8.1 were okay if you ignored what the Start menu became.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy on Sun Jan 4 22:21:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 1/4/26 9:48 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2026-01-04 20:11, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

    Amusing report
    <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/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>
    on some benchmarks conducted across a range of Windows versions, right
    back to XP. The tests looked at bootup speed, disk usage, RAM usage,
    number of browser tabs that can be opened at once, battery life, and a
    few representative application tasks.

    The hardware may be considered outdated. But that just emphasizes how
    finicky Windows 11 is in terms of its resource requirements: the
    hardware it requires to run properly is getting more and more
    expensive as we speak.

    I'm probably the only person on God's green Earth who actually thought
    that Windows 8 and 8.1 were okay if you ignored what the Start menu became.


    When Win8 was introduced, they had an offer to get the Pro upgrade for
    $40 as a download, which I snapped up. The Start menu was easily
    reinstated with Classic Shell, one of the first things I did. I liked
    its new look compared to 7, and more importantly it performed a little
    better, having a slightly higher CPU requirement. One night after using
    8 and 8.1 for about a year and a half, I was half drunk and decided to
    go back to 7, and regretted it, but since 10's free upgrade applied to
    either version, it ended up being irrelevant maybe a year later.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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