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Comment on Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?

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This is a silly question.

You can't compare an OS from 22 years ago to an OS from today.

Even if there was a simple definition of "worse", in this context, which there isn't, they're from completely different worlds designed for different uses on different hardware.

Sure a person can. A consistent metric is how long my key press takes to render on the default terminal.

You can't compare an OS from 22 years ago to an OS from today.

Yes, because the today's OS looks much worse.

Apollo Domain OS was a distributed, multiuser, multitasking OS (actually 3: Aegis, BSD and SYS5R3) which run on 4 MB of RAM in 1988. Today windows is strugling with 16 GB.

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