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theandrewbailey on May 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load...

Windows 7 did the same thing. Windows 7 was perceived as better than Vista, in part because hardware and drivers had improved in the meantime.

maximus-decimus on May 1, 2025 [–]

At the end, my windows 7 machine would take an hour to boot if I remember right because Windows used 100% of my hard drive to do god knows what. Windows 7 at the end was literally unusable without an ssd.

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