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Comment by ricardobayes

1 month ago

To be fair, compared to Linux (and to an extent, Mac), Windows has been sluggish, bloated and unreliable for a long time. XP was the last one that felt "solid", aka: fast, reliable and "just works".

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ricardobayes

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legitster  1 month ago

> reliable and "just works".

Getting advanced drivers on XP was often an absolute nightmare.

hulitu  1 month ago

> XP was the last one that felt "solid",

You mean XP SP2 ?

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