It's insane how Microsoft managed to make Windows unusable on a HDD
@matrix HDDs were always unusable
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Well I agree, but Linux is bearable with an HDD. Windows is simply not.
@matrix @r000t IIRC Linux's been optimized for slow HDDs so that system ONLY ever touches disk if really needs to or if it has no other choice, most stuff is happening in memory, this is probably not only because of slow HDDs but also because iowait is costly even on SSDs. I'd imagine windows just reads/writes to HDDs directly without much of a buffer in memory.
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I'm not sure how to do it objectively though. Maybe some small C program that makes a ton of small files and folders and randomly reads them. First order of business is getting the older builds.
I used to have one too with XP on it. I don't remember much but I remember playing Far Cry and Flatout 2 on it and that was quite laggy.
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