My father bought my nephews laptops for Xmas and didn’t talk to me about it before purchasing. He got them an i3 for one and a Ryzen 7 for the other with both having 8gb of ram for the memory and I just sighed. Like what sales person convinced you to go with 8gb of ram for Windows 11? So sad for their use.
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Windows 8.1 was great. My favourite iteration of Windows ever.
Yes officer, this comment right here.
[Screaming in linux]
Saw this video on YouTube a few days ago, it’s really interesting. Seemed like XP, 7 and (somehow 8.1) ran pretty good. Here’s the video for anyone wanting to see it :P https://youtu.be/7VZJO-hOT4c
Tho while 8 may be more performant, it’s also less usable imo. Would like to see how this stacks up with different OSs!
I'm more impressed that the same hardware ran so many versions of Windows.
Of course Win11 ran slow, the CPU the tests were done on is 6 generations behind the official cutoff. I'd rather see the results from the same experiment run on a i5-8400, which is min specs.
It'll still be slow, but at least it won't be an unsupported platform.