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		ChrisSD on Oct 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built wit... Wait are we seriously at the point where XP is now considered "super no-cruft and lightweight"? XP? How times have changed.

toper-centage on Nov 1, 2020 [–]

> How times have changed.

Windows has become a 20+GB OS with a mess of dumbed down UIs. So yes, XP was effective and light by today's standards. That's partially because your current mobile phones are more powerful than the PCs that used to run XP.

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