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If I could, I’d still be running Windows NT 4.0 just for the simplicity and GUI. It was the best OS to come out if Redmond. I wish they had stuck with their “workstation” strategy, but unfortunately not.
I no longer use windows, but I just came to say Windows 8 is the best windows.
That is because MyPal is a fork of Pale Moon which forked from Firefox back when Firefox was still Firefox (before removing extension user freedoms, adopting Chrome's extension over it's own, and the heavy ram-bloat of multi-process, etc). Pale Moon only implemented "web components" last week. Sites that use web components features like custom html elements (defined by javascript) would just be blank spaces.
I wish Pale Moon hadn't added support but it should filter back in to MyPal eventually.
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I would bet on GPU driver issues. Some cards without the right driver can force CPU rendering making it extremely slow
Maybe the OP just needed to enable e.g. Nouveau with the appropriate kernel module parameters? I am regularly using a 14 year-old MacBook on plain X and it is surprisingly fast.
And that's why Linux will stay in the server for majority of people, not on their desktop.
"You just need to enable something with some parameters and you're all set!"
Seriously?
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Does it matter? An attacker has to know about a vulnerability to use it. Unless there's some reason that security researchers would be more focused on vulnerabilities in new systems than attackers are, or something like that.
This totally ignores the concept of "zero-days", vulnerabilities discovered that are only known by bad actors or known but not patched yet. This is very common, and these vulnerabilities are sold for a lot of money and the buyers make sure to protect their investment as long as possible. Of course that also means they go exclusively for high-value targets which means end users are most likely fine (see Pegasus as an…
I'm not ignoring them, I'm just assuming that vulnerabilities discovered by bad actors will follow more or less the same distribution as those found by security researchers.
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Google Project Zero is a list of known vulnerabilities. It is not a comprehensive list of all vulnerabilities.
Does it matter? An attacker has to know about a vulnerability to use it. Unless there's some reason that security researchers would be more focused on vulnerabilities in new systems than attackers are, or something like that.
Someone looking to hack the last remaining XP machines would just scroll down the list of new exploits and test them out.
This is not a sensible or technically sound thing to do. It is purely irrational. Win7 is already stuck on Chrome 110/111(?). You are not gaining much by doing this, and are assuming significant risk. Even if specific portions can be quantified away, it's the unknown unknowns that should scare you. Try a Linux distro again maybe? With some non-default themes and Wine, it really should make a better WinXP than WinXP.…
> This is not a sensible or technically sound thing to do. It is purely irrational. It is not purely irrational, in fact it is spelled right out in the article why the author does so: he finds the Windows XP interface much better as a user than any other OS. I can't say i fully agree personally, but the core of the problem and really the reason i don't see any of this as irrational is that people do get used to the i…