Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?

Post by DmitryOlshansky » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 2:38 PM UTC

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #289

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Well, we use Linux dev machines but IT has loaded them up with enough panopticon software that several times a week for an hour or so I can not get enough CPU or resident RAM to do productive work. But at least there are no forced system reboots at inconvenient times during the work day.

At a previous job they offered Linux laptops (yay!), but... - umask was not 022, so installing pretty much anything with `sudo make install` would fail, as would some software. - Running nmap caused an alert to phone home to IT, who would nag me on slack. - Opening well-known ports to my LAN (like 22) caused an alert to IT. - An "agent" program ran constantly, often using 100% of a CPU. The system overall had about 4…

Post by Suppafly » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 3:57 PM UTC

47282847 wrote: post #295

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>Evangelizing KDE is not something I care about This, sometimes it's enough for things to just work as you expect so you can do your actual work. I don't really understand why so many people are unpaid part time evangelizers.

Personally, I want projects I like to survive, and drawing attention to them is one way to attempt to contribute to that, for not-exclusively-but-primarily egoistic reasoning.

Post by hollerith » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 9:45 PM UTC

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> People complain to me about various things, performance isn't one of them. which is fine, and you are doing the absolutely correct thing regarding fixing what's being complained about. But the complaints i keep hearing (and having myself) is that most apps are quite slow, and has been increasingly growing slower over time as updates arrives - mobile phones in particular.

I think this reflects a shift towards all software depending on a remote database, more than some change in programmer attitudes or bad software in general. Win 9x era software relied entirely on files for sharing, and there was no real notion of conflict resolution or collaboration beyond that. If you were lucky the program would hold a Windows file lock on a shared drive exported over a LAN using SMB and so anyone…

Post by lotharcable » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 9:58 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #260

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> KDE used to be the "bloated" desktop That’s not my recollection. I believe that the non-free license you mention was the major factor, in addition to the fact that KDE was written in C++ at a time when the free software community still preferred to write software primarily in C. GNOME was written using a free software toolkit, and it was written in C, and it was associated with the FSF.

I distinctly recall people criticizing C++ programs as "bloated" and slow compared to pure C programs.

Post by 7bit » Fri, May 02, 2025, 10:43 AM UTC

kjkjadksj wrote: post #208

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> And this is the so-called responsive design... I’m not sure if this was meant to be a pun, but “responsive design” has nothing to do with how quickly a UI loads. It’s about adapting to different screen sizes.

Plain html could do that too. People forget the ancient knowledge.