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Linux has reached 2.32% in Steam Hardware Survey for May 2024 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] chemical_cutthroat 89 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is one dude with a Windows 8 laptop that turns it on once per month just to take this survey.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

*8.1

Due to the optimizations Windows 8.1 is my favorite Windows version. When I compared it to Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon on my old (now dead) laptop, it performed slightly faster. It also somehow beat Windows XP which is what that thing was made for. Although a part of that could have been that half of the drivers only worked in XP, so it had more to load.

Maybe if they properly called it Windows 9, it would have caught on. It was definitely different enough from 8.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does "perform slightly faster" mean? Boot time? App loading? CPU perf?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yup. Boot time and loading of system apps. 8.1 was basically instant while XP and Mint had slight delay. Not a big deal though, just something interesting for being Windows. After all, it was made for tablets.

I also put Windows 11 on it despite being unsupported. That was slower, but still OK-ish with SSD. Definitely nowhere near Linux Mint though. The background processes were just killing the CPU. Thankfully, thanks to being made in 2007 the cooler could easily take 100% CPU usage. However, it would hover around just 6% with network disconnected. Hmmm...
The CPU was Core 2 Duo T7500 upgraded from T7100. I got it on AliExpress for €1. It seems some people were using them for... making keychains? Anyway, they were sold as functional.

I wish laptop CPUs and GPUs were still upgradable. The GPU was GeForce 8600M.

[–] Psythik 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Loved 8.1 so much. It was like the perfect balance of Windows 7 and Windows 10. I stuck with it for a very long time but was forced to finally move on because programs would constantly break since no one used it, so no one tested their software for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe if they properly called it Windows 9, it would have caught on.

"Windows 9" was a no-go due to lazy programmers. Could have gone with "Windows Nine" though, which would have brought the naming in line with "Xbox One"