My Least Favorite Youtube Videos

My Least Favorite Youtube Videos
performance-memes, hardware-memes, software-bloat-memes, optimization-memes, retro-computing-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

You know those tech nostalgia videos where they boot up a Windows Vista machine running Electron apps and act shocked it takes 45 minutes to open Slack? Yeah, we get it, computers used to be slower. Turns out when you run bloated modern software on ancient hardware, it doesn't perform well. Groundbreaking observation.

Meanwhile, that same old PC could probably run DOS or lightweight Linux distros just fine. But no, let's install Chrome with 47 extensions and wonder why the CPU is crying. It's not the hardware that aged poorly—it's the software that got fat and lazy.

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