[laumars]

> Windows XP running on the hardware of the time was much more responsive[] than 10 running on modern hardware.

That very much depends on when in XP's time line you're commenting from.

When XP was first released it had literally double the hardware requirements as Windows 2000 and XP didn't really add much functionality despite that bump in requirements (to me, it felt mostly due to themes). Granted XP was quicker booting if you had a large font folder but it wasn't until SP2 when XP really became an obvious upgrade to 2000. By which point XP was 3 yeas old and even budget hardware was now higher than recommended specifications of XP.

[wongarsu]

Windows 10 is now 4 years old, so comparing XP on 2004 hardware to Windows 10 on current hardware does feel fair.

[tunap]

IIRC correctly, XP brought the 1-way firewall, native USB support and media codecs. Hence the doubling of requirements. The firewall may have come in SP2. Prior to SP2, XP was pretty buggy/useless.

Geeze, how time flies...

[laumars]

Multimedia codecs and USB were in Windows 2000. USB 2 support was in XP SP1 and the Firewall was in XP SP2.

[kasabali]

To be specific, XP has had ingress firewall and SP2 adds the egress counterpart.