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by tendstofortytwo 1779 days ago
I think Windows 10 is simply very I/O dependent, much more so than older Windows or Linux, so having that SSD or not would make or break your experience. I've had really new (8th gen Intel) laptops perform absolutely atrocious until I swapped in an SSD.

Ideally everyone should have an SSD in 2021, but that doesn't seem to have happened yet.
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tored 1779 days ago
Yes, Windows 10 is very I/O dependent, it will not be a pleasant experience with a mechanical drive. Not sure if Windows 8 was too, I didn't use Windows 8 much (we all know why).

If you can't afford a SSD drive, I recommend buy an older used one. Just as my machine is ancient, my SSD's are ancient too. My main drive is a Intel 530 180GB that started production in late of 2013.

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AstralStorm 1779 days ago
It was too, when you stayed in the new .NET UI, with additional bugs. Note that shell itself is one of those applications.

The problem there I think it's that all the CLR VMs are not free, specifically the libraries in them are loaded from disk, sizable and not shared across processes, and lazy loaded.

Same problem as if you ran a lot of JVM applications.

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