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by bitwize 1095 days ago
Equivalent light apps (e.g., xterm) come up near instantaneously for me. Even Emacs opens in just a few hundred ms.

Back in the day when I was rocking a Pentium, it impressed me how God damn FAST X was. Windows NT (3.51 and 4.0) seemed sluggish in comparison.