[eterm]

Not all of it was, some of it was very laggy and slow. Indeed the whole OS would frequently freeze up.

[stavros]

Sure, but nowadays all of it is laggy and slow. I cringe every time I'm faster than Slack, a text chat program.

[vendiddy]

Yep exactly. If we're talking about a cutting-edge app, I get the sluggishness.

But IRC used to respond instantly. Feels like apps are doing roughly the same thing but more slowly despite having computers that are orders of magnitude faster.

[Ratiofarmings]

Be careful not to mix slow CPUs with not having SSDs. A OS freezing up is almost always because something is broken or because it's waiting for a HDD to spin up.