Windows 11 often requires new hardware. But that will be extremely pricey or have very little RAM for a while.

I dont believe that a single competent person works at Micro$oft anymore, but maybe maybe this could lead them to make a less shitty OS?

And garbage software like Adobe Creative Cloud too?

They obviously dont care about users, but the pain could become too big.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Well, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.

      However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven’t actually written any code in the 70’s and 80’s, but what I’ve heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.

      Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.