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ntakasaki on April 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Artery chokes after 70 copies of Visual Studio”

I think Windows rot stopped being a thing since XP. Windows 7 and Windows 8 installations rarely slow down over time, unless you're installing toobars and adware.

davidgerard on April 25, 2014 [–]

I have a Windows 7 that suffered Windows rot over the year I used it. I finally gave up and went back to the Ubuntu share (despite the Toshiba brightness bug) when Windows refused to suspend properly.

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