Comment on MSYS2 and the No-Fuss Way to Get More GNU Into Your Windows by Greg A

In reply to Bernie M.

every time i sit down to windows, i think i am wrong to expect it to be so slow. after all, i've barely used windows in 25 years. surely, my expectations are based in the 1990s, and in all the intervening years, windows is fast now.

but it isn't. it never is. it has been 3 years since the last time i used windows, but 3 years ago it was still slow, specifically slow to load word.

i'm not saying anyone's lying when they say they have seen word load in "only" 2 seconds. but i haven't. i still haven't. in windows, the true scotsman is unfortunately the fleet-deployed computer with institutional security policy and whatever age of hardware with whatever age of updates, and that's just what windows is for most of us. and it's dog slow. still.