IBM 486 from 98 running windows 95 on 16mb of SDRAM and a PATA 250mb HDD:
>Click on notepad shortcut
>Notepad opens immediately

Latest 5800X3D running windows 10 running on 64gb of DDR5 in quad channel and an M.2 NVMe raid array of 2TB
>Click on notepad shortcut
>Noticeable delay before notepad opens


This issue is going to get worse as tech schools pump out more people like you and if you're sitting there thinking "Oh man that's not important, that doesn't matter" then you're already fucked.