@skylar >a computer from 2009 with absolute top of the line components, hell even a dual or quad socket server, would be dogshit slow at the bare minimum task of opening a web browser.
Meds now.
My thinkpad from 2008, which is mobile hardware designed for power usage over performance has no problem opening Tor Browser, which is firefox that is patched a bit.

It performs acceptably for browsing the web.

Even if I were to start executing proprietary malware JavaScript, that would still work.

You seem to have attached images of a non-real world bechmark that means nothing.

>it's not just microsoft working hard to undo all the hardware performance gains, but literally everyone who writes software.
GNU software works great on my machines.