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Yes, most startling was Intel iGPU drivers not installing, as well as AMD GPU drivers not installing for non-enterprise cards. Then people have mentioned wireless and bluetooth typically being nonfunctional. Your touchpad may not work if it is I2C or if the PS2 bridge is USB. You may also be unable to get computer peripherals to work if they are not designed to be driverless. I suspect power management is also poor.
> most startling was Intel iGPU drivers not installing On which version? I'm running Server 2016 (Datacenter) with an Intel iGPU, and I don't recall having to do anything special to get it working.
win2k pro
winamp 2.92 (and all its glorious plugins. still use it today!!!)
jasc paint shop pro 7
jcreator ide
ati TV wonder
firewire ethernet
that network activity icon
amd k-6 processor
384MB ram
a consistent UI
powertoys
gpedit tweaks
ms-word (and yes I rather enjoyed clipit)
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I am a little older than you and was writing c++ for windows 2000. One of the funnest things i did was write something called an MS-GINA driver. It let you completely replace that login screen with your own login screen. Think of the possibilities: write your own login screen that looks just like the original, but sends credentials to my remote server. But if you had any bugs in your driver, BSOD all the way and ther…
That link 404s for me.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/gina
You can also google “MS GINA windows”
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Way back in the day I played Max Payne on a Win2k server and it worked great. Couldn't make the OS crash even if I tried. Best MS OS ever.
Better than Windows ME?!
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Careful with your claims. What is the supply chain of that win2k iso? You could be compromised before you even begin. Just because it is past EOL doesn’t mean you chuck all security best practices out the window. “Oh well it’s end of life, might as well store passwords in plaintext” Microsoft still owns copyright on Win2k, so you could be met with a cease and desist or you could be liable for infringement.
If you connect windows 2000 to the internet, you're probably owned within a few minutes regardless. Similarly for xp pre-sp2.
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the docker system including all the bells and whistles. But indeed I could've just said linux is playing catch-up in this area too...
To be absolutely fair, the first adequate namespaces implementation came out in kernel version 3.8, so that puts us in 2013, when talking capabilities to run %process% in a "container". Admittedly, a few years later than illumos. But then again, illumos was just playing catch-up with *BSD back then, as jails were available since 2000 ;) By the way, what is your primary motivation for using illumos? genuinely curious.
I run illumos and *BSD (FreeBSD servers, OpenBSD on SPARC and network appliances) in production mostly because they just work(tm). They are battle tested pieces of wonderful software engineering with great documentation and community support (ymmv) out of the box. SmartOS has replaced most of our linux and vmware based hypervisors at $work and they are just so much nicer to administer in the simplicity and design compared to the others. In addition we have a Triton cluster as our primary on-prem cloud service.
tl;dr They have proven to be a lot nicer to run as well as more dependable than the alternatives.
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I preferred XP with the classic theme, some of its utils were improved.
Which utils? I think XP introduced the “switch user” option. But I couldn’t find much in XP to justify the additional drain on memory and CPU. However I might not have needed the same utils you came to prefer (Every user is different).
The firewall appeared in SP2 right? Couldn't do without that today. And easy to set the GUI to classic mode.
Fortunately we had a corporate VLK copy so never had to worry about activation.
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To be absolutely fair, the first adequate namespaces implementation came out in kernel version 3.8, so that puts us in 2013, when talking capabilities to run %process% in a "container". Admittedly, a few years later than illumos. But then again, illumos was just playing catch-up with *BSD back then, as jails were available since 2000 ;) By the way, what is your primary motivation for using illumos? genuinely curious.
Well if we go to that, illumos, or rather Solaris had zones even earlier in 2004 or so. I run illumos and *BSD (FreeBSD servers, OpenBSD on SPARC and network appliances) in production mostly because they just work(tm). They are battle tested pieces of wonderful software engineering with great documentation and community support (ymmv) out of the box. SmartOS has replaced most of our linux and vmware based hypervisors…
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I've also used Server 2019 on a desktop and it's pretty solid. A couple of pointers: - If you're considered a "student" by any means, you probably have access to an institutional email address that gives you access to Azure for Students. Through the Azure site, you can download an ISO for any LTSC edition of Windows Server (including Datacenter) and get a valid license key. This is a great way of saving money and avo…
Driver support isn't a given. There's lots of normal hardware which may never be server qualified. You can make a desktop that will run server fine, but it's kind of a Linux situation; you can't pick random parts and assume they'll work.