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Nostalgia is, it seems, a hell of a drug.
In early Windows XP days everybody said it was crap compared to Win2k. XP was the first one with product activation as well. And people called the Luna theme childish. Then Vista came along and people said XP was the good one.
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> proprietary operating systems to be actively working against you Where is this happening ? Are we expecting this now ? What did I miss
yes. most of the things I see about windows vs linux involve "well you can just turn all the spyware stuff off, all you have to do is dive into these 10 menus and flip these switches" "Its easy to disable the ads in the start menu" etc etc. Even if you can turn the stuff off, the fact that you have to feels a lot like the OS working against the user.
The Edge update comes to mind that had reset the browser preference presumably to be able to push edge again.
> Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP? Probably higher -- XP is still popular in China and supported by third party companies there.
https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
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In early Windows XP days everybody said it was crap compared to Win2k. XP was the first one with product activation as well. And people called the Luna theme childish. Then Vista came along and people said XP was the good one.
Then Windows 7 came along and nobody said Vista was the good one.
I'm actually not familiar with the legality of downloading this torrent. Is this considered legal, or is it like stolen goods, where the mere possession is a crime, even lacking evidence of the actual theft? Also, what would be the legality a group of people "maintaining" this code? (developing security patches, etc)
Another interesting question to ask may be: Would downloading/seeding this torrent be considered a worse offence than if it were, say, a movie?
Creator of the torrent posted on reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/iz46du/the_windo...
One can love open-source and still be against license violations. What a warped world view.
> Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP? Probably higher -- XP is still popular in China and supported by third party companies there.
Are these airgapped machines or machines with networking? Internet connection?
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Then Windows 7 came along and nobody said Vista was the good one.
i think the consensus is that windows 95, XP, 7 were the least troublesome versions. I still think 7 > 10
However, it also has a ton of advertisments everywhere, and those annoying auto-installing apps.
My immediate thought is whether researchers or investigative journalists will find cold hard US government backdoors. This is potentially big.
But if you cannot guarantee the correspondence between source and binary releases, such a review only helps a little. Reproducible build is crucial for auditability.