I watched the video but for me still too many slow UI animations.
Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
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Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#22Microsoft actually makes the version of Windows that people want, but it’s called LTSC and they really don’t want you to have it.
No bloat, no ads, no forced or feature updates, optional security patches only, virtually nothing installed by default, and minimal telemetry.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#23Ya know, I've never had a Linux box that had any of the problems listed about modern windows. Also all the advantages listed about Windows XP are also present in Linux... But I've never paid Microsoft for an OS that showed me ads against my will in my Start Menu, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
Good quality Nvidia drivers and support for games, mostly.
I've been running Linux on my work laptop for 6 years now and Nvidia drives are pretty good.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#24Ya know, I've never had a Linux box that had any of the problems listed about modern windows. Also all the advantages listed about Windows XP are also present in Linux... But I've never paid Microsoft for an OS that showed me ads against my will in my Start Menu, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
Good quality Nvidia drivers and support for games, mostly.
This problem with Linux is pretty much gone and has been for a couple years now.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#25Did I love Windows XP? Yes. But to me, it always looked like it was designed by Fisher Price.
On the other hand, Windows 98 looked like it was designed by 1955 IBM. It may have been an overcorrection but it was certainly a welcome one.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#26Still not a fan of the Windows XP bubble-gum theme and overcrowded start menu, but definitely a move in the right direction (back towards the peak Windows version Win2k).
Agreed. First thing I always did was enable classic theme.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#27I personally love the blended style and I think the goals of what this going for is awesome. Let’s bloat, more focus on core computing features. But I suspect if I were to run XP, I would miss some of those bloat style features. Automatic updates for apps in the background, cloud file providers, better window management tools, etc.
I’m not longer at Microsoft and I am still a bit worried about the future of windows. I was hoping panos would be able to drive things in a more elegant and streamlined direction (to his credit, it does look better imho and many of the rougher visual edges have been filed off in 11, though some still do exist). But he has left the company and Yusuf is taking over.
Obvious standard opinion is my own boilerplate.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#28Ya know, I've never had a Linux box that had any of the problems listed about modern windows. Also all the advantages listed about Windows XP are also present in Linux... But I've never paid Microsoft for an OS that showed me ads against my will in my Start Menu, so maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
Good quality Nvidia drivers and support for games, mostly.
This is mostly a non-issue now - I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3, Dota 2, Warcraft III and everything else on Ubuntu 22.04 now thanks to Steam and Proton. Performance is awesome.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#29Windows 10 LTSC if you want something modern. Everything is removed, no preinstalled apps. Just the OS.
Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
#30One of the biggest challenges modern OS developers face (Apple and Microsoft namely) is how to make the new version of the OS appealing enough for users to move to. There are carrots like a fancy new feature, or sticks like “we’re not supporting this anymore, so if you want your computer to be secure you need to upgrade.” A lot of people don’t care about the carrots though. Their computer does everything they need it…
>need to pay the bills for all the security work that will always need to be done
This is in no way the business incentive of a major OS, and you've painted an extraordiarily rosy picture of OS development.