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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

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Post by hypercube33 »

tiffanyh wrote: post #19
swells34 wrote: post #4

Ya 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.

> "all the advantages listed about Windows XP are also present in Linux" You mean, are present in Linux TODAY . Installing Linux 22-years ago, when XP shipped, was hugely painful and only the most technical would attempt it. Windows XP marked the begin of an era when corporations replaced analog processes with digital. It sounds so foreign now, but in the late 90s - it was still common for corporations to send printe…

To be real you're right no one attempted it but it wasn't that hard to get working 20 years ago...to keep it working was the painful part

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by louthy »

Almondsetat wrote: post #98
louthy wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Believe what you like. I’m trying make a serious point.

Making a serious point and witholding important information is an oxymoron

Have you thought of joining a Linux support forum from the 90s? You'd fit in really well.

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by hutzlibu »

blablablerg wrote: post #109
hutzlibu wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So ... all the windows games now run on Linux? That would be news to me. And I was just recently messing with drivers, kernels etc to get a working result, but in the end I still could not play the (officially supported) game on Linux that I wanted (opposed to just works on windows), so good for you that your problems went away, but please note, that other people might have had other experiences.

Not all, kernel level anticheat with the big multiplayer games is a problem these days (areweanticheatyet.com), but other than that, most titles work.

Yes and this is awesome, but the comment I replied to, seemed to imply that all the problems went away since years and this is just wrong in my experience and can create wrong expectations for people trying out Linux again - just to get disappointed.

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by darknavi »

nicetryguy wrote: post #13

> There is no Cortana, no AI Co-Pilot, or an extreme amount of unwanted, pre-installed software. Ok XP came with tons of crap and bloatware from most manufacturers of the time, let's not rewrite history here! Of course, you could just do a fresh install or actually delete the programs you didn't want, looking at you Edge....

Oh I love McAfee preinstalled for me! /s

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by hypercube33 »

ponorin wrote: post #111
louthy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Installing Linux 22-years ago, when XP shipped, was hugely painful and only the most technical would attempt it. That’s still the case with Linux now. I did two recent Linux installs (different distros) and it’s still a nightmare of finding drivers, scripts, etc. to get everything setup. On one of my devices it still doesn’t recognise all the USB ports attached to the motherboard (but does recognise some), I just g…

I've tried installing Windows 10 to my old ("old" as in Ryzen 2000 series) HP laptop so that I can give it out, and it took forever to install all the updates. Windows Update sucks even when you give permission to do whatever it wants; super slow, doesn't know what to prioritise, and unable to just jump to the newest release. And even then it missed some drivers, especially the fingerprint sensor, so to this day Wind…

That's not exactly fair. hp flops on its face with the software realm (drivers, firmware) and deploying windows to any is a nightmare of missing drivers.

The surface is more constrained to specific hardware so I think any operating system would be easy to kick to it much like a Thinkpad.

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

haunter wrote: post #44
dijit wrote: post #40

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With the risk of linking to 4chan; there is a /g/ guide to how to navigate Windows and it recommends exactly this.[0] However: I do not publicly endorse software piracy, and so do not recommend using this guide; legitimate LTSC licenses are only possible to come by for Businesses with a minimum spend of 5 licenses.[1] :( [0]: https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98121318 [1]: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…

It's literally on archive.org, just download the ISO and you can activate it with MAS MS doesn't care about piracy at all. They'd rather let you pirate it than losing you by switching to Linux or Mac

Exactly. They don’t make (as much) money off of individuals buying licenses, the real dough is in bulk business licensing. And businesses want to do that in part because of the unparalleled software accessibility. The more people that use Windows, pirated or not, the more demand there is for Windows software, which locks enterprise customers in.

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

exabrial wrote: post #127

I don't understand why people like XP so much. Windows 2000 was the ultimate OS: lean, fast, focused, and absolutely zero crapware installed. No stupid internet accounts needed to run your local OS and it did what it was supposed to do.

2000 was also the last version that didn't require activation.

Re: Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS

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Post by calamari4065 »

nicetryguy wrote: post #13

> There is no Cortana, no AI Co-Pilot, or an extreme amount of unwanted, pre-installed software. Ok XP came with tons of crap and bloatware from most manufacturers of the time, let's not rewrite history here! Of course, you could just do a fresh install or actually delete the programs you didn't want, looking at you Edge....

Let's not rewrite history here, OEMs shipped a ton of preinstalled bloatware. If you got an image of XP from Microsoft, it was totally clean.

Contrary to today when Microsoft bundles bloatware directly with the OS itself. You can't install a clean copy because a clean copy just doesn't exist.

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