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

Post by AnthonyMouse » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 8:25 PM UTC

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I dunno, installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever. Pre-installed Linux laptops is great - and is clearly the way to get someone less techy on-the-way . But, for most, if they're sick of Windows and they want to move (dual boot their machine) then god help them. Linux is much better than it was, for…

> installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever. Did it... get a lot better recently? Last time I installed Windows on a laptop I had "fun" getting it the drivers so it could use the Wi-Fi card so it could pull the rest of itself down.

Post by mewpmewp2 » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 8:28 PM UTC

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> Microsoft actually makes the version of Windows that people want, but it’s called LTSC and they really don’t want you to have it. Of the devices that still run Windows in our home, all but one of them run some version of LTSC. > No bloat, no ads, no forced updates, virtually nothing installed by default, and minimal telemetry. No Store, no Cortana, no Edge. What's not to like? ;)

Why run Windows at that point? I'm a hybrid person. I run Linux for my work and dev OS and Windows for gaming and day to day shenanigans. If you're just going to strip Windows down to this weird broken minimal thing tho why not just use Linux full time and get a PS5/Xbox for the AAA games you can't run under Linux. I dont really get the point of the effort people go through trying to make Microsoft products something…

Post by mixmastamyk » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 8:29 PM UTC

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why do you need a smtp server developed by microsoft? isn't windows compatible with a multitude of open source smtp servers?

You don’t, but why ship broken features at all? If I can install something from the OS it shouldn’t come broken and insecure. It just feels like such a strange platform to build a server on to me.

Post by EvanAnderson » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 8:31 PM UTC

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.

Post by neurostimulant » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 8:34 PM UTC

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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