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The Windows XP start menu sucked, no search function and it was common to have 3 columns full of shortcuts with folders inside folders. It only got better with Windows Vista.
Win 11 has no (decent) search function
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It is still nice to use old versions of Office. I think 2003 was my favorite. Simple, usable, no usage-based UI, no pop-ups like "look at this new feature we silently installed!" while you're trying to write.
On a whim a few years ago I wrote an engineering proposal on my Pentium MMX using Word 2003. It opened within 2 seconds via the aging hard disk. Today even LibreOffice feels a bit overwrought. I've found AbiWord delightful recently - it's the WordPad analog of LibreOffice.
If you want the real thing: https://lrusso.github.io/VirtualXP/VirtualXP.htm (takes less memory than Miro, at least in Firefox :D)
Ouch.
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A huge percentage of XP drivers worked just fine in w2k - sometimes you had to edit the ini or inf file or whatever it was.
They often just shipped the same driver for both.
Check out SmolXP [1]. The one I setup had a 340MB qcow2 image, took about ~10 sec to boot to desktop with qemu, and used only 58MB ram idling on desktop. https://github.com/AFellowSpeedrunner/SmolXP
What do you use it for?
It's amusing thinking if I rigged up an electron app for a mixer it would take up more memory than the entire disk+ram.