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A couple of screenshots would've been useful for the post-millennial generations that never got to see the "beauty" (cough) of XP.
A couple of screenshots would've been useful for the post-millennial generations that never got to see the "beauty" (cough) of XP.
XP is Microsoft's prettiest OS by far.
To me Windows 95/NT 4 is still the gold standard in Windows UI. It's certainly not the prettiest, that would be Windows 2000, but it was easy to use, easy to navigate and efficient with space.
Some say the Admin account defaulted to a chessboard. I think it's true, but not sure if I'm just falling victim to false memories... help?
Some say the Admin account defaulted to a chessboard. I think it's true, but not sure if I'm just falling victim to false memories... help?
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XP is Microsoft's prettiest OS by far.
That's a matter of taste, but for many it was the Windows they used first and/or spend the most time on and there's a lot of love for that reason alone. I never used XP all that much, but I always changed the theme to the Windows 2000 look. I really didn't like the default, it looked unprofessional and clunky in my eyes. Upon release XP was also pretty universally mocked as a Fisher Price-like UI. To me Windows 95/NT…
Some say the Admin account defaulted to a chessboard. I think it's true, but not sure if I'm just falling victim to false memories... help?
Some say the Admin account defaulted to a chessboard. I think it's true, but not sure if I'm just falling victim to false memories... help?
If someone only gave me 2 minutes for this, because they think it is very simple (as always), I'd have done a count of files of a specific pattern in the directory and then picked a random index, very naive and quick and dirty programming, no sampling at all, just to avoid discussions why it takes so long with people who don't want to hear it.
This reminds me of when I did a lot of C#, Java, JS, Python in my life, filling maps of strings and objects until I started with zig and noticed how expensive and complicated strings and data structure allocations can be. It kind of blew my mind how much memory and computation we waste when we try to get stuff done as fast as possible because of budget/time constraints.