Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems
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Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems
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#2I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
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#4I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
I think it's a grossly underrated OS.
As good as Windows XP but without the awful garish themes - it had all that made the Windows 98 GIU great but with the stability of Windows NT.
Also, I don't think you needed to activate it and it didn't have much in the way of telemetry. We'll never have a Windows version as great again.
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#5I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
I was happy with it before I got pwned by Nimda. I think it was the only time I got infected by a virus (at least knowingly) in my entire life. I did work supporting 2k servers and workstations in my first jobs but I was already a Linuxhead by then.
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#6I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
I think it's a grossly underrated OS. As good as Windows XP but without the awful garish themes - it had all that made the Windows 98 GIU great but with the stability of Windows NT. Also, I don't think you needed to activate it and it didn't have much in the way of telemetry. We'll never have a Windows version as great again.
My only computer for a long time was old thinkpad, so I actually ended up skipping over windows XP entirely.
I finally moved on after the first service pack for vista came out (in 2008), which was surprisingly alright in my experience. It ended up being more stable than win2000.
The biggest problem with the older windows is that poorly written drivers (which is most of them) had a tendency to bluescreen the entire system when they fucked up. Newer windows is so much more resistant to that now.
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#7I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
Windows 7 was also pretty decent, and managed to somewhat redeem the horror that was Vista.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's a grossly underrated OS. As good as Windows XP but without the awful garish themes - it had all that made the Windows 98 GIU great but with the stability of Windows NT. Also, I don't think you needed to activate it and it didn't have much in the way of telemetry. We'll never have a Windows version as great again.
My only computer for a long time was old thinkpad, so I actually ended up skipping over windows XP entirely. I finally moved on after the first service pack for vista came out (in 2008), which was surprisingly alright in my experience. It ended up being more stable than win2000. The biggest problem with the older windows is that poorly written drivers (which is most of them) had a tendency to bluescreen the entire sy…
> [Vista] was surprisingly alright in my experience
I never understood the hate for Vista. People were overly complacent and wanted a OS that ran on 128MB of ram like XP did. Vista was not that. When 7 came along, it was pretty much the same core, except now many computers were already Vista-capable.
I was using the Vista Beta of my 2GB-RAM computer for 6 months before release and it was vastly better than XP.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
My only computer for a long time was old thinkpad, so I actually ended up skipping over windows XP entirely. I finally moved on after the first service pack for vista came out (in 2008), which was surprisingly alright in my experience. It ended up being more stable than win2000. The biggest problem with the older windows is that poorly written drivers (which is most of them) had a tendency to bluescreen the entire sy…
> [Vista] was surprisingly alright in my experience I never understood the hate for Vista. People were overly complacent and wanted a OS that ran on 128MB of ram like XP did. Vista was not that. When 7 came along, it was pretty much the same core, except now many computers were already Vista-capable. I was using the Vista Beta of my 2GB-RAM computer for 6 months before release and it was vastly better than XP.
The hate came from it being pre installed on massively underpowered computers. The majority of users came to vista with a new PC and it just ruined the experience.
I still remember trying to troubleshoot a minor issue and it took half a day just because of the performance on this new PC.
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#10I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.
I think it's a grossly underrated OS. As good as Windows XP but without the awful garish themes - it had all that made the Windows 98 GIU great but with the stability of Windows NT. Also, I don't think you needed to activate it and it didn't have much in the way of telemetry. We'll never have a Windows version as great again.
XP had much better compatibility with Windows 95/98 software than 2000, especially games, as far as I remember.