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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 carlosjobim »

Since this just about GUI appearance, I'd like to mention one of the most beautiful and practical GUI themes for Windows 7, and in my opinion one of the best kept secrets for more than a decade, Shine 2.0:

https://www.deviantart.com/zainadeel/art/Shine-2-0-for-Windo...

It's been many years since I used anything Windows, but it was always one of the first things I configured with any new install. Looking at the screenshots now, it hasn't aged a bit since it was published in 2010. And the other concepts and themes that guy published around the same time still look fresh. Imagine if Microsoft had discovered him and put him in charge of style!

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

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Post by brnt »

fellowniusmonk wrote: post #209
dagmx wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 2000 wasn’t the version before Windows XP for most people though. It was Windows ME. Most people would not have experienced 2000. Windows 2000 was the last of the separate business targeted operating systems. Therefore I’d argue the nostalgia isn’t misplaced because most people under 45 just couldn’t have the nostalgia for 2000 to begin with. XP unified the two lines into one OS with multiple SKUs instead of…

I was 15 doing local tech support and network admin for small businesses. Windows ME was a pile of memory leaking trash, constant BSODs, reboots multiple times a day, it was an unbelievably hostile OS with piss poor performance. 98se was so much better than ME it's a joke. 2000 was what I ran personally until XP stopped sucking (which if memory serves was with service pack 2.) Being from that era of IE 5.5 and 6 I st…

As I recall, W2K also got very usable on desktops with SP4 (I recall Sound blaster, game support issues in W2K).

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

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Post by morsch »

bambax wrote: post #228

> ... and when the Windows search function was a useful feature I have used Windows since 3.0 (before 3.1) and have never seen a useful search function in any version of Windows. Where was it all this time?

Windows 9x had a decent file search function. It was slow, but reliable. It even included full text search, though I'm not sure how well that worked, I don't think I ever had the patience to use it. I wish modern Gnome had something just like it. I usually use the shell, instead.

Here's an overly nitpicky but very in-depth description: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/find95.htm

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

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Post by bongodongobob »

nickjj wrote: post #202
bongodongobob wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm coming off of an entire weekend spent trying to get acceptable latency for audio recording in Linux. Just a midi controller to play a simple 3x oscillator VST with better than 250ms latency was my test case. I tried different versions of Ubuntu, Debian, different kernels, different window managers, different graphics drivers, stripping things out of the system etc. After going down the rabbit hole, I finally ripp…

Did you happen to try Arch? I only ask because I too had audio issues with Ubuntu LTS and Debian (both stable and unstable in hopes to get newer packages) in the past. I never got past the problems I had so I reverted back to Windows but if I go down that rabbit hole again I'd likely try Arch just to see what happens.

I did years ago over a weekend and had a laptop running it for a while. Something went wrong and I ended up breaking it. Just way more familiar with Debian and friends.

In that vein, I ended up looking into Linux from scratch this weekend. I'd love to have a laptop that runs reaper and that's it.

Someday, but for now, a minimal Ubuntu install is doing the trick for what I need.

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

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Post by brnt »

dagmx wrote: post #200
mrweasel wrote: post #188

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> Windows 2000 wasn’t the version before Windows XP for most people though. That's probably a fair observation. Windows 2000 came out before Windows ME, so it you had just a slight interest in computers, you'd try it out and after that Windows 98 and even ME felt like a downgrade, so you'd stay on 2000. I remember getting an beta release of Windows 2000 in late December 1999 and that was basically it, every other ver…

Yeah though that was also the period before wide spread internet use, and when operating systems cost significant money to upgrade to . 2000 was $319, or over $500 today. That’s more than the cost of a full console or even some PCs. So you’d REALLY have to be into the OS scene to look it up, or care enough to buy it.

Sneakernet and your local friendly CD burner owner with a huge catalog were readily available here in NL. Internet made it a little easier, sure, but not much. At least for software.

No, for music Napster was really what showed what the internet could offer but CD burners couldn't.

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

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Post by haunter »

neurostimulant wrote: post #219
haunter wrote: post #44

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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

FYI, anyone can upload anything to archive.org. Downloading the ISO from archive.org doesn't means the ISO is free from malware so please exercise caution just as you do when downloading ISOs off a torrent site.

Yeah true indeed. At least the hash values are publicly available so you can double check that it's indeed the correct file you have downloaded.

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

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Post by rkagerer »

dijit wrote: post #40
transcriptase wrote: post #22

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. No bloat, no ads, no forced or feature updates, optional security patches only, virtually nothing installed by default, and minimal telemetry.

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/…

My god how I would happily pay 5X per copy for a Windows that had all the shitty new garbage culled out (like ALL the Telemetry and forced updates).

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

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Post by bongodongobob »

dijit wrote: post #185
bongodongobob wrote: post #183

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What time period? That must be pre Windows 7? Or do you mean like a pre activated or volume licensed version? I'm not sure what you mean by official ISO. As far as I'm aware, since 7, you could just download it. Licensing was obviously as separate issue though.

was the Windows 7 nearly 8 era. Was running 2012R2 on the server, there were copies available online of the evaluation edition if you submitted your details, but they wouldn't join a KMS server unless you manually intervened to change the “edition” from evaluation - Joining the domain didnt fix it. 2014-2018 for that directx + download anecdote

I mean, 2014 was 10 years ago and 2012 just EoL'd. I agree that era wasn't as easy. But Windows 10 (other than Home) in its maturity, is and has been pretty rock solid, imo. Windows Server is a different topic entirely.

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

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Post by anticensor »

toyg wrote: post #229
diggan wrote: post #75

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Last time I checked, you cannot purchase it as an individual, has to be as a business. And you cannot just purchase one license.

This is so stupid. Why leave money on the table? Do they really make more in ads per install than $110...? I doubt it.

Cash can only be spent once. Information can be spent repeatedly.
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