Prank Windows XP simulator

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Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by johnwalkr » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 8:41 AM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #41

dm319 wrote: post #14

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Darn I wish I'd come across Linux before. I was starting university and my Amiga A1200 was just too incompatible with everything. I spent ages weighing up a powerbook with the shiny new OSX or a Thinkpad T40 with XP. In the end I was most impressed with the reliability of the ThinkPad, but those years spent fighting XP when I could have been using Linux - I regret! When I discovered Ubuntu 9.04, I felt like my love o…

Linux and OSX weren't that great in the early years. And XP was one of the best Windows, minus a few glaring holes. Some of which could be patched over with third-party apps and some completely missing, like a modern terminal. Bottom line, XP was about the best there was just after the turn of the century, assuming you were safe behind a NAT and smart enough to use the new Firefox rather than IE in the coming years.

In the early days linux was great as a hobby if you liked tweaking things and learning (and also as a server) but Windows XP really was the best desktop at the time.

It might be a fun day to fire up Windows XP in a VM and see how well it can do with a modern browser and 4K screen.

Re: Prank Windows XP simulator

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Post by dm319 » Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

MarkusWandel wrote: post #55

dm319 wrote: post #51

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Yes, and that was my assessment at the time. XP wasn't bad, but it got so bloated with, I think, SP2. I got frustrated that things would go wrong with it, and I could never find a definitive explanation online to fix it. There were usually webpages with 10 random things you could try in an attempt to resolve it, and weirdly I discovered that same community was still present for Win10. For years using XP I felt I neve…

A complex Linux setup - I run a 3-seat multiuser setup on a massive old gaming box that uses too much power constantly to be worth running otherwise - can certainly deliver bang-your-head-against-the-wall frustration. Such as when the binary Brother scanner driver installs without any missing dependencies, and only much googling finds that you need to install some 32 bit libraries that it doesn't mention not being ab…

Yes, I don't know whether it was the Windows community or the unhelpful error messages that resulted in the "10 ways you can try to fix x, but probably fail". For me it was an early update that was causing hanging on Win10 machines at a random time point 1-10 minutes after booting. Was a nightmare to troubleshoot.

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