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"Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart an
by rsync 11y ago
"Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why we were advised that we should save our work often because the whole thing was so damn unreliable."
This is all true, but those are problems with the OS, not the UI. The OS was terrible. The UI (NT4/XP/w2k) was pretty decent.
- asveikau 11y agoYou're quoting a criticism of Win98, then saying that "the OS" (nt/2k/xp) was the bad part. I don't think it's fair to lump in NT with 9x in that way. The criticisms of Windows 98 and the criticisms of NT are going to have a lot in the former category that isn't in the latter. I feel like these days Windows has the opposite problem as you describe. The kernel is OK but explorer.exe sucks at copying directories.