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Win2K to this day remains my favorite Windows release. It was just so clean and practical. It had its frustrations (setting up a Win2K/WinXP/Win7 system from sc

Win2K to this day remains my favorite Windows release. It was just so clean and practical. It had its frustrations (setting up a Win2K/WinXP/Win7 system from scratch was always a task and a half, with all the driver installs and updates involved) but once you got it set up it was great. XP/7 aren’t bad but they definitely felt more gimmicky.

romed 8y ago
I’m still carrying a Win2K Pro image around in VMware. It runs all the windows software I need (and this is the right way to choose an operating system IMO) and if it gets screwed up I can always blow it away and revert to the snapshot that’s got all the service packs installed.
- kitsunesoba 8y ago
  What software would that be, if you don’t mind my asking? I was under the impression that Win2K support had been dropped from most software several years ago.
  - romed 8y ago
    EDA and CAD programs. Expensive software but I don’t need the vendors’ “support” so their thoughts on my operating systems are not important to me.
basch 8y ago
https://www.deviantart.com/kizo2703/art/Windows-classic-theme-for-Windows-8-RTM-8-1-10-325642288 https://www.deviantart.com/kizo2703/art/Windows-classic-them...
ben_bai 8y ago
Of all the Windows version Win2k still has a special place in my head. Way better/stabler than Win95/Win98. For a long time my goto OS, I finally considered switching to XP SP2 but then Linux entered my world.
hyperman1 8y ago
GUI-wise I agree completely. I remember how both windows 3.0 and windows95 were a huge leap forward in usability. Win2k combined this with the NT kernel. The main piece missing was decent DirectX, which came in XP. But there is another important change after win2k: The attitude Microsoft has to its users. Windows XP was the first windows where actively user hostile technologies like DRM were introduced.

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Win2K to this day remains my favorite Windows release. It was just so clean and practical. It had its frustrations (setting up a Win2K/WinXP/Win7 system from sc

by kitsunesoba 8y ago

romed 8y ago
I’m still carrying a Win2K Pro image around in VMware. It runs all the windows software I need (and this is the right way to choose an operating system IMO) and if it gets screwed up I can always blow it away and revert to the snapshot that’s got all the service packs installed.
- kitsunesoba 8y ago
  What software would that be, if you don’t mind my asking? I was under the impression that Win2K support had been dropped from most software several years ago.
  - romed 8y ago
    EDA and CAD programs. Expensive software but I don’t need the vendors’ “support” so their thoughts on my operating systems are not important to me.
basch 8y ago
https://www.deviantart.com/kizo2703/art/Windows-classic-theme-for-Windows-8-RTM-8-1-10-325642288 https://www.deviantart.com/kizo2703/art/Windows-classic-them...
ben_bai 8y ago
Of all the Windows version Win2k still has a special place in my head. Way better/stabler than Win95/Win98. For a long time my goto OS, I finally considered switching to XP SP2 but then Linux entered my world.
hyperman1 8y ago
GUI-wise I agree completely. I remember how both windows 3.0 and windows95 were a huge leap forward in usability. Win2k combined this with the NT kernel. The main piece missing was decent DirectX, which came in XP. But there is another important change after win2k: The attitude Microsoft has to its users. Windows XP was the first windows where actively user hostile technologies like DRM were introduced.