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Ran a fair bit of Windows 95 back in the day, and a bit of 98 before ditching and going all-out Linux. Did weird shit to those systems, had my liberal share of
by interfixus 7y ago
Ran a fair bit of Windows 95 back in the day, and a bit of 98 before ditching and going all-out Linux. Did weird shit to those systems, had my liberal share of blue screens and reboots and facepalms and shouting at my CRT. Also frequent reinstalls because things inevitably grew crufty and polluted beyond repair. But these were planned and deliberate. I never once had a system die on me.
- Spooky23 7y agoYou probably, by luck or design, bought decent gear. The biggest killer of windows systems was drivers and bad hardware. The average punter bought some garbage device at retail and plugged in his software modem, software printer, and god knows what kind of software. Those boxes died. Enterprise software was usually even worse, as companies were uniquely unskilled to produce it.
- ncmncm 7y ago"Crufty and polluted beyond repair"? But still booted? Pro-active maintenance must have intervened before the fatal rot.