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And if WinXP had support for DX11 and more than 4GB of RAM, I'd gladly stay on it. Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake.

squarefoot 7y ago
"Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake." Probably new training contracts are a good incentive to change things every now and then. Win8 and beyond UIs is the best possible example of a bullet meeting a foot: for the first time I found actually easy to convert some non tech people to use Linux, which in the XP era was at least for common users next to impossible. Messing up the UI wasn't an error, they planned it, but in the end the change was so radical that it could bite them in the butt one day.
HenryBemis 7y ago
You and Steve Gibson! (and me, and anyone who doesn't like the crap MS is trying to pull with the constant spying).
anto64do 7y ago
> and more than 4GB of RAM https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10547 https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10547
- zamadatix 7y ago
  PAE is a bit limited, they actually released an x86 64 bit version of XP that worked with more RAM properly and out of the box.
zamadatix 7y ago
And improved filesystem support and an improved CPU scheduler and a redesigned security model and a new network stack and an accelerated compositor for larger/faster displays to work and DPI awareness and proper support for SSDs and UEFI boot and... Point being by the time you actually make XP into something modern it turns into the thing you think you hate.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
  He probably meant the interface. If it was Windows XP with the same interface and the same functionality, but with those added low-level features you mentioned, it would be a great hit of an OS today.
  - pcdoodle 7y ago
    remember when search actually worked? Miss that dog...
UIZealot 7y ago
> Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake. Well said. I prefer Windows 2000 myself, but other than that, couldn't agree more.

squarefoot 7y ago

"Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake." Probably new training contracts are a good incentive to change things every now and then. Win8 and beyond UIs is the best possible example of a bullet meeting a foot: for the first time I found actually easy to convert some non tech people to use Linux, which in the XP era was at least for common users next to impossible. Messing up the UI wasn't an error, they planned it, but in the end the change was so radical that it could bite them in the butt one day.

HenryBemis 7y ago

You and Steve Gibson! (and me, and anyone who doesn't like the crap MS is trying to pull with the constant spying).

anto64do 7y ago

> and more than 4GB of RAM https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10547 https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10547

zamadatix 7y ago
PAE is a bit limited, they actually released an x86 64 bit version of XP that worked with more RAM properly and out of the box.

zamadatix 7y ago

And improved filesystem support and an improved CPU scheduler and a redesigned security model and a new network stack and an accelerated compositor for larger/faster displays to work and DPI awareness and proper support for SSDs and UEFI boot and... Point being by the time you actually make XP into something modern it turns into the thing you think you hate.

Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
He probably meant the interface. If it was Windows XP with the same interface and the same functionality, but with those added low-level features you mentioned, it would be a great hit of an OS today.
- pcdoodle 7y ago
  remember when search actually worked? Miss that dog...

UIZealot 7y ago

> Software shouldn't be developed for development's sake. Well said. I prefer Windows 2000 myself, but other than that, couldn't agree more.