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I say this as somebody who really enjoyed W2K, but the complaints about WinXP's default theme are very difficult to understand when: - The classic theme was ju

I say this as somebody who really enjoyed W2K, but the complaints about WinXP's default theme are very difficult to understand when: - The classic theme was just a few clicks away - Of all the problems with XP, I would not even list the "easily changed default theme" in the top.... 100 or so. I would not expect to see such sentiment on HN, of all places.

virtue3 6y ago
Hey man, let people complain about what color the bike shed was painted. XP was a pretty damn good OS that came out of a time when there wasn't a lot of options. It was pretty stable. You could change network settings without restarting. It was built on the NT core instead of whatever 95/98/ME hot mess was. The main issue was it's exposure to viruses. Which was address in 8+ (windows actually started acting more like linux with regards to user/admin). Windows7 IMHO had the best ui out of the box. 10 grew on me. Let's just not talk about 8.
- hnlmorg 6y ago
  > XP was a pretty damn good OS that came out of a time when there wasn't a lot of options. That's more true of Windows 2000 though. By the time XP was released Apple had released a few iterations of OS X and it was looking pretty decent. Not to mention desktop Linux becoming stable. Neither of which were true in 2000. In fact with Windows 2000, I used to dual boot Win 95, Linux Slackware and BeOS 5 but I always came back to Windows 2k for day to day work. Then when Windows XP was released I gave it a try and got so fed up with it that rather than installing Win2k again I just switched to Linux full time instead (sadly BeOS had ceased development by that point).
Piskvorrr 6y ago
The look was superficial, sure: For someone moving from Win2K to XP, this was not the main frustration, but a easily recognizable sign for the myriad other issues (note: original XP, XPsp2 was the release that should have been). (We did some printing. In the range of 1M pages/workstation. It...worked...on XP. Eventually.)

virtue3 6y ago

Hey man, let people complain about what color the bike shed was painted. XP was a pretty damn good OS that came out of a time when there wasn't a lot of options. It was pretty stable. You could change network settings without restarting. It was built on the NT core instead of whatever 95/98/ME hot mess was. The main issue was it's exposure to viruses. Which was address in 8+ (windows actually started acting more like linux with regards to user/admin). Windows7 IMHO had the best ui out of the box. 10 grew on me. Let's just not talk about 8.

hnlmorg 6y ago
> XP was a pretty damn good OS that came out of a time when there wasn't a lot of options. That's more true of Windows 2000 though. By the time XP was released Apple had released a few iterations of OS X and it was looking pretty decent. Not to mention desktop Linux becoming stable. Neither of which were true in 2000. In fact with Windows 2000, I used to dual boot Win 95, Linux Slackware and BeOS 5 but I always came back to Windows 2k for day to day work. Then when Windows XP was released I gave it a try and got so fed up with it that rather than installing Win2k again I just switched to Linux full time instead (sadly BeOS had ceased development by that point).

Piskvorrr 6y ago

The look was superficial, sure: For someone moving from Win2K to XP, this was not the main frustration, but a easily recognizable sign for the myriad other issues (note: original XP, XPsp2 was the release that should have been). (We did some printing. In the range of 1M pages/workstation. It...worked...on XP. Eventually.)