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Note that this is from Windows XP era, which nowadays people look with nostalgic glasses as "golden age" of Windows.

speedgoose 4y ago
Oh yes, I remember it as the operating system with a toy style, that struggled to redraw windows under load or even move the mouse cursor. It was a huge difference compared to Mac OS X.
- M95D 4y ago
  Yes, I remeber when a busy system would show a hour-glass mouse cursor to tell you it's busy, instead of just freezing and not reacting to any clicks. I also remember the title bar "this program is not responding". All gone now. It's still better than Linux where keys gets "stuck" repeating and the mouse freezes too.
  - shp0ngle 4y ago
    oh that’s the famous out-of-memory issue that nobody seems to care about and the stock reply is “buy more RAM”
- yread 4y ago
  To be fair linux at that time tended to hard freeze (as in cursor wouldn't move at all in X) if you ran out your disk quota
Nextgrid 4y ago
This just shows how bad the current shit-show has become if we prefer the shit-show from 20 years ago.
- anakaine 4y ago
  The current state is world's better than where it was, well, at least Win10 is. Win11 is still a mystery to me. Unsupported hardware etc.
- fransje26 4y ago
  I like how the use of nostalgic implied that it was better now.. Hahaha.
apexalpha 4y ago
I really don't understand this. I guess it's just nostalgia? When I ran Windows XP it was commonplace to just nuke your entire OS and re-install it every 6 to 9 months because it would just become unworkable otherwise. Then you have the Windows XP update which you had to run 5 times, each with a reboot before you had all updates. The fact you required a paid anti-virus to keep your system somewhat safe. Toolbars. Fucking toolbars everywhere. And let's not forget to rate the forgotten child: Windows XP 64bit. Yeah no for me Windows 10 is so much better than any Windows before. It's the first one I would rate as acceptable.

Oh yes, I remember it as the operating system with a toy style, that struggled to redraw windows under load or even move the mouse cursor. It was a huge difference compared to Mac OS X.

M95D 4y ago
Yes, I remeber when a busy system would show a hour-glass mouse cursor to tell you it's busy, instead of just freezing and not reacting to any clicks. I also remember the title bar "this program is not responding". All gone now. It's still better than Linux where keys gets "stuck" repeating and the mouse freezes too.
- shp0ngle 4y ago
  oh that’s the famous out-of-memory issue that nobody seems to care about and the stock reply is “buy more RAM”
yread 4y ago
To be fair linux at that time tended to hard freeze (as in cursor wouldn't move at all in X) if you ran out your disk quota

Nextgrid 4y ago

This just shows how bad the current shit-show has become if we prefer the shit-show from 20 years ago.

anakaine 4y ago
The current state is world's better than where it was, well, at least Win10 is. Win11 is still a mystery to me. Unsupported hardware etc.
fransje26 4y ago
I like how the use of nostalgic implied that it was better now.. Hahaha.

apexalpha 4y ago

I really don't understand this. I guess it's just nostalgia? When I ran Windows XP it was commonplace to just nuke your entire OS and re-install it every 6 to 9 months because it would just become unworkable otherwise. Then you have the Windows XP update which you had to run 5 times, each with a reboot before you had all updates. The fact you required a paid anti-virus to keep your system somewhat safe. Toolbars. Fucking toolbars everywhere. And let's not forget to rate the forgotten child: Windows XP 64bit. Yeah no for me Windows 10 is so much better than any Windows before. It's the first one I would rate as acceptable.