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They can't trick me. I know what works. I'm sticking with Windows 98.
by nwah1 4y ago
They can't trick me. I know what works. I'm sticking with Windows 98.
- yamtaddle 4y agoEverything since 7's been a downgrade. And really, if they'd just patched a very small set of 7 features into XP (mostly driver management improvements), I'd prefer that.
- rightbyte 4y agoYou'd probably want AMD64 support too? The XP UI was so much better. Technically I think I remember 7 as working better but I didn't like it as much.
- yamtaddle 4y agoThere was a 64 bit XP but it broke some games and a bunch of drivers were never re-compiled for it, IIRC, so it wasn't very popular.
- piperswe 4y agoI think an XP userland (hardened and with security updates) on the modern NT kernel would be a quite enjoyable experience
- Falkon1313 4y agoI wouldn't touch 8, but I rather like 10, and I'll stick with that until 12. Windows has a long tradition where whenever there's a good version, the next version sucks and vice-versa. Sort of the "tick-flop" model of software releases.
- accrual 4y agoI run Windows 98 on my WIP retro computer. I recently got into the habit of dual booting OpenBSD so I can rsync C:\WINDOWS to another partition, and rsync it back when it inevitably becomes unbootable as I test things out. This was a golden moment for me as I was no longer installing a fresh copy 3x per day. More on-topic: Windows 98 is not only nostalgic but it also represents a past time when we were more in control of our PCs, and understanding them fully was a less daunting task.
- jonathankoren 4y agoI kind of wonder what happens if you put a Windows 3.11 complete with Trumpet WinSock on the unprotected internet these days. I wonder if it’s immune because there’s all the malware has evolved past its exploits. Watch there be some retro computing enthusiast (unintentionally?) running Back Orifice out there. Like a shadow ecosystem of archaic malware.
- ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago>Trumpet WinSock I was not prepared for that sudden blast of feelings.
- 3np 4y agoGet with the times. Windows 2000 Professional is the ticket. Even 2003 Server and 2008 server (IIRC) could practically be run as bloatless versions of their corresponding desktop versions, with way less fiddling. If I really had to be running a Windows desktop today the first thing I'd do is look if there's a viable server edition. Wikipedia tells me that Server 2022 will be supported until 2031. Not that I foresee having to do that anytime soon but would still be curious to hear if people are still doing this and if it's still the way to go.