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I’ve been a Mac user for most of my life, but professionally also used Windows 2000 a long time, many years ago. It was a solid, speedy OS. Now at a new job I
by wsc981 3y ago
I’ve been a Mac user for most of my life, but professionally also used Windows 2000 a long time, many years ago.
It was a solid, speedy OS. Now at a new job I use Windows 11 and it’s a bit of a pain.
Would use Windows 2000 instead if still useful today, but I doubt I could run all the software I need for my job, sadly.
- sitzkrieg 3y agoi remember making a slip stream install of windows 2000 x64 edition. it was a bit unicorn finding drivers/hardware but that is still the fastest desktop experience ive ever seen in 30 years
- IntelMiner 3y agoNo x64 (AMD64) version of Windows 2000 ever existed. AMD64 CPU's didn't debut until 2003 and XP x64 was based off the work done on 64-bit Server 2003 for Intel's 64-bit Itanium chips There was a brief period of Alpha machines that ran 64-bit CPU's that had early "Whistler" builds but nothing ever released to the public
- sitzkrieg 3y agoHrm you're right, digging a bit it must have been windows xp right after i switched from 2000 but nonetheless comparable