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Even though I have (like a lot of other folks) become anti-Windows recently, this is amusing, for nostalgic & other reasons. Perhaps that is where Windows fits

Even though I have (like a lot of other folks) become anti-Windows recently, this is amusing, for nostalgic & other reasons. Perhaps that is where Windows fits best -- in the history museum.

pavlov 3y ago
People have become anti-Windows recently? I don’t think there ever was a time when hackers liked this product. 1.0? Useless. 2.0? Ugly. 3.0? Weak compared to OS/2. NT 3.5? Too slow. 95? Too crashy. NT 4.0? Too fat. 98? Too much IE. XP? Too popular. Vista? Everything wrong. 7? Too little change. 8? Too much change. 10? Too much cloud. 11? Too recent; I can’t remember
- vikingerik 3y ago
  Funnily, the one you don't list is Windows 2000, and in my memory that actually was reasonably hacker-liked. It didn't have the problems of the contemporaries - wasn't too fat (about the same as NT 4, but hardware had advanced) or too crashy or too much IE (or MSN.) I used 2000 as my daily driver for several years, even for gaming, up until around 2007 when compatibility with newer software and hardware dwindled.
  - pavlov 3y ago
    2000 was great, I used it too. I admit to leaving it out because I couldn’t instantly think of a contemporary criticism! It was a time when the Mac wasn’t even an option (OS 9 sucked, X was a barely working beta) and Linux was frustratingly unfinished. Windows 2000 really was a great OS for the hardware of the time.
    - mysterydip 3y ago
      2000? Too good
  - Modified3019 3y ago
    I actually skipped winXP entirely because my main computer was an old thinkpad with win2000, xp would have just slowed it down and filled up more of the screen with UI candy. When I eventually got a new laptop it had vista which was fine for me (this was several months after its release, so the teething issues were basically fixed)
  - guenthert 3y ago
    Windows 2000? The one which f'ck'ed up ^W^W embraced&extended Kerberos? Yeah, sure we liked that.
- klysm 3y ago
  Vista was truly an abomination though
  - doubled112 3y ago
    I only ran a Vista machine for a few weeks while the 7 upgrade DVD came in the mail. It was already SP2, and the machine was fairly powerful (quad core CPU, 8GB RAM). It honestly worked pretty well. I still think it's one of the best looking Windows ever.
  - deleted 3y ago
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Even though I have (like a lot of other folks) become anti-Windows recently, this is amusing, for nostalgic & other reasons. Perhaps that is where Windows fits best -- in the history museum.

pavlov 3y ago

People have become anti-Windows recently? I don’t think there ever was a time when hackers liked this product. 1.0? Useless. 2.0? Ugly. 3.0? Weak compared to OS/2. NT 3.5? Too slow. 95? Too crashy. NT 4.0? Too fat. 98? Too much IE. XP? Too popular. Vista? Everything wrong. 7? Too little change. 8? Too much change. 10? Too much cloud. 11? Too recent; I can’t remember

vikingerik 3y ago
Funnily, the one you don't list is Windows 2000, and in my memory that actually was reasonably hacker-liked. It didn't have the problems of the contemporaries - wasn't too fat (about the same as NT 4, but hardware had advanced) or too crashy or too much IE (or MSN.) I used 2000 as my daily driver for several years, even for gaming, up until around 2007 when compatibility with newer software and hardware dwindled.
- pavlov 3y ago
  2000 was great, I used it too. I admit to leaving it out because I couldn’t instantly think of a contemporary criticism! It was a time when the Mac wasn’t even an option (OS 9 sucked, X was a barely working beta) and Linux was frustratingly unfinished. Windows 2000 really was a great OS for the hardware of the time.
  - mysterydip 3y ago
    2000? Too good
- Modified3019 3y ago
  I actually skipped winXP entirely because my main computer was an old thinkpad with win2000, xp would have just slowed it down and filled up more of the screen with UI candy. When I eventually got a new laptop it had vista which was fine for me (this was several months after its release, so the teething issues were basically fixed)
- guenthert 3y ago
  Windows 2000? The one which f'ck'ed up ^W^W embraced&extended Kerberos? Yeah, sure we liked that.
klysm 3y ago
Vista was truly an abomination though
- doubled112 3y ago
  I only ran a Vista machine for a few weeks while the 7 upgrade DVD came in the mail. It was already SP2, and the machine was fairly powerful (quad core CPU, 8GB RAM). It honestly worked pretty well. I still think it's one of the best looking Windows ever.
- deleted 3y ago
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