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Win2k was where it was at. I miss that OS. Maybe it is rose tinted glasses ... But yeah it was sooooo much better than xp. I remember people using the beta for

• qubex 3y ago
  Windows 2000 is some kind of apex in the Windows OS abstract space. I remember being in the beta programme back in the second half of 1999 and being amazed at how solid it was even then. (I was a home user but I’d been bitten by the BeOS bug so I had a dual PIII-450 system, and since I had then-newfangled USB ports that NT 4.0 didn’t support I was virtually compelled to adopt 2k even in its unfinished state if I wanted to run Windows apps and partake of the SMP facilities.)
• ChrisRR 3y ago
  I still maintain that Windows 2000 was the best version of Windows. It was lean enough that it ran on older hardware, used the more secure NT kernel, lacked the XP bloat, was user friendly for most users, and didn't include a bunch of unused crapware. Nowadays my latest laptop came with Windows 11 pre-installed. It loads up, logs in, connects to the network and shows the desktop background. That consumes 5GB of RAM and 27GB of HD space. Windows 2000 did the same in 64MB of RAM and 1.2GB of HD space. Anyway, I've replaced WIndows 11 with Linux, and booting to my desktop consumes 800MB of RAM
• lttlrck 3y ago
  It was a great OS, NT 4.0 with the rough edges smoothed off. I stayed with it as long as I could.