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But you could do a heck of a lot with a small program on those machines. I still find it amazing that we have a lot more processing performance, RAM and disk s
by scrapheap 3y ago
But you could do a heck of a lot with a small program on those machines.
I still find it amazing that we have a lot more processing performance, RAM and disk space these days, and yet every new commercial Operating System version that comes out requires more resources than the last and yet delivers essentially the same results...
- jojobas 3y agoI dare you to boot into any GUI OS from 2013 and try not to shudder. Then boot into a 2003 one and try not to shudder even harder. Bonus points for Windows 95.
- jbverschoor 3y agoBoot BeOS or QNX..
- flohofwoe 3y agoShudder from awesomeness? Windows 2k is still peak Windows UI (the aesthetics might be subject to fashion cycles - still better than the lollipop look that was prelevant on Mac and WinXP shortly after, but the UX has gone into a slow downward spiral since then). Same is true for macOS, only that it reached its peak and following slow regression about a decade later).
- forinti 3y agoBoot RISC-OS on a Raspberry Pi. That was a nice fast graphical OS even before the 90s.
- scrapheap 3y agoBoots into Windows 7 (a 2009 OS) ... No shudder Boots into Windows XP (a 2001 OS) ... No shudder Boots into Windows 98 (a 1998 OS) ... No shudder Boots into Windows 95 (a 1995 OS) ... No shudder Fires up the old Amiga 1200 and boots into Workbench 3.0 (a 1992 OS) ... No shudder Fires up the even older Amiga 500 and boots into Workbench 1.3 (a 1988 OS) ... No shudder Ok, that last one might have triggered a shudder if I'd left the original color settings in place :D I would continue but I've just found my old Syndicate floppy disks for the A500, so I might be sometime...
- j4yav 3y agoWhat is the shudder I should be expecting?
- Anarch157a 3y agoFrom a user experience point of view, Windows 2000 was absolutely awesome. An operating system should not get in your way and distract you from what you need to do the way Win 10 and 11 do.
- bitsandboots 3y agoso, KDE 5 or KDE 3? Yeah, both are superior to even modern windows and mac UIs, what's the problem?
- t-3 3y agoHas anything changed since 2013? 2003? Windows XP/ME/etc/.../95 was basically the same as modern windows just with boxier window decorations, no windows-phone-tile thing and less spyware.