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Long ago I loved Windows, it wasn't pretty, but it was utilitarian and it worked and I could strip it down to what I needed and I was good to go. I still fondl

• brulard 2y ago
  Me coming from Amiga, I didn't love Windows (starting around 95-98 versions). It should have been more modern and quick, but in many aspects it wasn't. I learned to tolerate it, and I became good at working with it. After years I tried hackintosh (OsX Lion, 2011), and I was amazed at the difference. Even hackintosh was completely stable (unlike windows) on my hardware and I loved all the features and polished things. I still kept a windows machine or two somewhere around to deal with work, etc. and from what I've seen, it went downhill so much since the XP era. Although I think even macos goes downhill, but it's night and day difference to Windows. YMMV of course.
  • TheChaplain 2y ago
    Still amazes me what one could do with 1mb RAM at the time.
• the_third_wave 2y ago
  > the old windows 95 start me up commercials Yes, so do I. I worked as editor for a computer magazine and as such was invited to the launch event and was flabbergasted by them selecting a song which' next line was "you make a grown men cry". It sure did, in many ways but not as they intended. Maybe I should add that I was and am more of a Linux person? Windows 95 was a house of cards built on quicksand, it out-guru-meditationed the Amiga, it was OS/1.13 to OS/2 2.x but boy did it sell well. I also remember a sales droid showing me the "security" offered by the policy manager, "look you can restrict which programs your users can run". Sure, I thought, let's see how deep that goes and opened a document in Windows Write, added an embedded (OLE) document for the program he just removed from the user's start menu through the policy manager and double-clicked the resulting icon in the Write document. The "forbidden" program started, the sales droid looked surprised, the hypothesis was proven.
• TiredOfLife 2y ago
  https://www.apple.com/in/apple-intelligence/ https://www.apple.com/in/apple-intelligence/
  • duxup 2y ago
    I don’t know what that is supposed to mean.
  • tapoxi 2y ago
    A good example, in the Apple ecosystem these features are free.
    • Incipient 2y ago
      Id say that's because apple runs locally and Microsoft farms it off to openai?
• luckman212 2y ago
  macOS (OS X for those old enough to remember when it exuded quality) is no picnic either. Apple's software is arguably buggier than Microsoft/Windows these days. I haven't seen a real Blue Screen of Death in years, but my M4 Pro Mac Mini with 64GB RAM routinely hard-locks on a black screen when simply trying to reboot it, or starts beachballing with some process called 'audiomxd' eating my CPU.
  • commandersaki 2y ago
    Sounds anecdotal tbh. As a datapoint I have been running OSX/macOS since 2002 and have had probably 3 grey screen of death and usually in the early years.
  • mianos 2y ago
    I've seen bugs but never seen a hard locked black screen.
  • firecall 2y ago
    That does sound like something is amiss and not the common experience of Mac ownership in the Apple Silicon Era!
• chneu 2y ago
  I ran to Linux(pop os is legit pretty good) When I do need windows I run a version called Ghost Spectre which is a slimmed down version that removes a ton of annoying Microsoft shit.
  • RamRodification 2y ago
    Maybe I'm overly cautious but I would never use these special modified versions of Windows made by some guy. Seems like a huge security risk.
    • chneu 2y ago
      I'd say it's less of a security risk than running vanilla windows 11 in 2025. All ghost Spectre does is remove a ton of intrusive spyware and annoyances from windows. It also adds some great stuff that isn't enabled/available by default cuz windows has become garbage.
      • RamRodification 2y ago
        > All ghost Spectre does is ... How can you know this? Not a rhetorical question, I am interested to know if this can be, or has been verified.