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Longhorn is a fine name, and it doesn't matter if somebody else used it 20+ years ago
by onionisafruit 1y ago
Longhorn is a fine name, and it doesn't matter if somebody else used it 20+ years ago
- weinzierl 1y agoBy that logic Titanic would be a fine name too.
- NewJazz 1y agoHmm, maybe just shorten to Titan?
- esafak 1y agoJust don't use it to name a database.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoI mean, I think it would be. Superstition about naming is silly.
- ofrzeta 1y agohttps://www.titanic-magazin.de https://www.titanic-magazin.de
- fineallaround 1y ago[flagged]
- privatelypublic 1y agoEven complaining about Vista raises eyebrows. It had two huge issues: overactive UAC, and Microsoft handing "Vista Certified" to basically anybody who asked. (Frequently to machines that would barely run XP pre-SP1.) Most of the complaints can be reduced to one of those. Yes- I hand wave away a lot of other things: because they were required for a huge step towards a decently secure and stable OS.
- samplatt 1y ago>a huge step towards a decently secure and stable OS It absolutely was an important (and required) step towards a more secure and stable OS. What it was not, though, was a secure and stable OS. Windows ME was the same. A required step on the path towards something better, and ALSO something that had the "Windows XX-ready" badge slapped on anything that asked. But no one is lining up to try Vista again apart from technical challenges.
- privatelypublic 1y agoME is... not comparable? There's no security boundaries ME could implement- it was still DOS and fat32. The list of changes Vista made were never going to go off without a hitch. When you put new boundaries in place in the kernel, and a driver violates them because it was recompiled not updated to handle a separation and handle errors from it: there's no choice but to Kernel Panic. Compatibility Shims were introduced for userland changes. Despite the hate, DWM handled the most frequent crashes: graphics. Microsoft is STILL working on pulling graphics code out of the kernel and into userland.
- hulitu 1y ago> It absolutely was an important (and required) step towards a more secure and stable OS. What it was not, though, was a secure and stable OS. Every Windows version was a "step towards a more secure and stable OS". The issue is: they never get there.
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- selfhoster11 1y agoThat is false. Sincerely, a lover of Gemini (the protocol, and the AI) and Gopher (the protocol, and not the language).