No no, we’re not doing this. We’re not pretending Vista wasn’t absolute dog shit.
Vista will always have a special place in my heart. I learned so much from Vista, like 'Oh, wdym I can’t go back to XP?" “This is a torrent, and this is an ISO.” “This is how you install an OS.” “Wdym they’re stopping support for XP?” and “This is what Ubuntu is.”
Bro vista was such garbage my father, the kinda guy who helps salesmen sell you extra features (believes new = quality/posterity), asked me if it was possible to go back to XP after a week of Vista.
It’s not like vista didn’t work, it just took 800 years to open any application, and longer to open two at once. He just wanted to play Diablo 2 bro lol
Diablo 2 Fuck yes.
My dad was the first person I know to beat Diablo 1. So my brother, our friends and I all consider him to be the cannon wanderer, with his sons and friends as the cast of D2
I used it and didn’t mind it at the time. I personally never ran into any issues with it, and then upgraded to 7 when I got a chance.
It was certainly more stable than ME, which I also had the pleasure of running.
Vista was horrible. 8 was actually not that bad I barely remember 7 existing
But XP and 98 were the best ones
Oh man, 7 were the glory days. Gates came back to save the company.
i refused to update my home PC from 7. that’s a good box.
It works though because compared to XP, I’d pick XP every time.
Linux be like:
Linux would be more like a random assortment of planks, slabs of glass, paint cans, and a handwritten set of assembly tips and tricks.
Ipchains: What the fuck did i do?
you forgot Windows 95 which was a huge deal when it came out, arguably a bigger deal than any release since except maybe xp
Windows ME
Would have swapped 8 and vista. Vista was awefull. 8 was very special but 8.1 was actually good… but I was one of the few wierdos with an windows phone, so I liked the design.
The Oas was actually pretty solod. The only real problem was the removal of the start menu and traditional interface for non-touch computers. It’s just that it was a huge fucking problem that destroyed the perception of Win8 even after the issue was addressed.
If Metro had been the alternative interface and the traditional experience the default, it would have been celebrated as a great OS.
NT/2000 always gets left out of these, I ran 2000 on an old PC for years past XP and Vista even. But all it was doing was running a vinyl and laser cutter.
They forgot 95 and ME as well.
ME would just be a brick wall.
And I would happily go back to using 2000 if I could. I held out all the way up to about 2012, at which point the number of games that wouldn’t run out of the box got to an untenable amount. :(
Yeah ME wasn’t worth looking at, we downgraded my GF’s computer after it wouldn’t run well. 95 was a big jump over 3.1, but still more like a beta for 98.
But I switched to 2000 not long after it came out. I did set up my first home built PC with 98, in 98, just got a sudden flashback to the defragging screen. Shudders.
Win95 and Win2K forgotten again.
And millennium edition. Everyone forgets ME…god I wish I could. I was stuck with it for years
Oh crud. Did that even have a different kernel version?
Still can’t get over them making a big deal about 10 being the last one ever.
They didn’t. A single low level.employee misspoke at a trade show and the press/internet commentators made a big deal out of it.
I specifically remember “last version of windows” in the commercials and stuff, but I looked it up after reading your comment, and you appear correct. Mandella effect, or just faulty memory?
I remember that too, but more likely it was just repeated in news articles and forums and we remember it being an official tagline.
I refuse to be gaslit. This is the whole reason we had smaller feature releases like windows 10 Redstone, were pushed for game pass, and had the built in ads.
Windows 10 was supposed to be a continually evolving OS that made money from ads and subscriptions. When that failed they jumped to forcing new hardware and 11
Mandela effect. faulty memory.
Those are the same thing!
I don’t get why everyone’s so hostile to Windows Me. It was a perfectly good operating system for its time. It certainly didn’t crash on me any more than 98 did before it, or XP did after it. And it had some genuine improvements grandfathered in from Win2000.
That said, I’m now a Linux user, so my opinions are invalid /j
Windows ME had the same fixed 64KB user resources and 64KB GDI resources memory limits as Windows 95 and Windows 98 for system resource allocation regardless of how much actual RAM you had. Since ME was more resource-intensive than the previous versions, you could run out of these resource allocations while still having very much free RAM much faster.
The end-result was the computer becoming unusable even though you had resources available that the OS could have otherwise used. Certain inefficient applications like I believe Quicken could snarf up all of the system resources so you had to restart with everything you could disabled to run that one application. Same computer on Win2K would run circles around WinME.
ME was basically a less stable 98. I used it for years until the hard drive failed, and it wasn’t the worst thing ever. It was definitely a step down from 98 though, and XP blew it out of the water.
They broke stuff frequently and implemented half baked ideas that didn’t really go anywhere.
ME had the same problems as Vista and 8
By their end of life the next product was a good one because of the problems we went through with the half baked one.
ME brought us XP
Vista brought us 7
8 brought us 8.1
You are in the minority with your experience. Either you lucked out on ME or you had especially bad luck with XP.
Brand name PCs were being sold in 2000 with ME installed, that fresh out of the box would hang just trying to load the applications that were shipped with it.
I think it was overall a step down from win2k but that was the best software Microsoft has ever shipped.
In XP, the original Office Word95 assistants were my study buddies for countless hours. This is my homage to them.
Fuck Clippy. He’s a wind chime now.
Windows 7. Best ever. Miss those days.
Mmm, windows 9. My childhood is flooding back to me.
W2K was the shizzle
What version is this one?
