Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this
XenGi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Windows never got any better then this. Just worse with every release.
Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this
XenGi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Windows never got any better then this. Just worse with every release.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think Windows 2000 was the high water mark. Compared to the NT based operating systems, the 9x versions were pretty rinky-dink in retrospect and not terribly reliable. 2000 was the best truly modern Windows that supported all the stuff we expect: NTFS, real user accounts, actual security, group policy management, the modern disk management utility that’s still in use today, the management console, native USB support (including 2.0 as of Service Pack 4), native ACPI hibernation support without reliance on janky vendor bullshit, etc.
Yeah, USB support. Everyone forgets that Windows 95 didn’t support USB at all out of the box and 98 barely accomplished it. 95 required the “OSR2 USB Supplement,” and 98 didn’t even support mass storage devices without third party drivers until the “SE” second edition. Those days really were that terrible.
XP was where the bloat really started setting in, but since XP was basically 2000 with extra shit duct taped to it you could still do all the same stuff with it vis-a-vis gaming and DirectX support, and by and large it could still use the same hardware drivers as XP even if vendors didn’t bother to officially support it.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Remember the port that usb device was in, in w98, otherwise you needed to reinstall it…
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And if you go anywhere with your shiny new flash, also carry a floppy disk around with you with the damn driver on it. Because you can’t trust anyone else’s computer to already have it installed.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
lol
Laser@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Remember when Bill Gates made Windows 98 BSOD during a key note by plugging in a USB device? Good times
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Server '03 was also pretty solid, didn’t have some of the weird aspects of xp.