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    [–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yeah windows ME came out around the same time as 2000 and was the consumer targeted OS

    [–] Nougat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The googles tells me that Win2K was released Feb 17, 2000, and that ME was released Sep 14, 2000. Plenty of time for word to get out about how much better 2000 was than 9x even for home use.

    [–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ah but in reality that wasn't entirely the case, direct X compatible drivers were a big sticking point basically until XP came along. Windows 2000 was fantastic as a productivity OS, but it wasn't fully there for the home user yet

    [–] Nougat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

    I do recall that for some heavier (in 2000 lol) gaming, people stuck with 9x for a while longer, until better gaming support for 2K came around at least.

    [–] elscallr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    It was also a lot more expensive than Windows 9x/me, so most consumer desktops went that way. The only people running 2000 were professionals and nerds that weren't running Linux.