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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by thenewred@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Windows had 3 peaks. 95, xp, and 7.

Now I just use Linux. I know not everyone can, but for everything I do or need to do it all works just fine there so I couldn't be happier.

[–] uncertainty@lemmy.nz 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My favourite Windows is still 2000.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that the one you could get to BSOD with a single ping?

[–] uncertainty@lemmy.nz 3 points 10 months ago

Do you mean the ping of death? That was pretty cross-platform and a bit earlier https://insecure.org/sploits/ping-o-death.html

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, the last version of my that was vulnerable was 3.5.1 2000 was better than xp for a year after XP came out. You couldn't even boot XP on a driver bigger than 128GB where 2000 had that bug already patched.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everyone can, really. It's not 2002 anymore. Linux has been ready for prime time for some time now. All it lacks is critical mass.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean people with tight corporate requirements cannot. Certain headaches with security designations, not all software works great in Linux, even though most do.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

My point is there's no required savvyness like it used to a couple decades ago.

A corporation is arguably best positioned to make the transition. The one I work at has all their administrative systems as cloud apps. The few production systems that run native can be run in a Citrix or RDP environment. Even now, with user stations running Windows, these systems are accessed through RDP for... reasons anyway.

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

Windows ME is life, only second to Windows Vista.

[–] cophater69@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Don't forget to combine the powers of windows CE windows ME and windows NT~!

[–] words_number@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, XP was pretty great too! Can't say much about 95, we switched from DOS directly to 98 back then, which crashed all the time. I heard good things about 98SE though.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

My memory is 98 was more stable than 95 but I was also quite young at the time so I wouldn't trust my memory that far back