Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

  • Rimu
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    892 months ago

    Windows 2000 was the peak - rock solid with no visual fluff. XP was 2000 with a childish skin on it and it’s all downhill from there.

    • @stoly
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      222 months ago

      I’ve always believed that 2k was the best software they ever produced.

      • @grue
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        32 months ago

        Nah, that would surely be a game or something. Maybe Age of Empires II?

        • @toddestan
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          52 months ago

          Naw, the best software they’ve ever produced is 6502 BASIC.

          Though Flight Simulator does get an honorable mention.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      Oh man that was one of the few windows distros I never felt too compelled to reinstall. Perf just never degraded that much with a reasonably defragged drive (jesus I am dating myself with that statement)

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      I remember all the nicknames from when XP came out. I don’t remember which was more common; disco windows, or teletubby windows.

      • @1995ToyotaCorolla
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        2 months ago

        In my neck of the woods it was called fisher price windows lol

    • circuitfarmer
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      12 months ago

      I gamed on Win2k until I couldn’t anymore because of requirements. It was excellent.

      I eventually ended up on XP, and the first thing I did was shut off the Fisher Price skin. It still never ran quite as good as Win2k.