Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️having a normal day where I try to install windows 98 drivers for my 3dfx voodoo 3 card
I rebooted and now it made me reinstall my ethernet card
windows 9x was wild
I think I was trying to install Voodoo 1 drivers for my Voodoo3
no wonder it didn't work
installing the 3DFX tools made me agree to a EULA.
I wonder if there's any legal weight to signing a eula for a company that doesn't exist
man having used modern (Windows 8 and up, I think?) Start Menus makes you look like an idiot when you're back on Windows 98.
I'm used to just hitting Windows and typing what I want. That doens't work on win98
Anatoly Shashkin💾@foone Yeah, in modern Windows I never use Start for anything else, because they've made it so terrible. It's basically a Start Typing button now instead.
Jernej Simončič �@dosnostalgic @foone In 11 it's not even usable for that – it shows web results first, and the group policy that was supposed to disable that doesn't work half of the time.
grawity@jernej__s @dosnostalgic @foone maybe it's country-dependent, but 11 also has "Privacy > Search > Let search apps show results" which seems to reliably turn off Bing results even without a separate GPO
Joel@jernej__s @dosnostalgic @foone
KDE does a rather remarkable job with their search, you can just start typing when you don’t have a window in focus and it searches. I miss it when on macOS and Windows.
Ronan@dosnostalgic @foone I sometimes wonder if they made the menu unusable in order to get people to use search instead, or if they didn't bother to keep it usable because people were using search anyway.
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Tachibana Kanade@foone Damn, I’d completely forgotten how fluent I used to be pressing Winkey - P - [First letter of group name multiple times] - Right arrow - … to navigate to my most frequently used programs.
Even now when I rarely use Windows I’ll sometimes do things like Winkey+R - winword - Enter to open Word
Stryder Notavi@foone I remember meticulously organising my start menu so that everything was easy to find (though also because I was the kind of kid to meticulously organise a collection).
Not so much value in that now that you can just search by name.
Trigonated@foone had the exact same experience with XP, recently.
Also, hate that almost every single program wants to have it's own company folder on the start menu. Ah, yes, the common software categories: accessories, Multimedia, Games, Administration, Maxis, Sierra, Cryo.
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Tom Forsyth@foone IIRC Nvidia bought almost everything in 3dfx. Whether the EULA transfers depends on the exact wording in the EULA, but it's entirely plausible they now own your ass.
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installing the 3DFX tools made me agree to a EULA. I wonder if there's any legal weight to signing a eula for a company that doesn't exist
@cstross fun fact: I've been to the old 3DFX headquarters: it's now a church.
I was hoping it'd be like Our Lady of the Rasterized Polygon but no, it's just boring regular christians
STP
Ignazio Palmisano@foone Just do it two more times.
BoredomFestival@foone it still is wild, but it was wild, too
Jbrown, Esq@foone wasn't local area networking an add on for win98, and unavailable (without hacks, trickery) on win95? I believe that's the case for 98.
@jbrownesq @foone It wasn't installed by default on 95 (can't remember about 98), but no hacks were required.
Dave Perry@foone I read "on" 😅
Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈)@foone If you have the opportunity to enjoy that jewel of a racing game that was Motorhead (1998) (came for free with Vodoo2 graphics card), don't miss it. That game had music composed by Olof Gustafsson, the composer of the music for Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions 