Gammitin (Ben) 💾Thursday evening Windows 98 install on a Pentium II, my kind of Zen 🧘♂️😊
Nazo@Gammitin I think I ran Windows 98SE still well into something crazy like 2005 or something. 😆 When XP came around it was great, but so high on resource usage! (It feels so weird to say that today since XP is about a billion times more efficient than 10 which in turn was probably about a billion times more efficient than 11. And really, if you turned off extras like themes, XP was barely more than 2000.)
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@nazokiyoubinbou @Gammitin I preferred Windows 2000 at the time.
Even on a Pentium MMX 166MHz and 48MB RAM, Windows 2000 Pro RC2 had better multitasking than Windows 95 and seemed to run better.
I didn't get a machine with Windows XP until some years later… and yeah, I turned off a lot of the visual effects and just had it plain Windows 2000 style. Even later on Windows 7 I did the same.
My desktop today? Latest Gentoo, with FVWM3 as the desktop doing its best MWM impersonation. I've tried a few Wayland compositors, I think LabWC is the closest, but it's missing a lot of things I use from FVWM3, so for now FVWM is where I stay.
@stuartl @Gammitin I was a gamer and had lots of issues with 2000 and games. It just wasn't there yet for me. Really even XP, as I said, left me dual booting for a little while and it was a bit more ready by then (or I should say games were more ready for it.) In fact, I had issues like lockups from my sound card drivers (SB Live I think? Might have been the AWE64. Either way, a standard Creative Labs card!) in 2k...
Windows 7 was perhaps Microsoft's best OS in a lot of ways (stability, features, etc etc) but yeah, I still had to use Start Menu Classic or, as it later became known, Classic Shell. I was so sad to see how shockingly quickly every single developer abandoned it. It has been downhill FAST since 7's death.