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Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected. (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I was there for Windows Me. Even Windows 95 I don't think people today would believe me how often it blue screened or had to be rebooted. Multiple times per day.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We used to have LAN parties back in the day with dialup internet.

    We'd need a dedicated machine to just dial up to the internet and share the connection, because that way it could run for a day or more at a time without crashing and kicking everyone off.

    I remember the moment where I realised I could just... plug the modem into my new XP machine now. You could use a computer and share internet and it'd work! For days!

    There's a reason XP hung on for so long and the previous versions didn't. XP was the first version of Windows that people felt was good enough and they didn't need anything more.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    XP was the first NT-version with a Home Edition. If you’d been running Windows 2000 at home you would’ve felt the same way (XP is basically just 2000 with a facelift, NT 5.0 to NT 5.1) and even NT4 was pretty good (though 2000 was better).

    The 9x series (95, 98, ME) were built on a different kernel and designed specifically for home use and were, in comparison, terrible. ME was especially terrible as they tried to bring plug-and-play to the 9x core without NT’s hardware abstraction layer and shit did not work well.

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