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I can still hear your startup sound (lemmy.zip)
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Gone but not forgotten

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[–] 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why is this the Windows 95 logo with the XP name photoshopped in?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It was made by an LLM running on Windows ME.

    Cut AI some slack. /jj

    But damn, people did hold onto Win XP SP3 because Vista was shit and 7, just like 10, had very rough starts.

    And fuck 11. The first time a computer's OS had Intel Inside.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Intel inside

    Now, with 10% communism.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    More like corporate welfare. Windows 10 was touted as just going to be called Windows, no more versions persè as it would be just an agile rolling release.

    Then Intel was like, "these peeps are using 24 year old computers and slapping SSDs in them... we need to do something to get people to buy computers, Micro$lop."

    And they replied with Windows 11, which forced people to buy new Intel hardware, slapped a new UI that is buggy and gross, threw in copilot, and it takes a ton of registry edits to make the damn thing usable for me.

    Anout to go back to BSD or just say, "fuck technology" and become an electrician.

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    • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    I still talk with folks about what an unmitigated security disaster it was prior to SP2.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I remember setting up a fresh XP install for a friend, and within seconds of plugging in the ethernet cable Internet Explorer started opening tons of flashing ad windows everywhere. Firewall wasn't on by default I guess? LOL

    I also remember that system messenger exploit that could send spam as system "OK" prompts to any XP machine. That was wild.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah the crazy thing is that most people were using ADSL connections directly from their computer, without a router.

    Raw dogging the internet with no firewall, that was wild.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    That's a really good point. Maybe that was cool before the Internet was swarming with exploit-sniffing bots, but nowadays? I can't even imagine!

    I've seen some videos where people open port 80 on their home network running something like PFSense. In seconds it's like "Now_all_of_China_knows_you're_here.jpeg" LOL.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, so, Windows XP didn't look like that.

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    [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

    Like Ubuntu 8.04, canonical with their attempts to make an apple inspired walled garden have mucked it all up. I want Debian but better but not with too much extra. Ubuntu was this ultimate nexus of Linux for a moment but now it's gone. Now Fedora is the runner up.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I was a life long windows guy up until I switched to nobara linux in january this year. I've tried linux now and again in the past but WINE just didn't work well enough or it didn't support hardware I was using or I couldn't do something I wanted to do. Well Nobara installs all my Steam games perfect. Proton and WINE work flawless. All my games work. It supports all my hardware. I can customize everything exactly the way I want. It is IMO the first linux distro that is functionally better than Windows. I know that might piss off some lifelong linux users but it was the distro that made me switch.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Nah Linux is about freedom. When you distro hop enough you'll see the differences between the major distros are mainly subjective. Nobara had a specific goal and they've done a really good job of achieving it so I got nothing but respect for that team. People get persnickety but that's just people being lame. I'm not personally married to any distro. Right now rocking Fedora but may switch back to arch when I get another machine or feel like doing a fresh install.

    Same deal for Zorin, not what I would personally run but I appreciate them. Then there's distros with a very specific use case like tails, puppy Linux, DSL, qubes, Nix, openWRT, and so on and they're great too. I have a puppy Linux and tails flashdrive.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    People get persnickety but that's just people being lame.

    Well said

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Thanks. Been around the Linux block a few times. It's all the same kernel and user space for the most part. All anyone is really doing is make some choices about compiling the kernel, what packages they want to support and what package manager they want to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Same, I distro-hopped a bunch when I built this PC last year and landed on Fedora (funny enough, the one I tried right before was Nobara), and it's been more than good enough so far that I don't feel the need to switch. At this point, most of the time I kinda forget that I'm using Linux because things just work that smoothly. Definitely a huge leap from even ~5 years ago.

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    • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Why XP and not 2000?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, 2000 was everything good about xp without the bad.

    Its the last version of windows I ran at home.

    Sadly family and work require me to be familiar with what microsoft has released since then

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    • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    XP was an unmitigated disaster at release it got better tho.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    We still talk about you because some dumb internal applications that were created more than 2 decades ago and nobody dares to update are still running on them, creating awful cybersecurity weaknesses and dragging the entire network down with it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Probably 10 years ago I encountered a pump on a job. It was huge. 2-3 stories tall. Probably cost millions.

    There was a computer plugged into, an old beige tower case and a CRT monitor with RS232 serial cable between it and the pump.

    This was the control system, it was connected to the network (airgapped LAN fortunately).

    Was running NT4!

    I have no idea why it was set up this way, PLCs were definitely the standard at the time and there were older PLCs than that on the site. No one who worked there was around when it was installed, it was just the way it was.

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    • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I just overwrote a Windows XP installation with Void Linux last weekend on an old netbook for a family member. But I felt very nostalgic when I booted a real XP system to see what was on it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I totally changed my KDE themes to be XP-esque, sound themes and all, just to have the good parts I missed, but keep a usable OS haha.

    M$ has done and continues to do a lot of terribad things, but XP wasn't one of them. Computers felt fun back then.

    ....Minus all the security issues. That's gotten better with time...

    Edit: Oh yeah there's a subreddit of people modernizing XP and making new drivers for it and stuff LOL

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    • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I have weirdly strong nostalgia for Windows 98 but I can't possibly explain why...

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    • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Aow awahoo, a-dunn

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Ahh yes, let's stack system edits to not be prioritized in memory then written to disk. What's that, a power outage? Well sucks to be you, reinstall.

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