So I just need to do basic tasks like listen to music, stream video, and browse basic websites. Is installing windows 2000 a bad idea? How fucked will I be for drivers?The reason I want to do this for one, it's botnet free, and two it was the most streamlined of classic operating systems. I really have a boner for Windows 2000 and I just want to know if it's even moderately viable to use in this day and age.
Bruh if you want to have a driverless experience on a modern PC you might as well use linux or bsd
It's just a slower WinXP
Put it on a virtual machine on your current PC and see if anything doesn't work. My browser on Windows 7 (Opera) won't update unless I also update Windows, and this has started to result in some websites not loading for me, so you're guaranteed to eat more shit than you expect to.
>>107705709You'll have to use old hardware to get proper driver support. I've seen people install it on modern motherboards with a lot of hacks and workarounds, but even then they have to use old graphics and sound cards. That said, it should do what you need. Kmeleon will let you browse some sites, but half the Internet is locked behind cloudflare these days. If you installed the kernel extension you may be able to use an XP browser like Supermium or Newmoon, which would get you much better results. Failing that, you could use browservice and have modern chrome do all the rendering on another computer and then stream the webpage as a series of images to the win2k machine. Ikatube lets you stream YouTube to vlc or mpv, but is very limited. There's a fork of ytdlp for xp, but not 2k, kernel extension may help here. You may be able to use invidious in kmeleon, but the new capchas might block it.
>>107705746It's not slower, it just has less features
>>107705764Isn't opera just a chrome fork these days? Why not just use a different fork the supports 7.
>>107705709I'm certainly not a linux enthusiast, but if you want to just do all that you listed, then why don't you just install a popular linux distro? You can customize it to have the windows 9x gui.
>>107706041>then why don't you just install a popular linux distro?
>>107705854It is slower, you just have nostalgia goggles
>>107706135I've use old versions of videos pretty regularly. 2000 isn't any slower than XP, if anything its faster, especially faster than sp3. Hell even ME isn't any slower than XP on my machine.
>>107706041Nta, but there is a real and irrevocable difference between Windows and Linux. I hate the way UNIX and UNIX-likes operate and think they make horrible home operating systems.
>>107705709Perfectly viable with the right hardware, which's much harder to come by than plain XP-ready hardware that's fast enough for modern use, and that's why I recomnend POSReady 2009 instead; it's XP but you can choose to install none of the junk so it operates more or less like Win2k.
