>built on the stable NT kernel>no bloated touch-first UI>no ads>simple start menu>no webshit in the shell>code never touched by an h1b>no forced updates>no forced online login>runs just a handful of background services>gigachad mmc snap-ins for a consistent ui>has never even heard of the cloud>doesn’t try to create albums of your porn>doesn’t pre-load the file explorer, still opens it 10x faster than Windows 11We will never have this again. Long live win2000.
you forgot one:>amazing startup sound
this reminds me to continue working on my win2k / pIII build. in a good way.
Does anyone have a hobby PC that runs Windows 2000 and can say if it's "fun"? I can get my hands on some old but perfectly working hardware that lines up well with this OS.
>>109026821>>no webshit in the shellhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
>>109026978Well, what do you plan on doing with Win2K?
>>109027112Admittedly nothing I can't already do on my current PC. Force myself to familiarise with and curate a db in command-line SQL perhaps.
>We will never have this again.But you can.
>>109026997Optional feature. Also, the web of 1999 is so fundamentally different to the modern bloated abomination that its wrong to conceptualize them as the same thing. IE5 was an incredibly lean and minimal.
>>109027165It will never be usable. ReactOS is controlled opposition. Its purposelessly kept in perpetual broken state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p31oPbDrWdw
>>109026821>We will never have this againNot on Windows, but it's trivial to simulate on GNU/Linux. Even including applications of that era and resource usage.
>>109026832this warm brass is pure soul>>109026978i have one though the hardware is not 90s but mid/late 00s, stuff that was tail end of driver compatibility for win2k. I installed win2k era softwares on it and have fun doing old school workflows with them. win2k is peak windows and will always be peak.
>>109027284>IE5 was an incredibly lean and minimal.not if you were on anything slower than a Pentium III it wasn't. Same goes for the IE4 shell in Win98 before it.
>>109027948Modern Linux is as bloated as Windows 11. Its huge fat ass takes several minutes to boot on a mechanical hard drive.
>>109027291> ReactOS is controlled oppositionNah. It was a project by some Russian dude. But he was not Jewish, so never received ru gov funding necessary for it take off.Have not heard of it for a while. Is the project still alive?
>>109029657ReactOS was making progress until the (((audit)))
>>109029746It's still making progress. I swear absolutely nothing can convince you faggots.
>>109026821Windows 2000 was the easily the cleanest Windows by far. No bloat and it just werked.
>>109029961Maybe by 2060 it will be usable replacement for XP
>>109029961how close is it? i don't have the time to test reactOS but i am very curious as to how close it is.
>>109027291>It will never be usable. >ReactOS is controlled opposition.Pick one
>>109030162Close to what? It runs virtually nothing.
>>109030212These are the same thing. It won't ever be usable because its not intended to be. Its controlled opposition in that its designed to soak up developer interest in an alternative implementation of windows. Its kept in a forever broken state, with just enough progress to keep people interested. Without Reactos to distract people, efforts might actually go towards creating a real windows replacement.
>>109027122I actually just recently got an Optiplex GX1 450MHz, installed an IDE to CF card adapter and a Voodoo 3Both Win98 and Win2k are great fun. I'm using it to play games I never played from that period, and just rediscovering a bunch of old software I used as a kid.Also check out ProtoWeb, you can configure old IE versions (and other browsers) to use an archived version of websites as they were in the 90s. It even has shit like current, up-to-date Reuters news but in the 90s site format.It's actually really refreshing to install software that just fucking works, even completely offline. Installing Encarta 98, Office 2000 etc have made me realize how grim software has become. But it's inspirational too, in a way
>>109030258I'm not going to argue with you because you clearly don't understand what the term controlled opposition means or how it's used colloquially.
>>109030162ngmiIt may be active, if so it's a place to hang out with unusual people, nothing more to it.If you need something that runs windows-compatible software, but is not windows, then it's wine on linux and wrappers around it.
>>10902716532bit trash
>>109029613>Linux is bloatedYou might want to try the GNU/Hurd, then. The microkernel of GNU/Hurd is like 1/10000 the size of modern Linux
