Okay fine, Linux might be better than Windows NOW, but can we all agree to the reality that Windows has always been the greatest desktop OS prior to the jeetification?
>>109703987No. OS2 and BeOS won
>>109703987Windows 98 was the shithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2o7_u4E0E
>>109703987I knew a faggot who used Windows 2000 because XP was 'too colorful' and he got it for free from his dad.Mark if you read this... I miss you bro.
>>109704041XP was kind of nasty to use after using 2000, because Microsoft dumbed down the UI and made it harder to use for people with IQ over 60.I agree with that Mark guy that 2000 is better, but I don't necessarily understand his reason.
>>109704041XP was really just Windows 2000 with flashier UI and few minor additions.I guess one could just use classic UI in XP, but really it was not as revolutionary as people claim it to be.
>>109703987>windows 2000friendly reminder that the cyberpunks from back then spited on windows 95, 98, 200, xp.. for being the incremental stepping toward the shit show we have now.https://geocities.restorativland.org/SiliconValley/2072/lametech.txt
>>109703987Windows was always kinda shit, slow, unstable, insecure etc, it was hard carried by Microsoft's anti-trust monopolistic tactics which forced most people to use Windows on their computers which then forced all hardware, software and game developers to make shit for that platform since everyone was using that. It's only by Windows 7 that it became half-way decent, but then they added tablet shit, telemetry and ads with their next versions and it became a different kind of shit, on top of the legacy shittiness made worse with vibe coding.Without telemetry and ads Windows 10 is probably the best Windows version.
>>109704267Retard contrarians have always existed. Everyone with brains recognize Windows for being objectively superior back in the day.
>>109704220Why would you want an overly complex ux
>>109703987yes I agree, 2000 pro was the best
>>109703987many things were great before the enjeetification.
>>109706065and it hasn't even started yet
>>109704267>Windows just keeps getting worse and worse. Far from benefiting yourself by upgrading, you are taking a big risk every time you upgrade to a newer version. >Purists will say that there was no single point: Windows has been a messy, bloated operating system from its very first version. And while this is true, it is also worth noting that there was a point when Windows was at least usableNice to see that nothing has changed.First time I've read that and there are also nuggets like this:>Yet the basic truth is that even a non-technical user could get into Windows 3.1 and use it and its applications without many complications. Maybe you had to change a FILES= or BUFFERS= line in your CONFIG.SYS file; Maybe you had to edit your WIN.INI slightly. Big deal! Is that so hard? The answer is no. Indeed, even a computer illiterate can use a text editor. The main people who say that editing your startup files is "too hard" are the people with a hidden agenda: The software company that wants to convince you to buy their new operating system because it is more user-friendly.And there's a rant that "Linux is a toy compared to the BSDs like FreeBSD which are what the 'in-the-know people' actually use".Amusing read.
Windows 2000 could run entirely in the cache of the latest cpus.
>>1097043787 felt like the last "justified" major Windows iteration. 8 was a misstep and there's no good reason for 10 to have completely displaced 7, just that they wanted a new OS series to sell primarily to enterprise class customers and to serve as a groundwork for telemetry hell. And 11 is just an even more evil and incompetent version of same.Whoever first said "don't attribute to malice what you can to stupidity" was too naive, because often times (especially nowadays) they're shockingly deeply interlinked with each other.
>>109704041XP is 2000 with a Firewall.t. getting infected on monthly basis just for using 2000 back then
>>109703987>Bait and switchNice try, Linux is simple a shitty experience as a desktop OS back then and still is now. They've had over 30 years to get their shit together and it's still fucked. It takes extenuating circumstances to push people into Linux, which tells you all you need to know.
>>109708148XP only got safe from malware after SP2.
>>109703987No, Plan 9 was the best desktop until Linux killed it
>>109708174Saaaaar
>>109705969It wasn't complex, w2k more or less had the same conventions the previous iterations had and by the time people started to move into xp, a lot have been using the old gui for almost a decadeThe jump to xp was like driving in the UK. Sure, you can, but everything looks fucking weird after driving on the other side for ages. Also what used to be easy to find was hidden behind submenus and other hops.
>>109703987>>windows 2000Was the first version of Windows that didn't suck to use on dual CPU PCs whichanyone seriously into performance at the time took advantage of. NT was overly fond of BSOD. Overclocked dual Celerons were a performance bargain.
the year of the linux desktop can be ushered in with the arrival of fornite on linux. This would be akin to acquiring 3 pristine red heifers and rebuilding the 3rd temple. unfortunately it would usher in the apocalypse.
>>109704381>Everyone with brains recognize Windows for being objectively superior back in the day>t.
>>109708769Show me what Linux's answer to Premiere/Vegas Pro/DaVinci Resolve was when George Bush was president.
>>109703987>Linux might be better than Windows NOWIt's not, though.
>>109703987No. Linux kept getting better, Windows kept getting worse and worse.
>>109709029Resolve is still crippled on Linux to this day. Shit sucks.>>109709034
>>109709050>Linux has gotten betterIt hasn't. It still has all the same problems that make it shitty as a desktop OS that counter any benefits it has.
>>109709646The MUH SPYING argument also doesn't work within the EU, where I reside, due to the much, much stricter controls nad privacy laws.
>>109709646Hardware support is excellent these days, stability is not an issue and compatibility with Windows binaries is almost a solved problem. Since you didn't specify these issues you've mentioned, I assume you're just a brandwarrior with nothing to say.
>>109708140Windows 10 felt far more stable than 7, despite the increased aids and telemetry
>>109703987If you judge systems by their components then no, even old versions of KDE and GNOME were miles ahead of Windows 98/XP etc: they already had virtual desktops, great file explorers and shit. Windows was always about third party software, and what made old Windows versions good is that it didn't get in the way of using third party software.
trying aluminum os when it comes out
>>109710022Win10 was good. I know it was good because I could buy cheap little $100 books and it would run fine. That's pretty much impossible with Win11.
win xp was major technical improvement over win2kyou faggots just drool over that brutalist "clean" gui
>>109704035>gets pwned by a single irc command into hard restarting
>>109709029ffmpeg
