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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by agumonkey on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:11AM (#18004802)
my favorite MS anecdote: PC Magazine gave a beta 2k install on a CD. I tried it, and it was such an improvement over 98 that I never installed anything else until XP was a ~requirement (mostly a convenience because it embedded more and more recent drivers)
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by ashleyn on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:29AM (#18004866)
To be frank, that's because the Win 9x line was intentionally designed around the older, less-stable MS-DOS architecture. NT, which is what 2000 was based on, was around for seven years by that point and was remarkably stable. The big problem is that it was compatible with virtually nothing, and it wasn't until Win XP that the business world aligned itself with NT.
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by menacingly on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:39AM (#18005329)
It wasn't until XP that the _consumer_ world aligned itself with NT. NT 4 & 2000 were unavoidable in business networks with windows domains
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by agumonkey on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:14AM (#18005597)
NT was more compatible with my hardware than 98 :)
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by kevin_thibedeau on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:07PM (#18007752)
Unless you wanted USB support.
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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by masklinn on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:31AM (#18004875)
> I never installed anything else until XP was a ~requirement

Likewise. I only migrated to WXP because AoE3 required it… and it turned out to be terrible but there was no real way to downgrade.

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Re:Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux by agumonkey on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:14AM (#18005592)
same, not AoE3 but I remember that I didn't want XP but something required it...
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