Unofficial Windows XP SP4

Re:Unofficial Windows XP SP4 by laumars on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:51AM (#21451510)

Quite a lot of people did also run 2000 at home as well. It was actually a damn good OS given it's era: Linux wasn't ready to be used as a primary OS for most people, 9x/Me was total garbage and OS9 was somehow worse. Apple hadn't yet released OSX (that came a year later IIRC) and there were some inevitable compatibility and onboarding issues when that was released. The only real contender was BeOS (which did support x86 by that point) but sadly that didn't have the momentum to challenge Microsoft.

> For the entreprise users it was mostly the same as Windows 2000, a great OS released just a few months before that was much better than NT 4.

Windows 2000 definitely wasn't "mostly the same" as NT 4. They were as different as Vista was to XP. 2000 and XP (pre-SP2) were very similar though.

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Re:Unofficial Windows XP SP4 by kitsunesoba on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:00AM (#21453522)

Windows 2000’s stability was something else coming from 98SE and Mac OS 9. My family’s shared/house PC back then was a Dell Dimension 4100, which was actually pretty great in terms of hardware but was chained down by 98SE. The increase in usability that thing had as a result of being upgraded to 2000 was staggering. It went from “ok” performing and bluescreening every so often to a rock solid powerhouse in a single step.

If only all OS upgrades went that way…

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Re:Unofficial Windows XP SP4 by jacobush on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:23AM (#21453131)

I miss NT 3.51 - it was rock solid (it didn't have a compromised driver model) and smooth even on 486 hardware.

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