Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)
by zdragnar on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:03PM
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If you're breaking out 98 into two releases, then you should probably break out XP into pre-service-packs and post. IME it wasn't until SP3 that XP really felt solid, depending on what hardware you were running.
Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)
by ok123456 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:09PM
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Pre-SP3 XP was slow out of the box, buggy, and insecure.
Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)
by p1necone on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @07:59PM
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And then there's 11 which doesn't really feel like a new version at all to me.
I use 10 at work and 11 at home and after changing the taskbar settings to put the start button back on the left I don't even notice switching.
Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)
by seiferteric on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:08PM
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For all the rightful hate 11 gets for ads and tracking crap, once you turn it off it feels... fine. I even don't mind the UI look and really like the new window management, but I don't use windows for anything serious anymore, only gaming so maybe there are other issues.
Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)
by wkat4242 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:33PM
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You can't turn off the tracking crap, this is really the biggest problem IMO.
Same here by the way, I don't use it for anything but gaming and work for the tracking reason.
>And then there's 11 which doesn't really feel like a new version at all to me.
That's because it isn't, Windows 10 and 11 both identify internally as NT10.0.
For some context: Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 identified as NT6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 respectively; Windows 2000 and XP identified as NT5.0 and 5.1 respectively.
95 Good, 98 Bad, 98 SE Good, ME Bad, XP Good, Vista Bad, 7 Good, 8 Bad, 10 Good.
Counting 98 SE as a separate release does seem to me like cherry-picking in order to make the pattern work. Then again, you could also say the cycle started with Windows 98 (putting the whole of that release into the good pile), and you'd still have a remarkably consistent pattern across seven releases. Honestly makes you wonder if there's some deeper cause related to Microsoft's corporate structure or something.