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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by lmm on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:18PM (#35447584)
> None of Microsoft's operating systems were as good as Windows XP

Huh? XP added nothing to 2000 except useless bling.

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by Dwedit on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:51PM (#35448254)
Direct3D 9.0c
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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by wkat4242 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @11:30PM (#35448924)
It was also supported on Win2k. For D3D 10 you have a point though.
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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by IntelMiner on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:19AM (#35450076)
DirectX 10 required Vista

I remember being gifted Shattered Horizon (a DX10 launch title) and thinking "it really doesn't look that great"

Halo 2 for Vista also required DX10 even though the original Xbox was hardware DX 8.1 only

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by sanitycheck on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:53AM (#35451227)
My thoughts exactly! Except I wouldn't call it bling, I'd call it a hideous Fisher Price aesthetic.

I stuck with 2000 as long as I could before gaming (and maybe.. a certain version of Visual Studio?) eventually forced a switch to XP (with the "classic" theme).

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by timbit42 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:58PM (#35458883)
The only XP feature I miss in 2000 is the ability to align icons to a grid.
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