“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022)

Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by jbm on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:58PM (#35448304)

This is not even a radical viewpoint, which is why the downvotes seem irrational. I have seen "normies" pontificating on how Windows XP was perfect for them and how they have seen no benefit going forward.

If I am being maximally charitable, the benefits that come afterwards are drivers, gaming-related (DirectX) or security-related (which is not a user-facing feature). All of them are nice, but not at the cost that the end user perceives; a slow, painful experience, with an OS that crashes randomly and has weird inconsistencies everywhere.

I have mostly stuck to Ubuntu for desktops (since 8.04) and MacOS for laptops (since Snow Leopard).

(Unrelated, I also notice the busy cursor, which is why I went back to Ubuntu once I was able to get a desktop)

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Re:“My long goodbye to Windows XP” (2022) by Brendinooo on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:49PM (#35448690)

My daily driver computing timeline is something like Win3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, OSX 10.4-10.11, then some combo of Ubuntu/Pop_OS.

I think Windows peaked with XP and macOS with Snow Leopard, with the caveats that Spotlight-like searching in both was primitive/nonexistent at that time and would have been a great improvement, and XP didn't have virtual desktops.

That 2001-2006 era featured systems that had learned a bunch of lessons from 10-20 years of mainstream GUI computing, but hadn't been consumed by feature bloat and a bunch of Internet connectivity and convergence stuff that I'm not interested in.

XP's design was apparently polarizing but I loved it. I was in a modding phase at that point and loved making my own themes.

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