Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by mikepurvis on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:44PM
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Windows 2000 was this for me, but it's true that you could opt out of the bubble gum skin and get a more conventional look from XP if you preferred that.
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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by layer8 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:53PM
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This was still largely true with Windows 7. Starting with Windows 8 the UI story really went to hell.
Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by mikepurvis on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:09PM
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Okay, that's good to know. I was a Mac user from 2007 to 2018, so I missed the entirety of the Windows 7/8 generation— going directly from XP to 10.
Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by layer8 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:25PM
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10 was a bit of an improvement over 8, so at least you skipped the worst with 8. I haven’t had the heart to install 11 yet though.
Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X
by mikepurvis on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:35PM
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Like most filthy casuals, I don't think I'm a particularly "deep" user of the OS. It's basically background chrome for web browsers and terminal windows into WSL and SSH sessions.
To the extent that the OS does anything at all, I'm usually just mildly annoyed, like it signing be out of my work VPN or forgetting how my monitors are arranged. Or eating the battery when it should be sleeping (though I understand there's been some historical finger-pointing between Dell and Microsoft about whose actual fault those issues are).