Peak Windows?

[mainframed767@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc SE

Sorry should've been clearer

[vstab@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc Windows Me (signed: a Linux guy)
Seriously though: Windows server 2008 r3

[grs@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc Y'all say XPSP3, but in your heart of hearts, Win2K was the absolute best.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@bitsnpieces Windows XP was the replacement after they took Windows ME out back and shot it, there was no fixing it.

[lara@metalhead.club]

@ryanc tough choice between XP and 7 for me.

[balterwenjamin42@mastodon.social]

@ryanc Can't believe XP is getting so much love, never worked for me.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@balterwenjamin42 it was shit until service pack 2, then was fine

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@Lara windows 7 edges out XP SP3 for me

[faux@tech.lgbt]

@electric_gumball @ryanc the company I was working with at the time refused to go to vista, but needed the ram, so we're running a mix of xp and xp64. These two things are much less alike than their IT department was hoping for.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@faux @electric_gumball I forgot about the RAM limit, lol.

[bieberium@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc I belong to the people who have a sweet spot for Win Me occasionally

[dntlookbehindu@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc I was also making a terrible joke

[raven667@hachyderm.io]

@FritzAdalis @ryanc @catsalad I really appreciated the attempt in Win8-10 to refactor all the brittle quirky control panels and wizards, which were sprinkled everywhere and frozen in amber, with a more thoughtfully organized and maintained settings app. Refactoring conhost/MS Terminal, including OpenSSH, WSL/WSA, winget and the Store update infrastructure, all made Windows a more useful and reliable OS, at least coming from Linux/MacOS UNIX. All squandered for ads/AI BS/scammy store apps.

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@raven667 @ryanc @catsalad
Yeah, the base of Windows has arguably kept improving. Windows 10 even had lower system requirements than Win7 iirc. Still ruined it.

[solsec@mastodon.social]

@ryanc Glad you didn't even mention Vista or 8.

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@SoLSec "bad opinions" lol

[linux_in_a_bit@infosec.exchange]

@ryanc
ReactOS :blobcat3c:

[leeloo@techhub.social]

@FritzAdalis @raven667 @ryanc @catsalad
Did you ever try it?

I have heard the lower system requirements than the previous version claim about pretty much every version of Windows back to Windows 98 being less demanding than Windows 95.

If there is any truth to it, Windows 10 should run pretty much infinitely fast on a 386sx with 4MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive (split into two partitions, of course, because FAT16 can only handle 32 MB).