Worst Windows?
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Will Smart last edited by
@SmartAsABrick I was doing tech support pre SP2, I will never forget, as much as I'd like to.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@SmartAsABrick in any event, it was still objectively an improvement over ME
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Will Smartreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc PCMCIA wifi (802.11b, of course) card drivers were something I'd forgotten about until just now. I'm going to work hard to forget them again.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Will Smart last edited by
@SmartAsABrick My recollection is that USB 802.11b was even worse.
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Chon Torresreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc what about Bob?
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Alesandro Ortiz π΅π·π³οΈβπreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc I'll vote hundreds of times, one for each time it crashed while playing Rollercoaster Tycoon at 2 AM in a dark room, briefly turning the CRT monitor black before blasting my eyes with the BSOD, often with glitchy audio stuck in buffer (IIRC). Scared me every time.
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Will Smartreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc the only Windows released this millennium I never daily drove... And I am including Windows CE.
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomialreplied to Russ Garrett last edited by
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
@gsuberland @alyx @ryanc Loved Vista too, however it really was slow as heck. Looked beautiful though, best Windows design in my opinion.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
@gsuberland @russss @ryanc The vote option says Windows 8 though so I go with that. Oh my god was it awful.
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Nazoreplied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
@Natanox @gsuberland @alyx @ryanc Yeah, a lot of growing pains. Windows 7 was basically Vista 2.0 that fixed all those issues though, so no real point to stick with Vista in that particular regard. Still, as you say, service packs did fix up a lot of the issues. Not all, but a lot.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Natanox @gsuberland @ryanc A lot of issues with Vista being slow are rooted in machines being underspecced from the get go.
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alyx (dual-stack)replied to alyx (dual-stack) last edited by
@nazokiyoubinbou @Natanox @gsuberland @ryanc At the time I ran Vista, it was on both a Dell C2D laptop from early '09 and on an AMD Phenom II X4 build, and it was blazing fast on both of them.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to alyx (dual-stack) last edited by [email protected]
@alyx @nazokiyoubinbou @gsuberland @ryanc The kernel still was, objectively, awfully sluggish. If I remember correctly it took about 50-80% longer for any given task on average than XP. Read about it years ago in some magazine who tested it, no idea how though.
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Nazoreplied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
@Natanox @alyx @gsuberland @ryanc Wasn't the biggest problem too much HD usage or something? Like basically just using the HD so much it caused more latency or even tied up throughput at times.
Or was that one of the issues that got fixed?
It has been too long. I don't remember much anymore.
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mr_daemonreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc Prior to XP and Luna, the late Whistler betas had a theme called Watercolor that was honestly just gorgeous. It's disappearance is the most egregious thing.
This is what they took from us. I mean look at it. It's so clean and tasteful, with just the right amount of playful and whimsy. An ideal evolution from Windows 2000. Also came in green IIRC, but I may be conflating with the fan remake that came out years later.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Nazo last edited by
@nazokiyoubinbou @alyx @gsuberland @ryanc Could be. Although it was the time when SSDs became a thing so I'm sure there also was a lot of marketing nonsense flying around.
Perhaps I got a good memory of Vista due to the 64gb SSD I got relatively early, lol. Didn't even had TRIM yet.
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1010Gregreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc Vista. Even with the recommended specs, it still ran like ass. I've tuned a lot of that out, but I vaguely recall needing to install a RAM upgrade to a fleet six months after deployment because the recommended specs weren't cutting it. My personal experience with WinME was fine, ran it for like two years in college. Win8 would be my runner up. I'm not running a tablet, why should I have to deal with this touch-first crap?
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Will Smart last edited by
@SmartAsABrick oh my gods do I even want to know?