Worst Windows?
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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 🇺🇦🇵🇸replied 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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@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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@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?
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FishermansEnemy 「漁師の敵」 :donor:replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc having had to support Windows in all its flavours since 3.1 (I briefly had to use, but not support 2) I have to say Windows 8. ME was bad, but 8 was a horror show.
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@mr_daemon @ryanc i've seen this in linux somewhere, iirc.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to F4GRX Sébastien last edited by
@f4grx @mr_daemon yeah, same, I'm certain I saw a Linux window manager frame based on this
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Scott Smallreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc I wish I could vote on this twice: Windows ME for its stability issues, and Windows 11 for all the crapware it forces on you.
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sid77replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc @f4grx @mr_daemon Ahaha, same. I remember this theme from some Linux WM
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Scott Small last edited by
@smallsco I did add a second poll for extra Windows ME votes...